Chicago Italian Beef

  3.5 – 2 reviews  
Level: Intermediate
Total: 2 days 3 hr 30 min
Active: 1 hr
Yield: 1 sandwich
Level: Intermediate
Total: 2 days 3 hr 30 min
Active: 1 hr
Yield: 1 sandwich

Ingredients

  1. Baguette (if I have to tell you what kind of bread to use, you probably shouldn’t be making this sandwich)
  2. Roast and Beef Juice, recipe follows
  3. 3 Sweet Peppers, recipe follows
  4. Giardiniera, recipe follows
  5. 1 cup Italian seasoning
  6. 1 cup fine sea salt
  7. 1/3 cup ground black pepper
  8. 1/4 cup granulated garlic
  9. 1/4 cup granulated onion
  10. 1/4 cup dried oregano
  11. One 1 1/2- to 2-pound sirloin roast
  12. 1/4 cup olive oil
  13. Beef base, if needed
  14. 1 green bell pepper
  15. Extra-virgin olive oil, for cooking
  16. Salt and pepper
  17. 3 cups white vinegar
  18. 3 tablespoons fine sea salt
  19. 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  20. 2 tablespoons oregano
  21. 2 1/2 tablespoons crushed red pepper
  22. 2 teaspoons black pepper
  23. 2 carrots
  24. 2 stalks celery
  25. 2 yellow onions
  26. 2 green bell peppers
  27. 2 red bell peppers
  28. 2 jalapenos
  29. 1 serrano pepper
  30. 1 cup olive oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Cut bread two-thirds of the way through. Toast bread in oven until crispy on outside.
  3. Drop sliced Roast into simmering Beef Juice. Jam beef in baguette. Dip sammich in beef juice pot.
  4. Drop Sweet Peppers into Beef Juice to get hot and wet.
  5. Add Giardiniera to sammich. Drape peppers across the beef.
  6. Serve with more Beef Juice on the side.
  7. Mix together the Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, granulated garlic and onion and oregano in a bowl until combined.
  8. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  9. Cover roast with spice mix (you will have some spice mix left over). Drizzle olive oil over top of roast. Place roast on a rack with water in the bottom of the pan (don’t let the water touch the meat). Roast until the internal temperature registers 118 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, about 1 hour. Let roast cool. Reserve the juice.
  10. Thin-slice roast, as thin as you can. Can’t slice thin? You are screwed. Or you can buy your chef friend a six-pack and she will do it for you. Save beef scraps!
  11. Portion roast slices into 5- to 7-ounce balls.
  12. Pour all the extra juice and beef scraps in a pot. If there’s not enough juice, add some beef base and some water. Taste. Make sure it’s not too salty. Simmer for 1 hour, strain and put juice back on to simmer.
  13. Split pepper in half, then clean white membrane out of it. Cut halves into thirds.
  14. Heat saute pan on high heat. Once hot, add olive oil. Drop in peppers skin-side down. Add a pinch of salt and pepper. Let pepper blister and char, then flip peppers and cook for another 2 minutes. Turn heat off and let peppers rest.
  15. Put the vinegar, salt, garlic, oregano, crushed red pepper, black pepper and 2 cups cold water into a 4-quart container and stir until the salt has dissolved.
  16. Cut carrots, celery, onions, green peppers and red peppers into 1/3-inch uniform dice.
  17. Thinly slice jalapenos and serrano (approximately 1/8-inch thick).
  18. Place cut veggies into brine and stir well until all ingredients are combined.
  19. Cover and refrigerate for 2 days. Stir in olive oil.

Reviews

Megan Howard
#3 tells how to cook the beef.. just saying;)

Kelli Wong
I would love to try this recipe but there is no recipe to cook the beef. Everything else is there but to quote Wendy’s “Wheres The Beef?”

 

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