Thursday, January 22, 2026

Open-Faced Garlic Toast French Dip Sandwich


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Open-Faced Garlic Bread French Dips are one of our fast and easy go to meals
This is a fast easy sandwich to make.  It just takes assembling and a little oven time.  While in the oven you can heat up your Au Jus  

That's it ... easy peasy 😋

You can use any frozen garlic toast for this recipe.  I like the roast beef at Aldi so most of my ingredients for these sandwiches come from there (well, all but the Au Jus gravy mix packet)

I have found the easiest roast beef (and best tasting in my opinion for a sandwich) is the roast beef sliced lunch meat.
My recipe is for 4 sandwiches since I am making this for only Bill and I but you can easily double this recipe and use the whole box of garlic toast. That being said, I also only use half of the Au Jus Gravy mix which measures out to 3 Tablespoons of mix and then half the water for 1 1/2 cups water. For the roast beef I put 4 slices on each slice of garlic toast, but you can use more or less to your desire. 

Bill does pack a lunch every day for work, so we use the extra roast beef for his sandwiches for the week.
 Open-Faced Garlic Toast French Dip Sandwich
4 slices garlic toast (box usually has 8 slices)
Deli roast beef (I like Aldi, Lunch Mate Deli Selected roast beef finely sliced - using 12 slices)
8 slices provolone cheese

Au Jus Dip
3 Tablespoons Au Jus gravy mix (or half of a 1 ounce package)
1 1/2 cups water

1. Place garlic toast on a foil covered baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes (we do like our toast crunchy on the bottom)

2. while toast is baking, in a small saucepan place 3 tablespoons of dry au jus gravy mix and 1 1/2 cups water and simmer until hot.

3. After toast is baked, with a spoon mash down the center of the garlic bread

4. Now build your sandwich - Place 1 slice of provolone cheese on the toast, then 4 slices of roast beef and top with another slice of provolone cheese.

5. Place back in the oven until the cheese is melted on top.

Place au jus in a small bowl for dipping sandwich in.  This is lip smacking good 😜