Italian Submarine Sandwiches with Homemade Sub Sauce
Jul 02, 2012, Updated Jun 18, 2024
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These simple Italian submarine sandwiches with homemade sub sauce are perfect for summer. The tangy submarine dressing is easy to make and big on flavor.
Sandwich, Submarine, or Hoagie?
No matter what you call it, this Italian classic is needed in your recipe repertoire. And I’ll tell you how to make sub sauce that rivals your local sub shop.
Italian sandwiches are perfect for the beach, summer picnics, game days, and more.
I used a selection of delicious Italian meats, roasted red peppers, spicy baby arugula, homemade Italian sub dressing, and provolone cheese.
Submarine Dressing Recipe
Homemade sub sauce is easy to make and adds a nice burst of Italian herb flavor to your sandwiches.
Here’s what you’ll need to make the best sandwich sauce.
- red wine vinegar
- Dijon mustard
- dried Italian seasoning
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup olive oil
Combine all ingredients except olive oil. Whisk together, then slowly whisk in olive oil until combined. Adjust seasonings to taste and store them in the refrigerator.
You can also double this sub sauce and store it refrigerated in a Mason jar. Just give it a good shake before drizzling over your sub!
How To Make A Homemade Submarine
Gather some crusty Italian rolls and savory Italian meats to make these homemade subs. I went with prosciutto, sweet sopressata and hot capicola.
Drizzle the submarine dressing on the rolls, then pile high with meat, roasted red peppers, spicy baby arugula, and provolone cheese.
These subs, and especially the homemade sub sauce, were hands-down outstanding!
If you need to find me the rest of the summer, I will be lounging on my back porch eating this sandwich on repeat.
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Italian Submarine Sandwiches with Homemade Sub Sauce
Ingredients
For the sandwiches
- 4 small small crusty Italian rolls, split
- 1/4 pound prosciutto , thinly sliced
- 1/4 pound sweet sopressata , thinly sliced
- 1/4 pound hot capicola , thinly sliced
- 1/4 pound provoline cheese, thinly sliced
- 4 slices roasted red peppers, from a jar, found in the Italian section of the grocery store
- 1 cup baby arugula
- Homemade sub sauce, see below
For homemade sub sauce:
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons dried Italian seasoning
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
For sandwiches:
- Divide meat, cheese, peppers and arugula between the four rolls.
- Drizzle with homemade sub sauce and enjoy! If your subs will not be eaten right away, wait to add the sub sauce until right before you plan on eating them.
For Sub Sauce:
- Combine all ingredients except olive oil. Whisk together and then slowly whisk in olive oil until combined.
- Adjust seasonings to taste and store in refrigerator.
Notes
- Prosciutto is a salty, very thinly sliced Italian ham.
- Sweet sopressata is a dry-cured salami.
- Hot capicola is a spicy cooked or dried pork meat.
my stomach is growling. this looks phenomenal. give me!
Oh my gosh this sandwich looks amazing!
Where did you find those sub rolls?
I found mine right by the deli counter. They have a bunch of different little rolls. You can also find small rolls in the bakery section.
Drooooool- a good sub sauce truly MAKES a sub. Perfect!
great sandwiches and we were enjoying the lighting bugs tonight 🙂
Lighting bugs are my favorite part of summer 🙂
How can anyone resist any mini-anything?? These look scrumptious!
Looks awesome darlin!! I’ll take 2 please. 🙂
I hope you had a good 4th!
Fantastic looking rolls, perfect for a picnic or a day at the beach!!
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