Slow Cooked Beef Brisket

ingredients

Here's what you need :¬)

serves 4

2 x sprays of oil
1 kg Beef Brisket Joint
4 medium (300g) carrots cut into chunks
1 large (150g) parsnip cut into chunks
3 sticks (100) celery cut into chunks
1 large (200g) white onion cut into chunks
1 ½ tsp Sea salt roughly ground
2 tsp black peppercorn roughly ground
2 beef OXO™ cubes crumbled
1 veg OXO™ cube crumbled
2 tsp English mustard powder
3 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp Worcester sauce or Hendersons™ relish
750 ml boiling water
1 Tbsp oil or butter
1 Tbsp plain flour
1 Tbsp bisto powder*

*enough cold water to form a slurry

method

I am using an electric slow cooker for my Slow Cooked Beef Brisket and if you do not have one of those this recipe is probably not for you :-)

Just kidding! You can make the dish in a pressure cooker far quicker, but as for timing — that should be guided by the make and model.

Now this really is fast to put together and then a really, really, no really slow to cook for 10 to 12 hours and an hour resting for the meat.

The most important task is sealing and browning our meat in a really hot pan — I have my stir-fry ring on max to achieve that quickly. So lets get all our vegetables prep'd and our seasonings out, weighed, ground and let's do this ting!

nutty tip clean Now, to make things really easy, prep' everything needed, then life will be a dream and you can put this together, leave it and forget it. Happy days :-)

So fistly, place your carrot chunks into the bottom of your slow cooker.
- 4 medium (300g) carrots cut into chunks
- 1 large (150g) parsnip cut into chunks
- 3 sticks (100) celery cut into chunks
- 1 large (200g) white onion cut into chunks
Add your parsnip chunks on top & then your celery chunks. Lastly add onions.

veg in slowcooker — add carrots, parsnip & celery

onions added to slowcooker — add onions on top

Place 750 ml of water into the kettle ready to boil. Check your seasonings are all ready to go.
Now remove packaging from the Beef Brisket & pat the joint dry with kitchen paper.
Place a heavy based frying pan on your fastest ring set to max and once smoking spray twice with spray oil.
Find the place on the joint with the most fat and set in down into the pan — try not to move it till you can hear it browned.

sealing-beef-joint — seal on the fatty side first

Then turn and continue section by section until you have achieved a deep crisp brown all around the joint — then brown both flat ends.

Turn the ring off and place the Joint on top of all your vegetables.

sealed-joint-on-veg-02 — place in slowcooker

Top the joint and vegetables with Salt & papper we prepared earlier

1 ½ tsp Sea salt roughly ground
2 tsp Black peppercorn roughly ground

seasoned-joint — season with salt and pepper

Boil the kettle add 750 ml of the boiling water into your meat frying pan to deglaze it

deglazing-pan — deglaze meat pan with boiling water

Add all your seasonings:

2 beef OXO™ cubes crumbled
1 veg OXO™ cube crumbled
2 tsp English mustard powder
3 tsp smoked paprika

simmering-water-and-spices — that simple

Add Worcester sauce or Hendersons™ relish

adding-worcester-sauce — add Worcester sauce

Stir until the powdered stock cube has disolved

stirring-gravy-in-pan — stir to disolve powdered stock cube

Carefully pour the liquid around the side of the meat leaving the meat untouched.

tipping-gravy-into-slowcooker — pour into slowcooker avoiding the joint

Set on high for 1 hour then reduce to low for 10hrs*.

nutty tip clean *Please do not be tempted to 'Peek' at it! Everytime you open the lid you're adding 30 minutes to the cooking time — as you have released the heat.

10hrs later..... So our beef should be melt in the mouth done.

Test the joint is tender, cook some more if not.

fork-testing-beef — test if really tender

Carefully remove the joint to a plate to rest for 1 hour.

removing-beef-joint — carefully remove from pot

removing-carving-fork-from-joint — remove fork

beef-joint-resting — rest for at least 1hr

Now we need to thicken the gravy so get your remaining ingredients.

1 Tbsp oil or butter
1 Tbsp plain flour
1 Tbsp bisto powder*

Get a small pan and melt the oil or butter then add in the flour and stir to cook out the flour and form a loose roux.

flour-in-melted-butter — melt butter & add flour

roux-for-gravy-in-a-pan — stir & cook the flour

Put Bisto™ into a small pot / cup and add a little water to make a surry.
Add Bisto™ slurry to the slow cooker

Stir through and turn the slow cooker to high to thicken up as the meat continues to rest.

Now I start boiling my potatoes for my mashed potatoes, praying that it was all worth the wait??? = The answer is it was Nutty, you got to put your feet up & the slow cooker did the work!

slow-cooked-beef-joint-on-plate — slow cooked beef brisket

Carve the joint, thick or thin — we tried it both ways, and we prefer thin. It doesn't matter either way, because even if you manage to cut slices, they are going to fall apart when you try to pick them up! Promise!!!

beef-joint-sliced — slow cooked beef brisket

We like to return the sliced beef to the gravy and veg — which is actuallly the tastiest of stews that you can possibly make.

Just taste this! nutty-taste-blue

Serving suggestion

Has to be creamy mashed potatoes and sweet heart cabbage to accompany my Slow Cooked Beef Brisket, but, with all this time to consider — it might become horseraddish mash! She thinks smiling Devilishly :->

slow-cooked-beef-brisket-in-serving — slow cooked beef brisket

slow-cooked-beef-brisket-mash-and-cabbage — just taste this combo

Those veg'! The carrots and parsnip have been cooking for 10 - 12 hours, and they are absolutely to die for. Remarkably still holding their shape, but the flavour, oh! man alive, this is a reason to be alive.

Just delicious! nutty-taste-blue

ingredients

serves 4

method

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