Home Cured Corned Beef

Name: Home Cured Corned Beef
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp whole allspice berries; 1 Tbsp whole mustard seeds (brown or yellow); 1 Tbsp coriander seeds; 1 Tbsp red pepper flakes; 1 Tbsp whole black peppercorns; 9 whole cardamom pods; 6 larges bay leaves, crumbled; 2 teaspoons ground ginger; 1 sticks cinnamon; 4 liters gallon water; 300 grams Kosher salt (2 cups of Diamond Crystal brand Kosher Salt OR 1 cup 3 1/2 tablespoons of Mortons Kosher Salt); 5 teaspoons pink curing salt (optional); 3 Tbsps pickling spices; 90 grams 1/2 cup brown sugar; 2 kilograms beef brisket; 1 Tbsp pickling spices

Home Cured Corned Beef could be just the gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly recipe you've been looking for. This main course has 4133 calories, 480g of protein, and 178g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 76% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 3 hours. This recipe from Simply Recipes requires pickling spices, water, coriander seeds, and cinnamon.

Instructions

Toast and crush spices: You can either used store-bought pickling spices or you can make your own. To make your own, toast the allspice berries, mustard seeds, coriander seeds, red pepper flakes, peppercorns, cloves, and cardamom pods in a small frying pan on medium heat until fragrant. Note that it is pretty easy to burn spices; you want enough heat to release their flavors, not so much that they get burned.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Allspice Berries

Whole Coriander Seeds

Pickling Spices

Cardamom Pods

Mustard Seeds

Peppercorns

Clove

Spices

Toast

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Frying Pan

Remove from heat and place in a small bowl. Use a mortar and pestle to crush the spices a little (or the back of a spoon or the side of a knife on a flat surface).

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Spices

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Mortar And Pestle

Knife

Bowl

Add to a small bowl and stir in the crumbled bay leaves and ground ginger.

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Ginger Powder

Bay Leaves

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Bowl

Make curing brine with spices, salts, sugar, water:

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Spices

Brine

Sugar

Water

Add about 3 Tbsp of the spice mix (reserve the rest for cooking the corned beef after it has cured), plus the half stick of cinnamon, to a gallon of water in a large pot, along with the Kosher salt, pink salt (if using), and brown sugar. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat and let cool to room temperature. Then refrigerate until well chilled.

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Brown Sugar

Corned Beef

Salt

Seasoning Mix

Cinnamon

Water

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Pot

Place the brisket in a large, flat container or pan, and cover with the brine. The brine should cover the meat. The meat may float in which case you may want to weigh it down with a plate.

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Brine

Meat

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Frying Pan

Alternatively you can use a 2-gallon freezer bag (placed in a container so if it leaks it doesn't leak all over your refrigerator), place the brisket in the freezer bag and about 2 quarts of brine, squeezing out the air from the bag before sealing.

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Brine

Place in the refrigerator and chill from 5-7 days. Every day flip the brisket over, so that all sides get brined equally.

Cook cured meat: At the end of the cure, remove the brisket from the brine and rinse off the brine with cold water.

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Brine

Water

Meat

Place the brisket in a large pot that just fits around the brisket and cover with at least one inch of water. If you want your brisket less salty, add another inch of water to the pot.

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Water

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Pot

Add a tablespoon of the pickling spices to the pot. Bring to a boil, reduce to a very low simmer (barely bubbling), and cook 3-4 hours, until the corned beef is fork tender. (At this point you can store in the fridge for up to a week.)

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Pickling Spices

Corned Beef

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Pot

Remove the meat to a cutting board. (You can use the spiced cooking liquid to cook vegetables for boiled dinner or corned beef and cabbage.) Notice the visible lines on the meat; this is the "grain" of the meat, or the direction of the muscle fibers.

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Corned Beef

Vegetable

Cabbage

Grains

Meat

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Cutting Board

To make the meat easier to cut, cut it first in half, along the grain of the meat. Then make thin crosswise cuts, across the grain to cut the meat to serve.

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Grains

Meat