Chicago Italian Beef Sandwich
Ingredients
- 4 pounds top round with fat cap
 - 3 tablespoons Italian seasoning
 - 2 tablespoons salt
 - 2 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
 - 1 cup jarred red sweet peppers
 
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Instructions
- Rub meat with dry ingredients, cover and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.
 - Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.
 - 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 135 degrees F 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.
 
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