Just 3 ingredients (chuck roast, beef consommé and onions) is all you need to make this delicious recipe for Crock-Pot Easy French Dip Sandwiches. Bonus points because it can be made as a freezer meal too!
Slow Cooker Easy French Dip Sandwiches
This recipe for Crock-Pot Easy French Dip Sandwiches is included in our 10 Easy Crock-Pot Freezer Meals Meal Plan that you can purchase in our store for just $1.99. The meal plan includes 10 great freezer meals that you can prepare ahead of time and have ready to go in your freezer. You will also get a printable grocery shopping list for all the ingredients needed to make all 10 meals as well as printable labels that you can stick on your freezer bags.
This was the first recipe we tried in our 10 Easy Freezer Meal list. For some reason I always figured French dip sandwiches to be hard to do and in reality it was super easy. My children got a kick out of dipping the sandwiches in the consomme and eventually started dipping everything they could into it (including their chips!)
Special Diets
Gluten Free | Low Carb | Low Sugar
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Crock-Pot Easy French Dip Sandwiches Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 pounds Beef Chuck Roast (trimmed of excess fat and cut into several pieces )
- 29 ounces Canned Beef Consommé (found in the soup section of the grocery store)
- ½ medium Onion (chopped)
For Serving
- Hoagie Buns Or Rolls (Look for gluten free rolls or buns if on a GF diet)
Instructions
- Remove the thick cartilage and fatty parts of the chuck roast.
- Cut the chuck roast into 5 to 6 pieces so that the meat fits in a 6 quart or larger slow cooker.
- Place the beef, chopped onions, and consomme into the slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 8 to 10 hours or on HIGH for 5 to 7 hours.
- Remove the chunks of roast an and shred the meat in a separate bowl.
- Strain the liquid in the slow cooker and discard any onion and other smaller pieces of meat to create your au jus for dipping.
- Place shredded meat on buns or rolls and serve little bowls of the au jus on the side for dipping your sandwiches in while eating.
Notes
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- Place all ingredients into a 1 gallon size zippered freezer bag OR FoodSaver bag.
- Place bag on flat surface and seal bag closed while pressing out as much excess air as possible OR use your FoodSaver sealing system to vacuum seal the bag closed.
- Label bag with date prepared, name of recipe, ingredients and cooking instructions.
- Lay bag flat in freezer and allow to freeze for several hours. At that point you can stand the bags upright in your freezer if desired.
- Thaw meal for 24 hours in the refrigerator before placing contents of the freezer bag in the slow cooker and cooking according to the recipe directions.
Nutrition
Instead of beef consume and onion I have used the French onion soup, just thought some may want to try this.
Good idea!
Hi,
For the freezer prep you instruct to “prepare the chuck roast the same as in the recipe”. Does this just mean to trim and cut or do you actually have to cook it as well?
I’m looking for a good recipe for a freezer meal exchange and need one that I can put the raw meat directly into the bag.
Thank you!
Kerry
Yes, just trim excess fat, cut into a few chunks and cook.
Hi! I also have a question about the “prepare roast as same in recipe” and to the comment above…you can just trim the fat, cut it into chunks, and then throw it in raw to the bag to freeze? Or do you need to cook before you freeze it? Sorry for the repetitive comment, I just wanted to make sure! Thank you, I can’t wait to try! 🙂