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Corned Beef Brisket in Guinness Recipe

This corned beef braises in guinness and tomatoes for 3 hours and results in the most tender, juicy, falling apart, perfect sauce you can make!
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 3 hrs
Total Time 3 hrs 20 mins
Course Dinner
Cuisine Irish

Ingredients
  

  • 1 2-3 lb corned beef brisket seasoning discarded
  • 2-3 tbsp butter
  • 2 onions, diced
  • 2 celery stalks, diced
  • 2 carrots, diced
  • 10 garlic cloves, minced
  • 6 sprigs of thyme
  • 1 28-oz can crushed tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 2 cans of Guinness
  • 1 head of cabbage, cut into 8ths
  • salt & pepper to taste see notes

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Heat dutch oven or oven proof pot over medium-high heat, melting the butter. 
  • Brown all sides of the brisket, about 8-10. Set aside.
  • To the pot, add onions, carrot, celery, garlic, thyme and sautee until softened. 
  • Add tomatoes and tomato paste; stir until vegetables are coated. Add Guinness. Taste for salt & pepper - SEE NOTES 
  • Place the brisket back in the pot; nestle the cabbage around the brisket in a cirle.
  • Bake in the oven for 3 - 3 1/2 hours until tender. 
  • Serve immediately, or allow to cool for 4 hours and cover and refrigerate. To reheat, bake for 1- 1 1/2 hours at 325. Skim fat from top of sauce and serve. 

Notes

Corned beef brisket is quite salty. You will want to account for this when you are tasting your base sauce for salt & pepper. I only added maybe 1/2 tsp of salt to the tomatoes and it came out perfectly. I also salted the veg base with about 1/4 tsp of salt.
Keyword braise, brisket