Sausage Reubens, a sandwich spread with Creole mustard and made with grilled or pan-fried sausage and onions, topped with sauerkraut, sliced tomatoes, sliced jalapenos and white cheese, patterned after the 5 Finger Banjo Picker Sandwich from a Decatur, Alabama tavern known by locals as The Brick.
Sausage Reubens
Here's the sandwich I promised you with the last post on how I dress up store-bought sauerkraut and boy y'all is it a good one!
We eat sandwiches for supper all the time, sometimes with a side of chips, sweet potato fries or French fries, sometimes a bowl of soup or a side salad. Thank goodness it qualifies for a meal around here because we've been eating a lot of sandwiches this past summer, and a lot of them have been made in a microwave grill pan.
Summer heat has really made it downright difficult to get motivated to cook much of anything much less write new recipes, and I think I can count on one hand the number of times that I turned on the oven. I may have used my Traeger grill twice. Didn't use my charcoal grill or my gas grill one single time that I can recall.
I certainly did make use of my electronic pressure cooker (aka Instant Pot to many of you), air fryer, counter top grill, my Fasta Pasta, even my little 5-cup Perfect Cooker got a workout this summer. You'd be surprised how much comes out of that little pot! Heck, I even baked cornbread in my air fryer several times to avoid turning on the oven, Turned out fabulous too!
I learned of this sandwich from a little downtown bar called The Brick Deli and Tavern (aka The Brick, to locals in Decatur Alabama), and set out to recreate a version of it. It's essentially a Sausage Reuben, and while they have quite a few sandwiches on their menu, this one is a local favorite. Their sandwich consists of Polish sausage layered with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, onions, jalapenos, hot mustard, and sliced tomatoes on toasted rye bread.
While a classic Reuben is made with corned beef, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese, usually on rye bread. sausage reubens are typically made with a kielbasa or Polish sausage, although they can also be made with spicy andouille.
QVC had featured these beautiful, mini raw sausage wheels on the air from Annabelle's Kitchen that I had ordered to try though, so I went with that. If you have a good local meat market, you can find sausage wheels, or use other raw sausages such as bratwurst or Italian, grilled or pan-fried and cut to size for whatever bread you're using.
Winn Dixie also had some freshly-baked French rolls from their deli that just called out for this sandwich. Here's how to make it!
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