Chicago Style Italian Beef Sandwich
July 25th, 2010 | 453 views | by firefly
One thing about Chicago that is always good is Italian Beef, well next to Deep Dish Pizza, right?!.
And this recipe comes so close to the original one they do in restaurants.
Chicago Style Italian Beef Sandwich
Ingredients:
- 4 pounds top round with fat cap
- 3 tablespoons Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoons salt
- 1 tablespoons fresh cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon red chili flakes
- 3 tablespoons bacon fat, or canola oil
- 3 yellow onions, chopped
- 1 cup garlic, whole cloves
- 1/2 cup red wine
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup beef stock
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 sourdough baguette rolls halved, toasted
- 1 cup chopped giardiniera vinaigrette vegetables (optional)
- 1 cup jarred red sweet peppers (optional)
- Mozzarella cheese, or American white (or yellow) cheese melted (optional)
Directions:
Rub meat with dry ingredients, cover and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.
Preheat oven to 275F.
Add meat to a roasting pan with bacon fat, add onions and garlic, saute for 15 minutes, deglaze with wine, and add Worcestershire sauce, beef stock and bay leaves.
Place roasting pan in the oven and cook for 3 hours, uncovered, or until an instant-read thermometer registers 135F in center. Remove, let cool, then slice very thin.
Cool broth in roasting pan and remove the fat that rises to the top. Strain.
Reheat the broth, and add the sliced meat. Place some meat on each toasted roll, ladle with some broth and top with giardiniera vegetables and red peppers.
Or if you are like me add some cheese to it. I love to open the toasted roll, melt mozzarella or American white cheese (yellow is good too) and add meat and broth to it.
It doesn’t get any yummier than that!
ENJOY!!!
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Although no food sounds that great right now, this looks yummy. Please tell me you’ll add this to my tasty tuesdays bloghop next week??
I definitely will
love your bloghop I always get great ideas, and find so many cool new recipes 
I’ll have to try this. I’m a native Chicagoan and love Italian beef. I tried a recipe that I blogged about awhile back, but it did not have the seasonings right to really taste like Italian beef. It’s all about the seasoning.
OH, I know. If the seasoning is not right the taste will definitely be off. The original recipe does use a bit more salt and pepper than I do. But it seemed just a bit too salty for me so I cut it in half.
Let me know how you like it if you try it
Love these seasonings and method…My boys would love this:)
That is too naughty – I love it!
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Thank you so much
This looks really great! I love the seasonings, I can’t wait to try it! Thanks for the recipe!
Amy time
hope you like it 
That sounds fantastic – what a great recipe. I’m looking forward to giving it a try.
I love this recipe, let me know how you like it if you try it
Thanks so much for joining in the bloghop for tasty tuesdays. Can’t wait to try this one.
Anytime
Oh yummy!!!! Great job my dear.
Thank you girlie
I love this recipe, it was so good!
This is one of my hubby’s faves, but since we left Chicago he has had to “suffer” through the sandwiches downstate. I will have to try this. I have never made mine by slicing. I wonder if he would like that better than shredding? Thanks for posting!
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