Been making this sandwich for a month or so now, and have yet to get sick of it, because it is objectively the best sandwich ever made. Just posting now because we're getting to the end of the summer cooking season, where I pretty much only want to use the stovetop to save on cooling bills.
It's basically a chopped steak sandwich, but I'm not using a real "steak" cut, since it's functionally the same thing no matter what cut of beef you use, so long as you remove the fat and gristle first. So this is just whatever top or bottom round London broil or roast is on sale-- again, it doesn't matter at all for the flavor.
EZ enuff, just a bit labor intensive. The whole mass is 25%sweet peppers (bell), 25% onion, and 50% meat. There is also a bunch of hot pepper in there, but I don't really count it for purposes of determining my ratios. This particular one is made with a shitty withered serano I had sitting in the drawer, and a whole ghost pepper. Usually, when I don't forget to check stock, I prefer to use about 3 or 4 seranos and a whole habanero, but you can spice it how you'd like if you're more hardcore than that, or else a crybaby.
You slow sautee the peppers and onions, periodically chopping them up as you go, until they are fully cooked and caramelized, then you put the meat on, which should be shaved. For that process, its best to have a half-frozen chonk of beef, but it works fine if it is fully thawed, you just have to do the knife work. If it is fully frozen, that works too, but it helps to have a big ol butcher cleaver or heavy knife to whack at the block to get chips off. You could also use that shit they pre-slice, but it always has a shitty residual flavor. If you are even more of a faggot, you can use the fatty goyslop known as SteakUms, but that is absolutely haram in this house.
Seasoning is a mix of garlic salt, black pepper/aleppo pepper, celery salt, which is to taste.
Finally, at the end, after its all mostly chopped up together, it gets a mix of swiss, fresh mozz, and a pinch or two of whatever the pre-bagged and largely cheddar based blend "mexican cheese" is. That also has to be chopped in and thoroughly so the entire thing tastes the same with every bite.
The garlic spread on the bread is maybe the easiest part, since its just that preminced garlic you get in a jar, bullshit-parmesan/romano-shakey cheese, and some dried parsley mixed with some kind of margarine spread-- we use Earth Balance, since it is the only one that does not have soy in it, but regular butter or Country Crock is also fine. Mostly don't use butter for expense reasons, and because I make a whole tub of the shit at a time so it will last for months, but also because it does not spread as well when cold, and will melt into its separate parts when warm. If you're just making it for one batch, that shouldn't be a problem though, so by all means go full gourmet.
That amount of lettuce is not just garnish either; the thing tastes much better with it, providing a cold and crunchy contrast to the rest of the hot and squishy sandwich. The water in it helps the flavor stand out even more as well.
Oh, and use whatever bread you want. The bagel is just what we have because I didn't feel like baking a roll myself yesterday. First you light toast it, then you garlic spread, then it goes in the oven, garlic-side-up for a few to bake in the flavor.
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