Homemade Sub Sandwiches

This post is about homemade submarine sandwiches.  We enjoy them.

We make these several times a year - everyone in the family loves them. 

 First step is to make the homemade bread - This time I left it a bit "sticky" to have a lighter bread.  I put the "loaves" into greased pans - these are 11" x 17" and 11" x 13", so these will be long loaves.

Basic Homemade Bread Recipe

After they are in the pan, I spread...or glob butter on the top.

 Then I make parallel diagonal cuts in the top.....I don't know why other than it makes it look more like sub bread. :)  These cuts are not very deep.

This has parsley sprinkled over the top - sometimes I use parmesan or romano cheese on top.

The bread dough was just plain bread this time, although many times I will make an herb bread with Italian seasoning in the dough.

Now it needs to set to rise. 

 Allow the dough to rise....this should have waited a bit longer in order to rise more, but we had to hurry. The house was cool enough that the rising took longer.

The bread bakes at 400 degrees for about 25-30 minutes. I don't want it hard, but it needs to be done.

After removing from the oven, I put it on a wire rack and cover with a dish towel so it doesn't dry out and get hard.

 The bread is not very thick.....I sometimes make it thicker, but some of us like it thinner, so this time the bread is only about 1 1/2"-2" thick or so.

Using a large bread knife, I slice the bread horizontally and open each loaf up, leaving it lying open. 

I put a layer of plain salad dressing on the bottom half and then layer a couple of layers of deli meat on the dressing- this time I have smoked turkey and oven baked chicken. Sometimes we use more or other kinds of meat.

While the bread was baking and cooling, we were slicing and preparing our ingredients for the subs.

The cheese goes next. Sometimes, I buy sliced deli cheese - this time I cut some that we had....we used Monterey Jack and Sharp Cheddar Cheeses this time. We alternated them on the sandwich and put them at an angle, then put tomato slices on top.

In summer when we have our own fresh ingredients, we add more tomatoes and other veggies....this time, the tomatoes weren't even ripe, so we just put a little on. 

Continue building..........

 Next layer is ..... pickle slices........and then onion slices. I separate the onions and don't put lots, but they do add great flavor to the sandwich.

Next we layer the lettuce -this is Romaine lettuce, but anything works.  On the inside of the top, I put Ranch Dressing and Mustard.   Mmmmmmmmmmmm..........

Time to close them up......and slice.

I put them on a large tray to put on the table.  I have a large family and several boys....who eat a lot.

We served potato chips and kombucha with our sub sandwiches.....

They were wonderful!  By the way, my son just walked by as I enlarged the above picture and  saw it....he said, "Ohhhhhhhh.....that looks good......we need to make those again." :)   He tends to be ready to eat most of the time!  (We had these just a few days ago, but will probably make them again soon.)

In case you were wondering, there was nothing left! Sometimes we can have a few left for the next day.....like if we have pasta salad or something with it......but this time, they ate everything!!!!

You can do many variations to this....leave off what you don't like.....add other stuff.  You could add avocado, peppers,  more meats or cheeses, other dressings, make the bread thicker - I have made it very thick before and my husband LOVES it that way....this time we made it thinner because of trying to reduce the breads and starches so that a couple of family members could recover totally from the flu. Lots of possibilities with this......you could even do a chicken salad and lettuce sub or meatballs or whatever you would enjoy.

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