Easiest Way to Vegan Tasty Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀

Easiest Way to Vegan Tasty Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀 Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀. Great recipe for Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀. Instead of the classic corned beef and sauerkraut, the Rachel is usually made with turkey or pastrami and coleslaw. Both sandwiches are made with Swiss cheese and rye bread.

Top with sauerkraut/onion mixture, then the sauce, then top with cheese.

If you want to get technical, a Reuben sandwich made with pastrami is called a "Rachel".

A classic Reuben is always made with corned beef!

You can have Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀 using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀

1. You need of seedless rye bread.

2. Prepare of pastrami.

3. It’s of Swiss cheese.

4. Prepare of vegetable oil for frying.

5. Prepare of sauerkraut (see my recipe 'Tex's Small Batch Sauerkraut' in my profile).

6. Prepare of dressing (I'm using ranch, but the traditional dressing is Russian).

7. You need of sea (or kosher) salt and freshly ground black pepper to season.

It is easy to see the confusion though, as both sandwiches are so delicious!

If you've ever been to Katz's Delicatessen in NYC (or any other NY Jewish-style deli, really), you know what I'm talking.

Now, let's set the Reuben-Rachel issue straight.

If the sandwich is made with corned beef, then it is a Reuben.

Tex's Pastrami Reuben ('Rachel') 🐂🍞🍲🧀 step by step

1. Pan fry your bread on one side in a skillet on a high heat.

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3. Slice the Swiss thinly.

4. Remove from heat, and smear both sides of the toasted side with dressing (Ive seen recipes that use Thousand Island, or horseradish instead of Russian). Add the pastrami to the dressed side of one slice. Reduce the heat of your skillet to a medium low heat.

5. Put the sauerkraut in the pan and add the sliced cheese on top. Cover with a pan lid and cook for 1-2 minutes.

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7. As the cheese just starts to melt, remove it, and the sauerkraut, from the pan and position on top of the pastrami. Increase the heat in the pan to a medium high heat.

8. Put the base in the pan and cover with a pan lid again until the bread is toasted.

9. Add the lid of the sandwich and flip over on to the un-toasted side. Cook until toasted.

10. Finally, remove from the pan, add extra dressing if required, and serve hot.

11. Remember, the way to serve a Reuben or Rachel is "Axis, Neutral, Ally": Kraut, Swiss, Russian 😺.

If the sandwich is made with pastrami, then it's a Rachel.

There's a bit of controversy as to who invented this sandwich, which is globally loved.

I've been a Reuben pastrami sandwich lover ever since I tasted my first one at a good deli many years ago.

Hot pastrami with sauerkraut, melted Swiss cheese and a dabble of Russian dressing on thick buttered, seeded crunchy grilled Rye bread has to be one of the best sandwiches ever!

In large skillet, melt butter over medium.