fancy reuben loaf

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Recipe by
Angie Lefler
Fenton, MO

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.

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

Ingredients For fancy reuben loaf

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

How To Make fancy reuben loaf

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. F.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 4
    In the center of the dough layer, the corned beef.
  • 5
    Squeeze out the juice of the sauerkraut to make it as dry as possible. Layer the sauerkraut on top of the corned beef.
  • 6
    Then add the Thousand Island dressing to taste.
  • 7
    Then add a layer of Swiss cheese.
  • 8
    Start at one end, folding the end toward the center. Then, crisscross the edges.
  • 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.
  • 10
    When finished, brush the loaf with an egg white wash.
  • 11
    Sprinkle with caraway seeds.
  • 12
    Place in the oven and bake until golden brown, approximately 20 - 30 minutes.
  • 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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