Ground Beef Stromboli Sandwich Recipe – Stromboli on Hoagie Recipe

Our Ground Beef Stromboli Sandwich Recipe creates cheesy, beefy and perfect meal. This Stromboli recipe starts with a hamburger sauce, and we serve it on a hoagie.

These warm sandwiches make a great field meal for farmers. Or double the recipe and feed a hungry group of kids ready to hit the baseball or football field.

Ground Beef Stromboli Sandwich Recipe

This easiest Stromboli recipe using group beef comes from our dear friend, Jackie. She included this recipe in a cookbook she gave me for my wedding.

The cookbook includes many of her family’s favorite recipes, and the recipe cards are handwritten and organized by meal type. I treasure this gift and highly recommend that you create a recipe book like this as a gift for someone in your life.

Jackie even noted that these warm sandwiches are great for the field, meaning they are a farmer-approved harvest meal. We are always searching for new recipes to fix during the busy seasons – spring and fall – on the farm.

Stromboli on Hoagie Recipe

What makes this easy Stromboli recipe different is that it is served on a hoagie bun instead of having to mess with dough. It doesn’t get much easier than that.

The secret to making this particular hamburger Stromboli so delicious is that the hoagie bun is coated with a garlic butter before filling it with the meat sauce which I am calling Stromboli Joes.

This means these sandwiches are more like a garlic bread stuffed with a beefy filling, and topped with gooey, melty cheese. The Stromboli Joes filling is made up of hamburger cooked with ketchup and tomato sauce and spices to make it saucy like a sloppy joe.

Our Favorite Sloppy Joe Recipes

We love sloppy joes in our family, and we have a variety of our favorite recipes on the blog. Check out some of our favorites:

• Classic Sloppy Joes
• French Onion Joes
• Frisco Melt Sloppy Joes
• Sloppy Joes with Ketchup

Hamburger Stromboli Recipe with Oregano

You should be able to find most of the ingredients for this Ground Beef Stromboli Sandwich recipe already in your pantry or refrigerator.

We typically use ground beef but you could easily use pork sausage or use half of each. The sausage would definitely add more flavor to the sandwiches.

The seasonings to flavor the Stromboli joes are paprika, ground oregano and fennel seed, which is completely optional. I don’t keep fennel seed on hand, so I omit it typically. The ground oregano gives the hamburger Stromboli a flavor similar to your favorite pizza sauce.

Beef Stromboli Ingredient List

• Ground Beef (or pork sausage)
• Onion, chopped
• Tomato Sauce
• Ketchup
• Grated Parmesan Cheese
• Paprika
• Ground Oregano
• Fennel Seed (optional)
• Hoagie Buns
• Mozzarella Cheese, sliced
• Butter
• Garlic Powder

How to Make Stromboli with a Hoagie Bun

Step by Step Instructions

1. Cook beef and onion over medium heat; drain if needed.
2. Add ketchup, pizza sauce, grated Parmesan cheese, paprika, ground oregano and fennel seed (optional). Simmer to thicken.
3. Mix softened butter and garlic powder, spread generously on both sides of hoagie buns.
4. Fill each hoagie bun with Stromboli joe mixture. Top with sliced mozzarella cheese.
5. Wrap in foil, and heat for 15 minutes in a 350 degree oven or until cheese is melted.

For the full ingredient amounts and instructions for ground beef Stromboli, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post. 

Recipe FAQs

• Be sure to start with softened butter. Mix the butter with the garlic powder by hand or use a mixer to cream it together. Save any extra and use it on steak or make your own garlic bread.
• Ground beef or ground pork sausage can be used. Ground pork sausage will have more spice and flavor.
• Dried minced onion works great if you don’t have a fresh onion on hand.
• For the grated Parmesan cheese, go ahead and use the kind in the green container.
• Fennel seed can be omitted, if desired.
• Provolone cheese would be a great substitute for mozzarella cheese.  Shredded works too instead of sliced, if needed.
• These are perfect for taking to the fields or for eating on the go.
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Recipe Variations

• Use a variety of Italian seasonings instead of oregano such as basil, rosemary, thyme, etc.
• Add pepperoni to the sandwiches.
• Sauté finely chopped veggies such as green bell pepper or mushrooms with the meat.

What do you eat Stromboli with?

Stromboli have cheese, meat and bread. I recommend serving Stromboli with a green vegetable such as a green salad or broccoli. It’s also great with a side of pineapple and cottage cheese or applesauce.

Field Meals for Farmers

Looking for some harvest meal ideas? Check out these 10 easy farmer approved tractor meals.

1. Tuna Salad Coneys
2. Easy Fried Chicken Sandwich 
3. Spanish Hot Dog Sauce
4. Bologna Salad
5. Vintage Barbecue Burgers
6. Cheeseburger Turnovers
7. French Onion Sliders
8. Oven Pulled Pork
9. Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Beef 
10. Stroganoff Loose Meat Sandwiches