the traditional Reuben spliced with a Cuban
As far as sandwiches go the Reuben is king in our book. Packed with pastrami, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, pickles and a Russian style sauce on rye it’s a rich, salty and spicy flavour bomb. Another popular sanga is the Cuban which piles on pork, ham, cheese, mustard and pickles, all ingredients that work with those found in a Reuben… so why not combine the two!
The pastrami recipe below is for our oyster blade pastrami however shortrib or brisket would work just as well. If you can’t find Jarlsberg then Swiss is fine and there’s room to experiment with different styles of bread and changing up the ingredients in the Russian sauce.
ingredients
- pulled pork
- pastrami
- ham
- Jarlsberg cheese
- pickle slices
- sauerkraut
- Sourdough or Rye bread
- yellow American mustard
- Russian style sauce…
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp hot sauce
- 1 tsp horseradish
- 2 tsp lemon juice
directions
- Butter 1 side of 3 pieces of bread. Place the buttered sides face down on your sandwich press and add a slice of cheese on top of 2 of the slices. Toast until brown and the cheese has melted.
- Build the sandwich by adding the American mustard over one of the cheese toast slices. From there add the pickles, pork and ham slices.
- Place the other bread slice with cheese on top of the ham slices, cheese facing up. Add more pickles followed by the pastrami, top with sauerkraut and finally the Russian sauce.
- Throw the last piece of toast on to complete the tower and you have yourself a Creuben Sandwich, enjoy!
For our traditional Reuben Sandwich click here.
