fancy reuben loaf

Fenton, MO
Updated on Jul 9, 2025

This is an excellent sandwich to have on a cold winter's night, along with your favorite soup. I like to have it with French onion soup.

Blue Ribbon Recipe

Enjoy this Reuben loaf as an easy meal or appetizer. It's layered with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island dressing. All the elements of a Reuben sandwich are stuffed inside buttery crescent dough. Super filling, this looks hard to make, but it's very simple. Perfect for a quick dinner or make a few for a game-time snack during football season.

prep time 30 Min
cook time 30 Min
method Bake
yield 4 serving(s)

Ingredients

  • 1 can crescent dough
  • 1/2 pound corned beef or pastrami, sliced wafer thin
  • 1/2 can sauerkraut (14. oz)
  • - Thousand Island dressing, to taste
  • 4 slices Swiss cheese
  • 1 large egg white
  • 1/2 - 3/4 teaspoons caraway seeds

How To Make fancy reuben loaf

  • Preheat the oven.
    Step 1
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. F.
  • Place a sheet of crescent dough onto a baking sheet.
    Step 2
    Place crescent dough into a 9 x 13 jellyroll pan. Unroll the dough and pinch the seams together. Roll the dough out to all edges.
  • Cut each side of the dough into slits.
    Step 3
    On the outer thirds of the dough, cut the dough into 1-inch pieces from the top to the middle. Repeat all the way down the right and left sides.
  • Add corned beef to the center of the dough.
    Step 4
    In the center of the dough layer, the corned beef.
  • Squeeze the liquid from the sauerkraut and place on top of the corned beef.
    Step 5
    Squeeze out the juice of the sauerkraut to make it as dry as possible. Layer the sauerkraut on top of the corned beef.
  • Add the Thousand Island dressing.
    Step 6
    Then add the Thousand Island dressing to taste.
  • Add Swiss cheese.
    Step 7
    Then add a layer of Swiss cheese.
  • Criss cross the pieces of dough.
    Step 8
    Start at one end, folding the end toward the center. Then, crisscross the edges.
  • Alternate folding in the pieces until braided.
    Step 9
    Alternate pulling a dough tab from the left, then from the right, back and forth, creating a "braid" down the length of the dough.
  • Brush with egg wash.
    Step 10
    When finished, brush the loaf with an egg white wash.
  • Sprinkle with caraway seeds.
    Step 11
    Sprinkle with caraway seeds.
  • Bake the Reuben loaf.
    Step 12
    Place in the oven and bake until golden brown, approximately 20 - 30 minutes.
  • Let sit for a few minutes and then slice.
    Step 13
    Remove from the oven. Let it sit 5 - 10 minutes to cool. Slice with a serrated knife according to desired sandwich width. Serve with chips or soup.

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Category: Sandwiches
Keyword: #sandwich
Ingredient: Beef
Method: Bake
Culture: American

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