Beef Brisket
Receipt modified from cafedelites.com/beef-brisket/
Seasoning Ingredients & instructions
Seasoning Ingredients:
2 tsp heaped tomato paste
3 tsp heaped dry mustard
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp smoked paprika
3 tsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
½ tsp ground cumin
Salt
Honey to finish
Slow Cooker instructions
- Combine seasoning ingredients, together with a little oil.
- Rub all over the brisket.
- Slow cook on low for 8-10 hours, or high for 4-5 hours.
- Finish as below.
Oven Cooking instructions
- Combine seasoning ingredients.
- Rub all over brisket.
- Add 1 cup beef broth (stock) and 1 cup water to roasting dish
- Place in brisket
Cover tightly with foil (or snug lid) - Bake on 175 degC for 1st hour
- Reduce temperature to 150 degC and continue baking for 3-4 hours
Finishing Instructions
- Pour off cooking liquids
- Use ¼ – ½ cup of cooking liquids and mix with the honey (approx half honey to cooking liquids).
- (If slowed cooked, take brisket from slow cooker and place in warmed roasting tray).
- Baste half the honey/cooking liquids onto brisket.
- Grill until beginning to crispen.
- Repeat and grill again until sticky and slightly charred.
- Rest for 10mins to allow juices to recirculate through the meat.
- The cooking liquids remaining after baking can be reduced, or made into a gravy should you wish.
- To serve, slice the brisket thinly across the grain, or simply “pull-apart”