Corned Beef & Cabbage – Slow Cooker or Stove Top
It isn’t St. Patrick’s Day without this centerpiece to your Irish dinner.
INGREDIENTS for your Slow Cooker method
4 large carrots, chopped
10-12 small to medium red potatoes, cut into quarters
Large onion cut into small wedges
Bay Leaf, three fresh chopped
6 oz. Irish beer, we like Guinness
4 cups water or 3 cups water and one cup beef broth
Small green cabbage cut into wedges
4-pound corned beef brisket with spice packet
SLOW COOKER DIRECTIONS
Place potatoes, carrots and half the onion wedges in the bottom of your crock pot or slow cooker. Add the water and rest the brisket on top of the veggies. Add the beer, the chopped bay leaf, the spice packet contents and the rest of the onions.
Cover and set the cooker timer to 7 hours. Then add the cabbage wedges and cook for another hour. When finished, you can set the slow cooker to “keep warm” until ready to serve.
INGREDIENTS for your stove top method
Note: If you prefer, do not include potatoes when cooking your corned beef brisket. Instead, serve with our Irish Colcannon potatoes recipe provided in our recipes section.
4 large carrots, chopped
10-12 small to medium red potatoes, cut into quarters
Large onion cut into small wedges
Bay Leaf, three fresh chopped
4 cups water or 3 cups water and one cup beef broth
Small green cabbage cut into wedges
4-pound corned beef brisket with spice packet
STOVE TOP DIRECTIONS
Place brisket into a large stock pot, probably about 8 quart size. Pour in liquids and make sure meat is thoroughly covered with the liquid. Add copped bay leaf and spice packet. If you like, add a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar, too.
Cover and bring to a boil then simmer for about 50 minutes per pound of beef until meat is very tender. Add carrots and and potatoes (if you are cooking with the meat) and cook until vegetables are almost tender. Now add cabbage and cook for another 20 minutes or so.
When preparing to serve, slice meat across the grain. Place on a platter and fill a bowl with the vegetables and some of the cooking liquid from the pot.
