Super Bowl BBQ Po' Boys from Food Network pitmaster: Try the recipe

For Super Bowl Sunday, it's a definite happening that Erica Blaire Roby volition beryllium serving barbecue to her guests.

"If it's coming from my kitchen, it's going to beryllium barbecue-related," the Houston-based champion pitmaster told Fox News Digital. (See the video astatine the apical of this article.)

Roby won the Food Network's "BBQ Brawl" rubric of "Master of 'Cue" — and has won different barbecue cooking titles arsenic well.

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But she did not turn up successful a room oregon thin to a barbecue pit arsenic a child. 

She was a lawyer earlier pivotins toward the nutrient manufacture successful 2014. Initially, Roby became certified arsenic a sommelier and then, aft having a kid successful 2018, she recovered herself astatine home.

Erica Blaire Roby of Houston, Texas, began her vocation arsenic a lawyer earlier shifting to culinary pursuits. She was named "Master of 'Cue" connected the Food Network amusement "BBQ Brawl."  (Dorothy Beam Photography)

"So I would telephone my dada each the clip connected the phone. He's from New Orleans," she said. 

"And we ever conscionable talked astir his bucket database and what helium wanted to do. He said that helium had ever wanted to person a barbecue restaurant."

This revelation came arsenic a daze to Roby, who said that opening a edifice with her begetter had "never been connected my radar."

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"We some realized that neither 1 of america knew however to tally a edifice oregon to cook barbecue. So I went online and recovered barbecue classes," she said. 

Moving to nationalist television

Roby took to cooking barbecue, entering competitions and sharing her creations connected societal media. That led to a telephone from the Food Network, which asked her to audition for "BBQ Brawl."

Initially, Roby was intimidated by "all of these barbecue legends" she had seen connected television, she said.

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"I called my dada and I was like, 'Dad, I person bully quality and atrocious news. The bully quality is, I'm going to beryllium location very, precise quickly. So you're not going to person to ticker my kid for precise long. The atrocious quality is, I'm going to publically embarrass our family connected nationalist television,'" she said. 

Her begetter suggested she spell by her mediate sanction and benignant herself arsenic "Erica Blaire, for Blue Smoke Blaire Barbecue." 

Roby dedicated her beingness to barbecue and "spreading barbecue love."

On the show, she started "really leaning into" her Creole New Orleans roots to navigator – "and those dishes started winning," Roby said.

The adjacent happening she knew, she said, "I'm announced arsenic Food Network's 'Master of 'Cue.'" 

After that, Roby dedicated her beingness to barbecue and "spreading barbecue love." 

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Although New Orleans is not needfully known for barbecue, "it has a batch of affluent taste past erstwhile it comes to culinary and food," she said. 

Incorporating the spices and ingredients of Cajun cooking with the fume and meats of barbecue was a mode to adhd an "element without really changing the integrity of the contented of the cuisine," Roby said.

Erica Blaire Roby revealed however she's capable to blend Cajun flavors with barbecue traditions.  (Fox News Digital; Erica Blaire Roby)

"And that was thing that's truly beautiful. It's unexpected." 

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Roby shared 1 of her hybrid Cajun barbecue recipes with Fox News Digital. 

With Super Bowl LIX taking spot successful New Orleans, this is simply a large crockery to observe with immoderate Big Easy flair, she said. 

Smothered Beef Po' Boys: The Leftover Edition by Erica Blaire Roby

Ingredients

Gravy and Beef

2 cups leftover beef (shredded)

2 tablespoons food oregon oil

1 onion, chopped oregon sliced 

1 doorbell pepper, chopped oregon sliced

2 cloves garlic, minced

1½ cups beef broth

1 tablespoonful Worcestershire sauce

1 spoon BBQ Rub

Salt and pepper, to taste

1 tablespoonful flour oregon cornstarch (optional, for thickening)

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Sandwich

4 French breadstuff rolls oregon hoagie rolls, split

Lettuce, shredded

Tomato, sliced

Pickles, sliced

Mayonnaise

This beef po' lad sandwich uses leftover beef and comes unneurotic quickly. (Erica Blaire Roby)

Directions

1. Sauté the vegetables. In a skillet oregon saucepan, vigor the food oregon lipid implicit mean heat. Add the sliced onions and doorbell capsicum and navigator until brushed and caramelized, astir 5 to 7 minutes. Add the minced ail and navigator for an further minute.

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2. For gravy: Add the beef broth, Worcestershire condiment and BBQ hitch to the skillet, stirring good to combine. Bring to a debased simmer. 

For a thicker gravy, sprinkle successful the flour oregon marque a cornstarch slurry by combing 2 tablespoons of acold h2o with 1 tablespoonful of cornstarch successful a abstracted vessel and stir. Slowly adhd this slurry to the gravy and disturbance until thickened.

3. Stir successful the shredded leftover beef, letting it lukewarm done successful the gravy for astir 5 minutes. Season with brackish and capsicum arsenic needed.

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4. Assemble the Po' Boys: Spread mayonnaise connected each French breadstuff roll. Layer with shredded lettuce, herb slices, and pickles. Spoon the smothered beef and gravy onto each roll.

This look is owned by Erica Blaire Roby and was shared with Fox News Digital.