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Beef Brisket help

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  • SootySweep1
    SootySweep1 Posts: 243 Forumite
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    Hi
    If I cook brisket it's in the slow cooker with beer, onions & bay leaves.

    However I think the other important thing about brisket is how you carve it so carved across the grain to help stop it being stringy.
    The nature of the cut is a very course textured & stringy so if you just pull it apart it will be stringy.

    Jen
  • Labtebricolist
    Labtebricolist Posts: 61 Forumite
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    Use it to make a chilli - just slow cook in a pot with lid in the oven with all the spices and liquid, about 140 for at least 4 hours, then it will fall apart with a fork.  Add the kidney beans at the end.  Much nicer than using mince.  Same principle applies for a ragu.

    The finished product can also be frozen.
  • Bravepants
    Bravepants Posts: 1,655 Forumite
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    Lady in my local pub made a pot of slow cooked BBQ pulled brisket which was lovely on a bap! I had two, and then some more meat separately. :) 
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