Store-bought corned beef recipes

March 9, 2022 5:21 PM

I'm making a store-bought corned beef this year, and I'd like recipes to make it better than "good enough." I'd like to make cabbage, carrots, and potatoes with it. Please give me your complete recipes (not just suggestions for improvement).

Someday I'll get into salting it myself, but not this year.

I've seen this thread, but those are mostly suggestions to improve a recipe, not end-to-end recipes.

I could just Google this but so many recipe sites have mediocre recipes just for clicks I don't really trust them anymore, so I'm looking for recipes Mefites can vouch for.

I've done corned beef in the crock pot and in a dutch oven, and I don't remember which turned out better. I don't have a pressure cooker so that's out.

posted by Tehhund to Food & Drink (4 answers total)

I like this method, and I prefer to use red cabbage.
posted by sulaine at 7:07 PM on March 9, 2022

Serious Eats always has a too-complicated recipe which is wonderful, along with suggestions of how to simplify the recipe. Read their corned beef recipe. You don't have to corn your own beef as they do, but the detailed discussion of cooking technique, time, etc. is very good. I can't remember ever having a bad recipe from that site.
posted by blob at 9:20 PM on March 9, 2022

I’ve made Alton Brown’s corned beef recipe a number of times, starting with a corned beef from the grocery store. I like it a lot. (That is, I start with step2, which is “boil the corned beef”)
posted by leahwrenn at 10:32 PM on March 9, 2022

This is mine, which every year makes me go "oh, yeah, why don't I make this more often?" The carrots are a star, the veggies get so much flavor from the broth. It's a slow cooker recipe, fair warning.

1 corned beef brisket or round or whatever. Cut off the worst of the fatty chunks.
2 lb carrots, cut into large bite size pieces.
4-5 potatoes, quartered or similar to the carrots in size
1 yellow onion, cut into ~8ths or so.
1 regular or 2 small heads cabbage, cut into wedges

layer in slow cooker or instant pot:
- onions
- potatoes
- carrots
- brisket
add seasoning packet, or just extra mustard seeds and bay leaves if it's already seasoned.
add water to cover or mostly cover the brisket

Slow cook for 8 hours at medium heat. Then add in the cabbage (can take out other veggies to make it fit) and cook for another hour or half hour. Or turn up the heat and simmer/boil, to save time.
posted by Lady Li at 11:46 PM on March 9, 2022