How To Make A Crockpot French Dip Sandwich

A French dip sandwich is a hot sandwich made with thinly sliced roast meat, served on a baguette or French bread. It is normally served with the beef juices from the cooking process or with beef broth. This sandwich often comes with some broth or gravy on the side, although the original recipe for French dip sandwiches did not call for that.

Beef is not the only meat you can use to make this snack but it is the most popular choice. The French roll is dipped into the hot meat juices and then the sandwich is put together and served wet. It can also be double dipped. Spicy mustard is the condiment of choice with French dip sandwiches.

How This Snack Originated

There are two different restaurants in Los Angeles, California, claiming to be the birthplace of this succulent snack. One is the Cole's Pacific Electric Buffet and the other is The Original.

Both The Original and Cole's Pacific Electric Buffet have been in business since 1908 although Cole's claimed they invented the recipe in 1908 and the other restaurant gives 1918 as its birth date. Nobody knows for sure which of these restaurants invented the recipe.

Today, a lot of different diners, restaurants, and fast food chains serve this recipe. Sometimes the gravy comes on the side and sometimes the sandwich is already dipped.

Crockpot French Dip Sandwich Recipe

Slow cookers are wonderful for making recipes like this because you can cook a beef roast to perfection in there, until it is really succulent and literally falling apart. When you roast meat you run the risk of overcooking it and ending up with dried out meat but crockpot cooking is a moist cooking method so your beef is sure to remain juicy and delicious.

Put a lean beef roast in your crockpot with a can of beef consomme, a can of water, a package of Italian dressing mix and a package of au jus sauce mix. Cook on low for about nine hours. When the meat is done, it will fall apart easily. Shred the meat and pour the gravy into a serving bowl or individual gravy boats. Serve the beef on crusty rolls and dip them in the gravy.

You can serve spicy mustard with this snack if you want to and you might also like to serve a salad on the side or some kind of vegetable dish, to make it more filling. It is nice just served by itself though and you can enjoy this recipe for lunch, supper or as a meaty snack any time you fancy something hot and delicious.

Try it with the sauce on the side and try it with the sandwich already dipped. The results are slightly different although if you are making this for someone else it might be better to serve the gravy on the side so they can serve themselves and only take as much as they like.

One of the best ways to make a gravy recipe is to cook the meat in broth or liquid and then just thicken the resulting liquid up, to make a wonderful beef, chicken or turkey gravy recipe.

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