Description
I tried for years to make a cheese steak as good as the takeout sub shops of southeastern Massachusetts. I think this is about as close as you can come at home. Freezing the steak the day before makes it easy to cut into very thin slices.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ¼ medium onion, sliced
- 4 large fresh mushrooms, sliced
- ¼ green bell pepper, sliced into long strips
- 1 (1/2 pound) well-marbled beef steak of any type, sliced as thinly as possible
- 3 tablespoons chopped pickled hot peppers
- 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- 2 slices sharp Cheddar cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
- ⅓ French baguette, cut in half lengthwise
Instructions
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion; cook and stir until just tender
- about 2 minutes. Push onion to sides of the pan; add mushrooms and cook until softened. Stir in bell pepper and cook just until tender
- about 3 minutes. Remove vegetables from the pan with a slotted spoon; set aside.
- Heat remaining 1 tablespoon butter in the same skillet. Add steak and pickled hot peppers; season with hot pepper sauce
- salt
- and pepper. Cook and stir until steak is mostly browned
- 2 to 3 minutes. Add vegetable mixture back into the pan; stir until heated through.
- Turn off the heat; place cheese on top of steak and vegetable mixture so it can melt. Scoop mixture into sliced baguette; pour some of the juices on top.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 25 mins
Servings: 1