This Easy Vegetarian Reuben Casserole has layers of cheese, pickles, beets, and thousand island dressing all baked with marble rye bread.
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What do you eat is probably the most asked question I get from friends since giving up meat.
I think they picture me eating a pile of green beans or a salad at every meal.
Don’t get me wrong…I love a good salad, but I don’t eat a salad every day.
Mostly I just make meals I use to and substitute the meat out.
Sometimes that is easier than said than done.
But I try.
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My husband came home from work one day and commented that he had a beet Reuben and it was really good.
It sounded good and it had me searching.
Searching to see if I could make the beets like pastrami.
And you can.
But honestly I have tried this both ways and you just don’t notice that much of a difference.
So you can cure your beets if you want to but you don’t have to.
And if you are a meat eater you can of course add pastrami.
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My Grilled Cheese Tomato Soup Casserole was super popular.
So I decided instead of just recreating the sandwich my husband had I could make it into a Easy Vegetarian Reuben Casserole.
Which is now part of our monthly dinner rotation.
We both like pickles with our Reubens but if you are not a pickle fan you can certainly omit them.
You can also swap around the cheeses.
Though I fully suggest that you keep at least one layer Swiss.
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As far as bread goes I went with the marbled rye mostly because of the photos.
We normally eat a Jewish Rye which has a little more caraway seed flavor.
But that’s really a preference thing.
P.S. It’s a great day to buy my cookbook Holy Sweet!
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Easy Vegetarian Reuben Casserole
Ingredients
- 12 slices marble rye bread
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup thousand island dressing
- 12 slices swiss cheese
- 1 cup sauerkraut
- 6 slices slice white cheddar cheese
- 2 cooked medium beets thinly sliced
- 12 thinly sliced dill pickles (I used Stackers)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Take half of the butter and spread it on six of the slices of marble rye bread.
- Cut the slices of bread into rectangles and squares (save the leftover odd shaped ones for croutons) and place them in a single layer, butter side down, in the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
- Spread half the thousand island dressing evenly over the bread slices in the baking dish.
- Layer 6 slices of Swiss cheese on top of the dressing.
- Spread the sauerkraut evenly on top of the Swiss cheese.
- Layer 6 slices of white cheddar cheese on top of the sauerkraut.
- Layer the sliced pickles on top of the cheddar.
- Top with a layer of the beets.
- Spread the remaining thousand island dressing over the beets and then cover that with the remaining 6 slices of Swiss cheese.
- Spread the remaining six slices of bread with butter and cut them to fit into the dish.
- Place the pieces of bread on top of the cheese and bake for 30-33 minutes. You want the bread browned.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and serve warm.
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