If You Like The Philadelphia Classic, You’re Going To LOVE This Version Of It
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My husband and I recently visited Philadelphia. We found some great deals for flight and hotel accommodations and made a really spontaneous trip out there. One of the things that I really wanted to try multiple times at multiple places was the famous Philly Cheesesteak. I’m glad to announce we did. And then when we got home, I missed it. I honestly loved it so much, I was willing to pay for another trip right away – just to enjoy that wonderful, classic dish again. But my husband wasn’t as excited about the idea as I was…
I mean, he loved the dish just as much as I did, but he also has a little more sense when it comes to money, and spending it! The great news is: you can make them at home! Even better news: you can pack it for work and eat hassle free with this variation.
Sometimes, eating a messy sandwich can be well, rather messy at work. But, if you take all the ingredients and throw them into a bowl, you might just get a great turnout and a wonderful work lunch recipe.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Who Needs a Cape.
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Quick Tip: Mix and match or try a different type of cheese altogether. Ohh, this is one of my favorite ways to be adventurous.
78 Comments
Never heard of a Philly Cheese Steak made with hamburger.
And the cheese on top in that picture is not Velveeta.
No, cheese on a cheesesteak is not velvetta … Some shops use provolone, some american, and some use cheese wiz, one of the famous use the wiz, but I forget if pats or Gino’s. You can get a great cheese steak on any corner hoagie shop in philly & suburbs. Yum! This look delicious.
Oh no ground meat, lol, around here you can buy the sliced meat in supermarkets to make your own. The ground meat sounds good too in this recipe. Here they use very finely sliced very good quality meat. Had a great one the other day, so so good. The roll was warm & crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, provolone & broccoli rob on the steak sandwich. Delicious.
broccoli rob is a matter of taste, as it is very bitter, not all actually like it. its like Kale, if you dont cook it right it can be quite the awful experience, and keeps people from eating it again. Cooked right, and if you dont mind the bitter, then it can be delicious. i happen to dislike bitter, and i personally wont eat it again.
cheeze whiz and velveeta are both made by Kraft and almost taste the same.
Velveeta makes a white cheese called queso blanco.
Kraft makes Velveeta, and the queso blanco
Exactly!
Why would you ruin a perfectly good steak sandwich by using velvet cheese.? I grew up in Philadelphia and we NEVER did that! NEVER! And the only places I know of that use cheezWiz are Gino’s and Pat’s. It’s unacceptable in 99%of all other places that sell steak sandwiches!
is wiz chz any better?! processed chz is processed chz!
LOL Bingo
Velveeta and cheese whiz are basically the same thing. both made by Kraft
Look…..I do live in Philly. I agree that could be the blanco velveta……however……never….must repeat…..never will anything “cheese steak” have ground beef. Always steak…..
Ground beef is steak. It’s just cut differently.
its a fucking casserole
Is that really necessary Patrick??
Patick**
LOL
Amazing how many people think that this casserole is an actual sandwich. “Cheesesteak doesn’t have (this, that, or the other)”
Likely it doesn’t have macaroni. Likely it isn’t made in a dish and baked in an oven. Somehow that is lost on lots of people here.
I guess you can substitute any meat you want!
Why don’t you just eat a can of lard
Sliced deli steak might be expensive. Or try using box of Murry’s steak for steak and cheese subs. However could be expensive that’s why recipe uses ground beef.I wouldn’t.
Look…..I do live in Philly. I agree that could be the blanco velveta……however……never….must repeat…..never will anything “cheese steak” have ground beef. Always steak…..
i lived near Philly, and i also had the New York version. nowhere did they use ground meat or Velveeta. this is the lazy mans version! LOL!!
CASSEROLE DUMBASS CASSEROLE ALL YOU PEOPLE IN PHILLY DUMBASSES ALSO
Our Philly Cheese Steaks aren’t made from Hamburger. AND I was raised with White American Cheese. I wouldn’t eat any Philly Cheese steak with the Velveeta fake cheese. Sorry if this offends people. But this how we ate them when I grew up.
you are very right. i have eaten them since the 80’s, this is no philly cheesesteak sandwich. i prefer mine with provolone, but the original has white american cheese.
And I would also add to this fried onions and green peppers
green peppers are in recipe
So are onions.
being a western Canadian I never heard about Philly steaks but sure going to try your recipe.thanks. do you have recipes for spice mixes i.e. Italian mix spices..Creole etc
If you Goggle “Make your own spices” you can find Italian seasoning, taco seasoning, spaghetti seasoning, recipes for gravy mixes, and substitutes for cream of whatever soup. It helps eliminate all of the sodium in the mixes and they can save you money as well!
I need to go the Philadelphia just to have the Philly Cheese Steak Bomb! Steak! Provolone! Onions! Green Pepper! The secret is in the bread, real goooood bread, soft inside, crispy outside, warm! AWESOME… ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
this sounds good. i agree philly cheese steak is made with steak. i think is the flavors and ingr. a spin-off for the flavor.
i think its the lazy mans version. like lazy mans lasagna, is made with pork sausage instead of beef. it also has cottage cheese, instead of mozzarella, Parmesan, and ricotta.
Yes. Exactly!!
ATTENTION TO ALL NON PHILLY RESIDENTS….Despite what every national chain (and this recipe) want you to believe, we DO NOT put green peppers on a cheesesteaks.
Maybe a few ppl, but a real philly cheesesteak doesn’t get green peppers.
You’re welcome.
