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The U-Boat Sub

This sandwich is party food: big bites for people with big appetites. Perfect for big games or big parties or just a bunch of hungry teenagers.
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Servings: 4 (as a main course, 8-12 as an appetizer)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Equipment Instructions

Ingredients
  

  • 1 large loaf of soft Italian or French bread (not a baguette), sliced in half longways
  • 7 oz. thinly sliced Black Forest ham
  • 5 oz. thinly sliced garlic German bologna
  • 2 oz. thinly sliced hard salami
  • 6-8 slices each of provolone American and Swiss cheese
  • 2 large ripe tomatoes, thinly sliced
  • ½ red onion thinly sliced
  • ½ head of iceberg lettuce, shredded or sliced in ribbons
  • your favorite Italian dressing, about 1/4 cup or enough to spread across the top of the French bread
  • freshly ground pepper

Equipment

  • 4-12 large wooden picks (optional)

Instructions
 

  1. Gather all ingredients and place the bread on a cutting board.
  2. Starting with the ham, add a layer of meat, then alternate with a layer of cheese, overlapping the slices in each layer. Continue until each of the meats and cheeses until all of them have been used, distributing each meat and each cheese on the sandwich in a single layer.
  3. Then scatter a layer of red onions, followed by the tomatoes.
  4. Add a liberal amount of freshly ground pepper, then the lettuce.
  5. Sprinkle a generous amount of the Italian dressing on the second half of the bread, then position it atop the sandwich.
  6. If you’re serving the U-Boat as an appetizer, use the picks to secure it in sections, about 1 1/2 inches apart. If it is a main course, cut the U-Boat in quarters and spear each section with a pick.