Guinness Corned Beef
- 4 pounds Corned Beef Brisket With Spice Packet Included
- 1/2 cups Brown Sugar
- 12 ounces, fluid Guinness Stout Beer
- 4 cups Beef Broth, Divided
- 6 whole Carrots, Peeled And Cut Into 2" Chunks
- 2 cups Very Small Red Potatoes
- 1 head Cabbage
- Butter, To Taste
- Salt And Pepper, to taste
- Place corned beef, fat side down, in a large Dutch oven.
- Coat the top with half of the brown sugar.
- Flip the brisket over and coat the fatty side with the remaining brown sugar.
- Pour the Guinness around the meat, adding just enough beef broth till brisket is almost completely immersed.
- The fatty top of the brisket will be visible above the liquid.
- Reserve remaining broth for later.
- Sprinkle the contents of the spice packet over the brisket.
- Place Dutch oven over high heat and bring to a boil.
- Reduce to low, cover pot, and simmer for 3 hours.
- Remove cooked brisket to a cutting board and cover with foil.
- Add carrots and potatoes to the cooking liquid in the Dutch oven, adding remaining beef broth so that vegetables are almost covered.
- Increase heat to high to bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium-low, cover pot and simmer vegetables till fork tender, about 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cut cabbage into about 6 sections.
- Remove cooked vegetables to a serving dish and place sections of cabbage into the cooking liquid.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, for about 5 minutes or until cabbage has softened.
- Remove cabbage to serving dish.
- Dot vegetables and cabbage with a little butter and season with salt.
- Slice off fatty layer from corned beef and slice into 1/2 slices.
- Serve with cabbage, carrots, and potatoes with butter, salt, and pepper on the side.
brisket, brown sugar, stout, beef broth, carrots, red potatoes, cabbage, butter, salt
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/guinness-corned-beef-2/ (may not work)