Lunch

Cold Beef and Rocket Sandwich

Name: Cold Beef and Rocket Sandwich
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 2 slices Rye bread; 150 g Cooked lean beef; 25 g Rocket; 60 g Tomato; 10 g Horseradish or mustard

Leftover steak, rocket and horseradish on rye. 42 g of protein.

Calories: 419kcal
Protein: 42g
Fat: 10g
Carbs: 38g

Per serving, makes 1. Published 29 August 2026.

Allergens

Gluten
Milk
Mustard

Creamed horseradish carries milk; the mustard alternative carries mustard. Grated horseradish root on its own carries neither.

Flags follow UK labelling rules and come from the ingredients as listed, not from any particular brand. Check the packet before cooking for somebody with an allergy.

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Cold Beef and Rocket Sandwich, plated and ready to serve. — The finished recipe. Cold Beef and Rocket Sandwich

Ingredients 1 to 5 for cold beef and rocket sandwich arranged separately on a dark worktop. — Ingredients 1 to 5. 2 slices Rye bread. 150 g Cooked lean beef (Weighed cooked, since this is leftovers. Raw, the same protein figure needs about 190 g.). 25 g Rocket. 60 g Tomato. 10 g Horseradish or mustard

Cold Beef and Rocket Sandwich, preparation step 1: Slice the cold beef as thinly as you can against the grain. — Step 1. Slice the cold beef as thinly as you can against the grain.

The finished cold beef and rocket sandwich. — Step 2. Spread the mustard on both slices, layer the beef, tomato and rocket, and press it together firmly.

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Ingredients

Rye bread2 slices
Cooked lean beef150 g
Weighed cooked, since this is leftovers. Raw, the same protein figure needs about 190 g.
Rocket25 g
Tomato60 g
Horseradish or mustard10 g

Method

Slice the cold beef as thinly as you can against the grain.
Spread the mustard on both slices, layer the beef, tomato and rocket, and press it together firmly.

Worth knowing

Against the grain matters more with cold beef than hot. Sliced with it, leftover steak eats like rope.

Other lunch recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every lunch between 300 and 450 calories a serving.

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