French Onion and Beef Strudel

Jekase's Note:

I don't know where I got this recipe but I've been making it for years. The trick is the carmelized onions. So, so good!

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• ¾ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
• ¼ cup margarine or ¼ cup butter
• 1 ½ cups white onions , thinly sliced
• 6 ounces beef sirloin , sliced 1/8-inch thick
• 1 teaspoon flour
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon cumin
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon pepper
• ½ cup beef broth
• 1 (8 ounce) can refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese

Topping

• ½ cup sour cream
• 1 cup au jus sauce

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a small bowl combine mozzerella cheese and 1/4 parmesan cheese. Set aside.
3. Melt margarine in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions. Cook and stir until the onions are a rich, golden-brown color. Remove onions with a slotted spoon and set aside, leaving dripping in pan.
4. Add beef to skillet. Cook and stir until evenly browned; 2-3 minutes. Return onions and any juice to skillet. Add flour, brown sugar, cumin, salt, pepper, and beef broth. Cook and stir (scraping bottom of pan) for 5 minutes or until almost all the liquid is absorbed.
5. Grease a cookie sheet. Separate crescent rolls into 8 triangles. Slightly overlap long sides of 2 triangles together to make one large triangle; press to seal. Repeat until you have 4 large triangles. Place triangles in a row, all pointing the same direction and overlapping, on the cookie sheet. Press to seal. Spoon onion mixture down the center in 1-1/2" wide strip, leaving about 1" at top and bottom. Sprinkle with the cheese mixture. Bring side points of crescent rolls over the filling to create a braid-like appearance. seal ends. Sprinkle with 2 Tbls. parmesan cheese.
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until deep golden brown. Serve hot with sour cream and au jus.

Reviews

[Chef #284818]

This is from the Pillsbury 1998 Bakeoff Contest. It is outstanding. You can also freeze the meat/onion mixture. Just thaw and proceed to step 5.

[FunWorld123]

I love this! I've made it according to the directions and have also made individual servings using the dough of 2 crescent rolls pressed together. Yummy!