1.5Kg beef brisket help!!

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Given as a gift and I hve NO IDEA how to cook it, recipes please

try this

I wish people would give me meat as a gift

Do you have a slow cooker?

If so seal the joint in a frying pan with some onions. Then put it in the slow cooker, pour some stock into the frying pan with a big glass of red wine and stir. When the stock is hot pour it into the slow cooker. Add bay leaves and a bit of black pepper. Leave it on high until it is simmering slightly round the edges and then turn to low. Keep cooking it for a good 6hrs or so.

Bloody lovely!

hmm no slow cooker i thought in my stupidity i could just roast it and i have to casarole dishes big enough

I'd do like OrmIrian and slow cook it. I'd do it with all wine though You could do it with your oven on low aswell.

Beef brisket is lovely.

If you wanted to you could also chop it into chunks and use it for any recipe that uses stewing/braising steak.

DH rolls brisket in a mixture of dark brown sugar and chilli then roasts with onions on a low heat for 3-4 hours. Tastes amazing.

OrmIrian's recipe is good. You can also do it in the oven if you don't have a slow cooker. Do just as she says, but put it all in a casserole. Cover with tinfoil, then put the lid on the casserole. Cook at mediumish heat until liquid is bubbling, then turn down to very low and cook for about 3h.

I then take the meat out, pour everything else into a saucepan, and put the meat back in the casserole. Cover the casserole and put a newspaper and a towel over to keep it warm while making the gravy. Fish out the bayleaf, liquidise the stock and onions, add a tablespoonful of flour and simmer, stirring well, until thickened.

Serve with roast potatoes, carrots, and greens.

We've stopped buying expensive joints of beef as this recipe is just so good and has so much more flavour.

how bad would it be to just roast it

Your casserole dish may be big enough. The meat will shrink a bit as it cooks, and you can always top it up with a bit of boiling hot stock if you think it needs (tho it rarely does).

OMDB that link is brilliant!!! Er, sorry OP, never cooked brisket before.

meg - brisket can be quite tough and it isn't usually recommended for roasting. That is why it's a cheaper cut. You can braise in the oven but you need liquid with it so you need a dish with some sort of sides rather than a flatter roasting tin. Ideally cover it too.

Could you cut it in half and use on of your smaller casserole dishes.

It makes a lovely gravy!

You do need to cook it slowly and with some liquid.

megclearly roast beef brisket recipe here

Delia does a great pot roast, nice 'n easy.

This is not the one I usually make (I do the one from Complete Cookery Course) but it looks pretty good. I'd throw in a few veggies with the meat - shallots, 1/2 celery stalks, baby carrots and let them braise at the same time. The red onion marmalade would be optional, but nice, I think.

well thought i would report back, I ha dto cut the brisket in half to fit it into my tiny dish.

I sealed it like one recipe here suggested had never done that before felt very cheflike

Then had a veg stock cube, no beef one, chopped up an onion and flung the lot in a pot in the oven and left it for two and a half hours.

Rang DH and said don't rush home (had promised roast beef dinner) and every time I checked it over the afternoon it was like leather cooking.

Lifted it out let it settle and it was fab. I nearly fainted.

I just wanted to say thanks for the advice I really didn't want to waste it.

Yay!