COBY'S POT ROAST FRENCH DIP
SANDWICHES
 
The First Day:

3.5 lbs top round roast
6 cloves garlic, cut into slivers
Grillmaster steak seasoning
1 large non-stick pot to sear meat
3 tablespoons cooking oil or olive oil
1 pkg onion soup mix
2-3 cup baby carrots
roasting pan (just big enough to fit around roast and carrots
tinfoil (to wrap up roast and carrots and place in fridge to make french dips the next day)
for the next day:
3 pkgs Au-Jus mix
soft hoagie rolls - 1 pkg (depends on how many people)
Parmesan cheese
butter

Serve with:

Caesar salad and Roma tomatoes
hot carrots
beverage

The First Day:

Preheat Oven to 500°F.

Rinse off roast with water and pat dry with paper towels.

Make a deep cut in the roast and insert a sliver of garlic into the slit. Make these cuts all over the roast, inserting a garlic sliver in to each slit. Rub the roast all over with the steak seasoning.

Add oil to the non-stick pot and place roast in pot. Sear the roast on medium-high heat on all sides and ends until golden brown.

This should only take about 3-4 minutes at the most. Turn off burner.

Place contents of the onion soup mix in the roasting pan with 3 cups of water. If possible, place the roast fat side up and turn over in the soup mix a few times to get pieces of the onion to stick on to the roast. Add the carrots around the roast and cover with roasting pan lid.

Place in the oven and set the timer for 7 minutes per pound. In this case, a 3.5 lb roast will take 24.5 minutes to make it medium rare - crisp on the outside and pink in the middle.

After the timer goes off, turn off the oven and don't open the oven door. Let the roast sit in there for another 2 hours, then remove the roast from the oven and let the meat cool.

Remove carrots and roast and place in foil in your fridge. Pour the pan drippings into a bowl and cover, put in refrigerator.

The Following Day:

Go for a nice brisk walk in the cool air to build up your hunger for these hot robust sandwiches!

Turn the oven to Broil. Cut roast into very thin slices. Remove roast beef drippings from refrigerator and skim off fat. Use the remaining liquid as part of the liquid used when preparing the Au-Jus packages according to package directions (or make your own beef gravy).

Use a good sized pot for Au-Jus and to hold all the beef slices. Add sliced roast beef to Au-Jus and let simmer for about 1/2 hour. During this time, slice open hoagie rolls, spread butter on rolls and sprinkle Parmesan cheese on rolls. Place rolls on cookie sheet on broil in hot oven and watch carefully as the butter starts to bubble and the cheese just starts to turn golden brown. Pull them out of the oven immediately when this starts to happen. Turn off oven. Turn off stove.

Add as much roast beef as desired to the hoagie rolls, slicing them at a diagonal. Warm up carrots in the microwave. Pour some of the Au-Jus into a mug or cup and dip your sandwich in the Au-Jus and Enjoy!

Submitted by: Coby

Since microwave ovens vary in power, you may need to adjust your cooking time.

recipe reviews
Coby's Pot Roast French Dip Sandwiches
 #34450
 Kim Schafer (New York) says:
delicious. I couldn't believe that would really be enuf cooking time. We ate the sandwiches that same night and loved it!
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 Phyllis (Virginia) says:
This is excellent. Once I placed the hot beef on the Hoagie Roll - I added a slice of Swiss Cheese. The heat from the beef will make it melt... then dip in the Au Jus before each bite... Pure heaven!!!!
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 Stephanie (Maine) says:
OMG. We were amazed w/ the taste - couldn't be better.
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 Coby (Washington) says:
OMG! What a nice surprise to see positive responses on my French Dip Sandwich recipe :) Love you guys! I didn't know anyone had left comments, til I checked today :) I have more to share, I have a homemade Cheese Soup, that I simply cant find my recipe for - will have to "wing it"...I make it every year around my Aunt's BD Dec 21st. She has since past on, but I make it in memory of her. I should have checked a while ago. Thanks Everyone and I hope that your Holiday Season is going GREAT and will be filled with lots of great homemade recipes :)
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 Tim (Arizona) says:
I made this in February for a family get together for my sons birthday. Everyone said they loved it, and I know I did, but when people say they love it that much you might think that they are just going over the top to be nice. That wasn't the case because now everytime I offer to bring something to a get together they always want me to bring those AMAZING french dip sandwiches. I followed the recipe exactly.
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 Jamie says:
This is a huge family favorite! I can not say enough good things about it. Highly recommend.
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 Jamie Baker (Missouri) says:
I have been making this recipe for years and it NEVER disappoints!! It's a family favorite that gets requested often and especially for the holidays. In fact, I have it baking in the oven now :)

 

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