Thank you for clearing that up, Tony. Now, we can all sleep easier at night 🙂
Lol
originally it only had beef and onions, so you must not be old enough to know that. all my life, people have put green peppers and onions on them, so i must be older than you.
This makes my son and I crazy. Every Cheesesteak recipe from a non native contains green peppers. Not the way it is done!!
Likely doesn’t have macaroni, either. What about “Casserole” is so hard for people to understand?
You people are rude! One of the joys of cooking at home is you can take a recipe and tweek it to fit what you like.
Exactly!!
Thank you!
For those who are disturbed by the name, why not just call it Faux Cheesteak Cassserole, since it also includes Macaroni? In a casserole, it is best to have the meat either chopped bite-sized or ground, or it would be the dickens getting sliced meat strips to dip out uniformly when serving. Yikes, Beef is Beef!
actually sliced steak is totally different in taste and texture from ground beef. in this case, beef is not beef. also the slices are thin, and macaroni does not “dip out” uniformly either. cheesesteak also does not have velveeta. since it is a casserole of someones imagination, it can have macaroni.
Simply….if you don’t like the recipe, don’t make it! I happen to love trying new things.
Absolutely!
Ain’t people crazy? I get a large bang out of crazy people, Guess I should feel sorry for them,,but I don’t!!!
Exactly what I was thinking. Chill out peeps, if you don’t like the ingredients, don’t make it.
Just another thought, if you have young kids, or an elderly adult who can’t
chew well, the ground beef is perfect.
I totally agree. If you don’t like the recipe move on
We call ours a “Where the F is Philly (and who cares?) CheeseSteak” WITH green peppers.
My take on an authentic classic Philly Cheese Steak sammich only makes a few minor subs and adds. Instead of beef steak I use tuna and will do a cream sauce instead of a cheese sauce. I find peas are much better than green peppers and for less carbs, it’s egg noodles instead of the bread rolls. Other than thT, it’s exactly the same! [ebil grin]
Isn’t hamburger ground up steak? Whether chuck, ground round or sirloin it is steak folks
Steak is steak wake up people fix what you like and get over it
this recipe is not for philly cheese steak sandw. its for a casserole that tastes like a philly cheese steak. some of the comments by philly steak lovers is totally off point, true a philly cheese steak is just that THIS IS A CASSEROLE/LOOKS GOOD.
i agree LINDA B
Oh god no!!! No Velveeta. It’s processed with all sorts of bad chemicals. Not even real cheese. Do yourselves a kindness and use provolone or at the very least white American cheese.also try inexpensive thinly sliced market steaks or just have your butcher slice a steak paper thin. Cheers
All these complaints!!!! So make a recipes using thin sliced steak and white American cheese. Try the recipe or not but quit complaining if you can’t do better!
Seriously people. You have nothing better to do than rag on about a damn recipe? Just move on and STFU!
Just tried it and it turned out great. Very tasty! Used a cheese sauce made lime a really thick alfredo with italian cheeses and small amount of velvetta.
I ahree, its a casserole and tastes similiar to cheesesteak! A very budget friendly recipe! Thank you for sharing!
No peppers in mine, I hate peppers. I would use cheese whiz instead of Valvita. Chopped steak instead of ground. That’s to my taste. You prepare it the way you like it.
Got my best chuckles for the day from reading these comments! Love purists, love adventurists, love you all. Enjoy whatever.
Using fake cheese ( c’mon, Velveeta is processed crap) and hamburger, how dare you use the name Philly cheese steak!
Philly Cheese steak. There, I dared to say it again. I’m such a rebel 🙂
Where does all the hatred come From? If you don’t like this recipe, don’t make it. If it was named something you don’t like let it go. Please learn to love more and criticize less.
This might be one of the funniest and oddest threads I have ever read! It is all a matter of taste and it is NOT a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich, it is a casserole so all the responses stating how it should be ease up holy cow! Dont like it dont make it, just someone posting a recipe which they like it nowhere states this is the original version from a decade ago.
Enjoy or not enjoy it, I am going to give it a shot for something different and more than likely will take a few liberties with seasoning.
Thank you for sharing
Sounds great for a different kind of casserole. Thanks for posting it and ignore all those who don’t understand “recreated as a casserole” idea. But people do you really have to be so hateful????!!!!!
That picture looks luscious, but the recipe doesn’t seem to match. Now I’m out looking for a Philly Steak casserole that really tastes like a Philly Cheese sandwich.
Did anyone actually try this recipe? Those are the comments that would actually mean something to the reader.
I love a good casserole and this sounds like a good one am gonna try it thanks for sharing it
During our 13 years in South Jersey we sampled a lot of different “cheese steaks”, both in NJ & PA. I can recommend Nick’s in Clayton or Glassboro. However, I think I tasted heaven when I had a Chicken Cheese Steak with Bacon & Sweet Peppers!!! It was from a little corner store called Ewan General, which changed hands even before we moved back to Pittsburgh. It will remain one of my favorite memories of our time there, so savor your favorite version of the classic and freakin’ move on! No one can take that away from you!
Okay, I am not from Philly and have never had an authentic Cheese steak sandwich, they don’t exist in Montana sadly. I do make a Philly cheese steak pizza that is tasty. I will never use Velveeta in anything and the recipe calls for green peppers. I will however try this recipe and tweak it some. Sounds good, thanks for sharing it…and someday I hope to get to Philly for the real deal.
Why don[‘t you just eat a can of lard.
I usually eat 2.
so…has anyone actually made this casserole? or just nitpicked about the ingredients