Meatball Sub Sandwich – Contemporary Off The Grid

These meatball sub sandwiches are a super-easy, low-effort crowd-pleaser. Meatballs, marinara sauce, cheese, and hoagie rolls—that’s it! Good for a first-night tenting dinner or straightforward scorching lunch.

These meatball subs are a surefire hit and make the proper one-pot dinner on your first evening at camp. You’ll be able to prep do-it-yourself meatballs forward of time, or save your self the trouble and seize a bag of frozen ones. 

Both approach, the sauce comes collectively in minutes with a easy jar of marinara, so you may spend much less time cooking and extra time settling into camp.

As soon as the meatballs are simmering, all that’s left is to line the buns with cheese, ladle in some meatballs and sauce, and dinner is completed! This consolation meals basic is flavorful, filling, quick, and retains cleanup to a minimal.

Tenting with a toddler and child means we’re at all times searching for a straightforward win at mealtime. We made these meatball sub sandwiches for lunch at Trillium Lake and for a first-night dinner at Large River Campground this summer season. Examined within the subject and kid-approved, these have positively earned a spot on our future tenting journey menus!

-Megan & Michael

Pre-trip Prep

• When you’re making your meatballs from scratch, contemplate freezing them when you’re utilizing a cooler. They’ll hold their form higher and depend in direction of your ice ratio within the cooler. The meatballs will start to defrost earlier than your meal, after which you may simply add them into the sauce to warmth them up. 
• When you purchased a 25-oz jar of sauce, contemplate dividing it at residence right into a mason jar so that you don’t have a half-used jar on the campsite (or, use the opposite half as sauce for camp pizza one other evening—that’s what we did!).

Ideas for making this tenting

•  Meatball subs normally have cheese melted on high, however with out an oven to toast them, the cheese gained’t soften sufficient at camp. So, we place the cheese on the rolls first after which high with the new meatballs and sauce so the cheese will get good and melty. We topped them with some grated parmesan.
•  We love the collapsible pot pictured above—it was sufficiently big to make this recipe for our household of 4, and the marinara sauce didn’t stain it in any respect.

Ingredient Substitutions and Notes

• If in case you have the bandwidth, you may make the meatballs forward of time from scratch (our recipe is included under) and freeze them. However shopping for store-bought frozen meatballs turns this meal right into a zero-prep, heat-and-eat winner. 
• A 25-oz jar of marinara sauce is an excessive amount of sauce. Both divide it at residence, or purchase a jar of pizza sauce (14 oz) as an alternative.
• Completely as much as your desire, however shredded mozzarella or slices of provolone or American cheese are all nice choices. 
• High-sliced hoagie rolls are vastly superior to side-sliced, if you’ll find them (Dealer Joes had the this summer season). They arise on their very own and are much less liable to splitting.
• To make this meal vegan-friendly, use store-bought meatless frozen meatballs (we like those from Dealer Joes) and swap out the cheese on your favourite vegan cheese different.