Cooking time/temp for Guinness-Braised Beef Brisket

[Bawstinn]

The recipe says to cook it on HIGH for 8 hours. Is it really OK on high? I want to make it while I am at work, but fear that it might be burned when I get home!

Maria

Guinness-Braised Beef Brisket

Tender from gentle cooking, this entrée is a classic preparation made without the usual pot watching. Serve it with grainy, coarse-ground mustard. Use the leftovers in classic Rueben sandwiches: sliced corned beef with Thousand Island dressing, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on sourdough, rye, or pumpernickel bread.


2 cups water
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped carrot
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup Guinness stout
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/4 cup chopped fresh or 1 tablespoon dried dill
1 (14 1/2-ounce) can low-salt beef broth
6 black peppercorns
2 whole cloves
1 (3-pound) cured corned beef brisket, trimmed

Combine first 11 ingredients in a large electric slow cooker, stirring until well blended; top with beef. Cover and cook on HIGH 8 hours or until beef is tender. Remove beef; cut diagonally across grain into 1/4-inch slices. Discard broth mixture.

Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 3 ounces)

CALORIES 226 (39% from fat); FAT 9.7g (satfat 3.2g, monofat 4.7g, polyfat 0.4g); PROTEIN 17.9g; CARBOHYDRATE 15.2g; FIBER 0.9g; CHOLESTEROL 87mg; IRON 2.2mg; SODIUM 1105mg; CALCIUM 28mg;

Cooking Light, MARCH 2003

[kcmo727]

Maria,

I have not made this particular recipe but I think that is a normal cooking time for a slow cooker recipe. What I usually do with crock pot brisket or pot roast recipes is to brown the meat first in a saute pan. This can be quite a balacing feat if your meat weighs several pounds, then put it in the crock pot, cook it on high a few hours, then drop it to low for another two or three hours. Cooking it on high for eight hours would probably give you the same result. I just prefer the taste and look of meat that has been browned. Good luck!

[gracey]

I made this last year with really great results. I followed the cooking time/temp without trouble -- and I have one of those crockpots that usually cooks quicker than planned on a normal day.

[Bawstinn]

Thanks -- I usually don't have a problem leaving the crock pot on. This one had me curious because it calls for 8 hours on HIGH. Never left it on high that long before!

Thanks --

Maria

[JanetB]

I did high for a few hours while I was home and then low for 8 hours - and it seemed to be fine.

[Kuvy]

I made this on Saturday and put it on low at midnight for a noon lunch the next day - it was perfect (SUPER fatty though - yeuck).

:o

[sneezles]

Originally posted by Kuvy
I made this on Saturday and put it on low at midnight for a noon lunch the next day - it was perfect (SUPER fatty though - yeuck).

:o

I have a wonderful recipe for corned beef but it takes 3 days but it's not the least bit fatty and if there are ever any leftovers it makes superb sandwiches!