A delicious alternative to classic cranberry sauce is this simple, four-ingredient cranberry orange relish. If your family loves all things cranberry, serve it in place of or in addition to cranberry sauce at your next holiday feast. Before serving, this fresh cranberry relish can be prepared ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. The majority of my family will only eat this relish!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 20 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 sandwiches |
Ingredients
- 10 ounces sliced deli turkey meat
- 1 cup sauerkraut, drained
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 4 slices marble rye bread
- 4 slices Swiss cheese
- 4 tablespoons Thousand Island dressing, or to taste
Instructions
- Place turkey onto a microwave-safe plate, and place sauerkraut into a microwave-safe bowl. Warm separately in the microwave for 30 seconds each.
- Spread butter generously onto one side of each rye bread slice. Place bread onto a work surface with the buttered sides facing down. Spread Thousand Island dressing on the top of each slice.
- Divide warmed sauerkraut between two slices of bread. Top those slices with 1/2 of the turkey, then 1/2 of the Swiss cheese. Flip the remaining two bread slices over and place on top to create sandwiches.
- Heat a large skillet over medium-low heat. Place sandwiches into the hot skillet and cook until bread is lightly browned and cheese is melted, about 3 minutes per side.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 760 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 49 g |
| Cholesterol | 150 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 45 g |
| Saturated Fat | 21 g |
| Sodium | 3088 mg |
| Sugars | 11 g |
| Fat | 44 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Sandwich was great!! Excellent step to heat Turkey & sauerkraut first.
Delicious! One to save, and make again and again! Not just for Thanksgiving leftovers. 🙂 I used a panini grill and it was great, just messy. 🙂
I’m not a big reuben fan, but my husband is. I really liked this and he had seconds, which means he liked it too! This recipe is a keeper!
I’ve been craving a Reuben during the pandemic, so I was happy to run across this recipe! (I don’t know why it hadn’t dawned on me to make my own!) Yom!
I love a nice grilled sandwich, and this one is by far one of my favorites. Keep this on stand by for a quick tasty meal. Love it!
I played with it a little bit and toasted the buttered (light) rye bread in my toaster oven but kept everything else true to the recipe other than that. I set it off with some fresh fruit (sliced banana, pineapple, and Mandarin orange slices) and I added a homemade broccoli cheddar soup.
Great recipe I added a little corned beef and it turned out great!
So delicious! I love turkey Ruebens, and this is a great recipe.
We didn’t change a thing, and found this to be a delicious sandwich. It went together quickly, and we can see that in the future it would be possible to make all sorts of adjustments. (It’s so unfair to change the recipe the first time you make it, then rate it.)
It’s absolutely awesome! I do not have swiss cheese so I substitute it American cheese, so delicious! I have save this recipe and I will make it over and over again and I would like to share it with my friends. It’s so easy it’s so quick I don’t even have to look at the recipe anymore, it’s so easy to remember and so simple.
Love it! I made it with turkey for me and pastrami for my guy. He now wants it in the regular “meal rotation” and said he would order it at a restaurant – which is his highest food compliment. Thank you! (PS: He would have loved it with turkey, too. 😉
Delicious!! My picky teenager asked for 3 of these sandwiches 2 days in a row for dinner.
Easy and delicious! We used Russian dressing. Was excellent.
Even if you don’t like sauerkraut, this is still an awesome recipe. The sharp sauerkraut flavor is tempered by the other flavors.
I had regular rye seedless bread, leftover Thanksgiving turkey and no Swiss cheese but I did have Muenster and used that instead. This made a great grilled Reuben sandwich!! Loved it!
I never cared for Rubens, but this with turkey is delicious. With that said; I had leftover turkey breast slices, so made the sandwiches with that. I didn’t purchase store-bought Thousand Isle dressing or Russian dressing, so made a spread with mayo, catsup and a little sweet relish. That was close to the Thousand Isle taste. I did use swirled/marbled rye and the Swiss cheese. (photos). recommend this.
the thousand island salad dressing was a bit two much for me
It was ok, but we used leftover turkey instead of deli turkey so I think that may have made a big difference in the sandwich. I think using deli turkey you’d taste the layers better. We did make some personal preference changes by using pumpernickel instead of the marble rye & also used honey dijon dressing because we don’t like thousand island even on regular reubens. I didn’t notice we were to use 2 slices of swiss cheese per sandwich which I think would’ve helped. We’ll make again & maybe even try a honey mustard horseradish combination for the dressing.
This was delicious! I followed the recipe as written and the sandwiches were perfect. My husband raved all evening about how good they were. I will definitely be making these again soon.
I am no fan of corned beef, I saw this recipe a few days ago and thought about trying it. Then I stopped at a subway on the day they started their ruben and got a turkey ruben, well needless to say the ingredients are in my fridge to make more…. I did not expect sauerkraut and thousand island dressing to pair so well on a sandwich
This made an excellent lunch! My bread must have been smaller than called for – even with only 3 ounces turkey per sandwich, it was THICK! The only change I will make next time is to decrease the turkey both so it heats completely through, and so that all the flavors come through. We picked about 1/2 the turkey off before we could taste the combination of flavors.