2018 St. Patrick dinner

This corned beef & cabbage dinner was set back for a day so that a friend could share and then watch the races afterwords. This is the easiest and tastiest way of fixing this classic dish. It is based on a New England Boil Dinner and latter adopted by the Irish in America as the dish of Saint Patrick's Day.

Packaged beef brisket, carrots, a can of new potatoes make this a snap. Roasting the cabbage gives a new a taste and lets you forgo the slimy stuff.

Ingredients:

2 – 3 lbs beef brisket

packet of spices or 1 Tbs pickling spice

4 cloves garlic sliced

1 medium onion.

1 lbs baby carrots

1 can new potatoes

3 cups chicken broth

2 Tbs brown sugar

2 Tbs cider vinegar

head of cabbage

4 slices bacon – cut in half

olive oil

Directions:

This meal is super easy but takes 8 – 9 hours in slow cooker, so plan accordingly. You might want to do your cutting the night before! 

 

Cut the onion in wedges. Peel and slice garlic.

Wipe out the slow cooker and spray with cooking spray. Set on low.

Open brisket – keep the spice packet. Pat the beef dry with paper towels.

Arrange onion wedges in bottom of pot and place brisket on top.

Mix the chicken broth with vinegar & brown sugar. Pour over beef.

Sprinkle with garlic and contents of spice packet. Cover and let cook for 5 of the 8 hours necessary.

 At the 5 hour mark add the carrots & potatoes - this way they wont turn into mush. Re-cover and continue to cook.

At the 7 hour mark start the cabbage.

Pre-heat oven to 450

1 head green cabbage, outer leaves removed

Olive oil

Coarse kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

4 slices thick bacon, 6 to 8 ounces

Cut the cabbage into eight wedges and slice the bottom of each piece at an angle to partially remove the stem core. Lay these down on a large roasting pan or baking sheet and drizzle very lightly with olive oil. Sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
Cut each slice of bacon into half and lay on top of the cabbage.

Roast for 30 minutes, flipping the cabbage wedges once halfway through. If the edges aren't browned enough for your taste after 30 minutes, put them back in for five-minute increments until they are.

Slice brisket thinly across grain (let it cool 5- 10 minutes for easier slicing) 
 

Serve each dish with some slices of corned beef brisket, a cabbage wedge, and some of the vegetables from the slow cooker on the side. You can also choose to spoon the juices from the slow cooker over the sliced brisket.

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What an easy way to a gourmet holiday dinner that Master's guests will be talking about all year! No More soggy cabbage!

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