Looking for a easy and flavorful weeknight meal? Get your slow cooker or Dutch oven out for this Best Ever French Dip Sandwich.
Do you love a quick meal that you can toss into the slow cooker and just serve when you get home from work?
If your house is chaotic like ours, you’re gonna love this quick meal! Throw it in the slow cooker and fix sandwiches when you get back home! This truly is the Best Ever French Dip Sandwich. Easy to make and so flavorful!
I’m not a slow cooker type of girl. I’m just not. So I gave you directions for this amazing sandwich in either a Dutch oven or your slow cooker. Because if you’re like me, you’re slow cooker is down in the basement, collecting inches of dust. And your expensive Staub Dutch oven is perfectly displayed at all times on the center of your cook stove. And this one is well worth every penny! But either way, you’ve got directions to get this amazing Best Ever French Dip Sandwich made. It’s a recipe you’re gonna want to keep.
After you’ve made dinner, you might want to consider dessert. Who doesn’t love a great, simple dessert?!
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Best Ever French Dip Sandwich
Ingredients
- 3-4 pound beef chuck roast
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 6-8 medium yellow onions sliced
- 1 packet beefy onion soup mix
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- ground black pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon "Better than Bouillon" beef base
- 2 cups apple cider
- 6-8 sub rolls
- 12-14 slices of cheese Gouda, pepper-jack, or cheddar
Instructions
- Dutch oven directions:
- Heat the olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium to high heat. Sear the roast on all sides, browning it. Use a pair of tongs to turn the roast.
- Place the sliced onions in the pot, around the roast. Sprinkle the roast with seasonings. Add the apple cider and cook in a preheated 350 degree F oven for about 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Baste the meat with the juices occasionally. Or until the meat is tender.
- Place the roast on a cutting board and slice it thinly. Place the sliced meat back into the juices.
- Turn the oven up to 375 degrees F. Place your rolls in the oven for 5-6 minutes to make them crunchy. Slice the rolls and place the bottoms on a half sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Place a layer of meat on the bottom, then onions and drizzle with a little au jus. Top each sandwich with several slices of cheese. Place the sandwiches in the preheated oven for 5-7 minutes, or until the cheese is melted. Place the top of the sub roll on and enjoy. Dip in remaining au jus.
- Slow cooker directions:
- Heat the olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium to high heat. Sear the roast on all sides, browning it. Use a pair of tongs to turn the roast.
- Put the browned roast in the crockpot. Place the sliced onions in the pot, around the roast. Sprinkle the roast with seasonings. Add the apple cider and cook on low for about 5-6 hours or until the meat is tender.
- Place the roast on a cutting board and slice it thinly. Place the sliced meat back into the juices.
- Turn the oven to 375 degrees F. Place your rolls in the oven to make them crunchy. Slice the rolls and place the bottoms on a half sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Place a layer of meat on the bottom, then onions and drizzle with a little au jus. Top each sandwich with several slices of cheese. Place the sandwiches in the preheated oven for 5-7 minutes, or until the cheese is melted. Place the top of the sub roll on and enjoy. Dip in remaining au jus.
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What an amazing looking sandwich, I’m going to see if I can get my loving, beautiful wife to make this for me.
The BEST dip sandwich recipe I ever made! I think it’s the apple cider and soup mix…we LOVED them and will be making these again, they are now a family favorite!