Lannister Reuben Sandwich

'You alarm me!' said the King. 'I feel faint—Give me a ham sandwich!'

-Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There

Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you this is a low-calorie rueben sandwich, but we at least played around with the thousand island recipe to cut down a few calories.  We were so excited to try out the sauerkraut we made back in october, and it didn't disappoint!  All in all, this ended up being a delicious sandwich (despite not being able to find rye bread... stupid snow!)

What you need for the Thousand Island Dressing:

• 3/4 cup Plain, nonfat greek yogurt
• 3 tbsp Ketchup (we used some great gourmet ketchup we purchased at the farmer's market from Further Farms of Nashville)
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp minced onion
• 1 hard boiled egg
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 2 tsp sweet relish
• 1/4 tsp salt

What you need for the Reuben:

• Rye bread (preferably)
• Corned Beef (we cooked this in the slow-cooker)
• Swiss Cheese
• Sauerkraut
• Thousand Island

To make the thousand island dressing, just mix everything together really well.  To get the hard-boiled egg to the right consistency, I would recommend pressing it through a strainer.

The sandwich is just as easy.  Take two slices of bread.  Place corned beef on one slice, and top the corned beef with sauerkraut.  Spread the dressing on the other slice of bread, and then place a piece of swiss cheese over the sauce.  

Toast the sandwich in a sandwich press (or on the stove) and voila!  Delicious sandwich!  One of these days, Stoney and I will make a post on making sauerkraut.  We jarred over a gallon of it 2 weeks ago, documenting our methods.  This kraut was just a spur-of-the-moment decision and we didn't even measure how much salt or pickling spice we used.  Verdict?  Tasty.