Healthy Beef Brisket Recipe

As we get into autumn warming winter dishes such as stews, tagines, soups become more and more appealing. I love these sorts of meals and cook them all the time. They tick all the right boxes for me.

1/ Quick – Its literally a case of chopping up some veg and chucking it all in a casserole dish with the meat/other protein and a few other bits and letting it cook away and do the work for you.

2/ Easy – The cooking time does all the work for you. There is no worrying about under or over cooking stuff, or getting stuff ready at the same time. You really don’t need much cooking experience to cook this type of food.

3/ Healthy – The flavour come from the slow cooking process, so you don’t need to add any unhealthy ingredients to get flavour into it.

4/ Full of Flavour – Most important of all it tastes great. There is no point ticking all the other boxes if the end result lacks in flavour and you don’t enjoy the food.

Ingredients

2 tbsp vegetable oil

beef brisket 1.5/2kg

4 cloves garlic roughly chopped

3 onions thinly sliced

3 carrots roughly chopped

4 stalks of celery roughly chopped

3 parsnips roughly chopped

whole cabbage

plain flour 3 tbsp

2 tbsp mustard

3 tbsp dried mixed herbs

2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

beef stock 750ml or stock cube.

Cooking Instructions

1/ Roll the beef in half the oil and the salt. Put a large frying pan on a medium/high heat and brown on all sides. Then set aside.

2/ Whilst you are doing this sweat down the veg and garlic on a low heat in a casserole dish or large saucepan. If you have 20 mins or so to soften the veg down that would be ideal but not essential.

3/ Add the flour, turn heat down slightly and cook stirring regularly for a couple of minutes.

4/ Then add the stock, worcester sauce, herbs and mustard and bring to the boil.

5/ Put foil over the dish then add the lid to ensure a tight fit.

6/ Put in oven for 3/4 hours at 150 degrees.

7/ Steam the cabbage to go with it and serve with your choice of brown rice, cous cous, pearl barley on the side.

You will get a lot of portions out of this recipe, but it is a great dish to portion up, pop in the freezer and save for a rainy day!

Conclusion – Healthy Beef Brisket Recipe

I honestly think this way of cooking is great for the busy person wanting to still be healthy. Give this a go I can’t believe you won’t love it!

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