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Best Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwiches

This recipe for French Dip tastes just like your favorite restaurant version. Beef roast is seared in a skillet before being placed in a slow cooker. Then soy sauce, Coca Cola, beef consommé and lots of seasonings are mixed together and poured over the beef. After cooking several hours, the beef is thinly sliced and cooked for an additional hour. Slices of beef and cheese are placed on split rolls and baked until the cheese is melted, then served with the au jus from the slow cooker.

Course Entree
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  • 3 lb beef chuck roast trimmed of excess fat
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 6 French rolls or hoagie buns
  • 12 slices provolone cheese
  • ⅓ cup soy sauce
  • 1 cup Coke not diet
  • 2 cans (10.5 oz) beef consommé
  • ¼ cup dry minced onions
  • 1 tbsp beef bouilion
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • ½ tsp onion powder
  • ½ tsp dried oregano
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • ¼ tsp dried thyme
  • 1 bay leaf

Instructions

  1. Heat olive oil over medium high heat in a large nonstick skillet. Using two forks or tongs, sear the roast on all sides until lightly browned. Add to slow cooker and top with remaining ingredients.
  2. Cook on LOW for 4 hours then remove roast to a cutting board. Thinly slice roast across the grain. Place sliced meat back in slow cooker and continue to cook on LOW for 1-2 additional hours.
  3. When ready to serve, remove roast and strain fat from broth for dipping.
  4. Split rolls and line the bottom of a baking tray. Top each half with beef followed by 2 slices of cheese. Bake at 350 F until cheese melts. Serve with reserved au jus.

Recipe Notes

Add sautéed onions or mushrooms to beef before baking in oven.