Homemade Steak and Cheese Sandwich with sauteed Onions and Peppers.

The Best Steak and Cheese

If you love a Philly Cheese Steak, wait until you try this Steak and Cheese sub style sandwich. It’s made with chipped beef, sliced and marinated, from a Beef Chuck Tender roast. Then it’s topped with sauteed onions, sweet lunch box peppers and melted Monterrey Jack cheese. I like to use full length loafs of French Bread, cut in half and spread with butter, before I load them with goodies, then quickly toast them in the oven under the broiler. If this sounds good to you, let’s get started.

Semi Frozen Beef Chuck Tender portions for chipped beef.

Steak and Cheese Chipped Beef

One of the first things I learned about meat preparation was the secret to cutting thin sliced meat. This secret can be applied to pork and chicken as well, not just beef. All you have to do, after the meat has been cut into portions, is place the meat on cookie sheets and freeze for 30 to 45 minutes. Once the meat is firm, it’s a lot easier to cut and slice into thin pieces. If you’re using a meat slicer, you can stack the meat portions into 3’s and freeze for an hour, instead, then run them on the blade.

In my video tutorial I use my food processor to cut the meat but I don’t recommend that you do this at home because it can be dangerous. The cheese grader blade, on my machine, has a reversed blade designed to slice vegetables, not meat. So, be for warned that it is dangerous to cut chipped beef this way and that I don’t recommend that you do it this way. Stick with a meat slicer, grinder or a sharp kitchen knife. Even better, just have your butcher do it for you.

https://youtu.be/1If5tL5D2JE

Poor Man’s Gourmet Kitchen Video Tutorial for a Steak and Cheese Sandwich.

Steak and Cheese Ingredients:

2 Loaf French Bread
3 lbs Beef Chuck Tender Roast, chipped
3 tbsp Butter
1 Onion, sliced
1 Bell Pepper, sliced
1 1/2 tsp Kosher Salt
Salt and Pepper to taste during cooking

Marinade
1 Garlic Clove, chopped
1 Chipotle Pepper in Adobo Sauce
1 tbsp Dijon Mustard
1 tbsp Honey
2 tbsp Olive Oil
2 tbsp White Wine Vinegar

After everything has been cooked, the meat and vegetables, you can combine everything and melt the cheese in the pan, covered with a lid, or bake in the oven, on the french bread under a low broil for, a few minutes, until the cheese is melted and the bread is lightly toasted. I recommend that you butter the bread first ,though, before you toast your Steak and Cheese Sandwich.

Can You Say Philly Cheese Steak?

A Philly Cheese Steak ain’t no joke! There are franchise’s back east that have been battling out the sandwich wars for decades. And, if you’re a Steak and Cheese fan, then you know which restaurant you support. I found a link that shows the top ten locations for authentic Philadelphia Cheese Steaks, and it talks a little bit about the history of each one as well. Apparently the original sandwich started at a hot dog stand and Wikipedia talks all about it here, History of the Cheese Steak!

Flat out, I don’t make it exactly the same way. The original recipes use Cheese Wiz and I use Nacho Cheese, instead. So, you’ll either love it or you won’t. Both Cheese’s come from a can so basically, with my recipe, you’re getting the same thing, only with my sandwich, your getting a little kick too. I find this to be much more satisfying because I like my Philly Cheese Steak a little on the spicy side.

Philly Cheese Steak Ingredients:

1 lb Sliced Beef
1 qt Water
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 can Nacho Cheese or Cheese Whiz
Sub Sandwich Rolls
1/2 Sliced onion
1 Chopped Garlic Clove
Salt and Pepper to taste
Olive Oil for cooking

Combine the water and Baking soda and add the Sliced Beef. Marinate for 20 minutes to tenderize. Saute your Onions with olive oil and Garlic. Strain the beef and cook thoroughly on medium high heat. Butter the Sub roll and toast on a flat skillet. Then add the cooked Beef, Onions and Nacho Cheese to your toasted sub roll and enjoy your Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich!