This is a great recipe for a cold day, and you can buy most of the ingredients at your supermarket.
Why have soup and a sandwich when your soup can be your sandwich? I had all the ingredients to make a Reuben sandwich. But I wanted soup. So I made Reuben Seup…I mean Soup!
Think French onion soup, but using Reuben ingredients…
Rye bread slices
Sauerkraut, drained and rinsed
Chicken stock
Pastrami, sliced thinly
Swiss cheese, sliced thinly
I like to take the sauerkraut, rinse it under cold water, then toss it in a pot that already has some finely chopped bacon and onions cooking in it. Once the ingredients have cooked down, set it aside. (If you prefer not to use bacon and onions, that’s fine, too.)
Find a source for great pastrami, like a good deli in your neighborhood.
Heat the chicken stock in a pot. Take the thinly sliced pastrami and chop it up into bite-sized pieces. Place the pastrami in the chicken stock to warm through. Keep the stock warm on low heat.
Now you’re ready to assemble…
Take an oven-proof soup bowl. Line the bottom with some rye bread.
On top of that, place a nice helping of the sauerkraut.
Pour the warm chicken stock with the pastrami over the sauerkraut.
Layer slices of Swiss cheese over the top of the bowl. Place it under the broiler until melted.
Eat!
It satisfied my soup and sandwich craving!
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