Roast Beef Poor Boy

Name: Roast Beef Poor Boy
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 loaves poor boy bread; ½ cup mayonnaise, for serving; 3 tbsp. vegetable oil; 1 qt. beef stock; 1 16-oz. jar sliced dill pickles, for serving; Hot sauce to taste; 1 head iceberg lettuce, shredded, for serving; 3-4 thinly sliced tomatoes, for serving; Salt and pepper to taste; 1 3-4-lb. beef chuck roast; 2 tbsp. flat-leaf parsley; 1 medium onion, cut into large chunks; 3 garlic cloves; Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation info

Yields
6-8
poor boy sandwiches

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Louisiana Eats!

By Poppy Tooker

Published 2013

About

My favorite roast beef poor boy is the dripping, delicious version served at Parkway Bakery. They serve hundreds of pounds of this fork-tender, fabulous roast beef every week on crispy, hot French bread. With some advice from Jay Nix, Parkway’s owner, here is a version scaled down for your home kitchen.

Ingredients

1 3-4-lb. beef chuck roast
Salt and pepper to taste
3 garlic cloves

Europe
United States
France
Louisiana
Bread

Method

Season the roast with salt and pepper.

With the food processor running, drop in the garlic cloves one at a time to finely chop them. Add the onion and the parsley to the food processor and chop, pulsing continuously until minced.

Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Heat the oi