Nanas Brisket Recipes

NACH WAXMAN'S BRISKET OF BEEF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Lightly dust the brisket with flour, then sprinkle with pepper to taste. Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a large ovenproof enameled cast-iron pot or other heavy pot with a lid just large enough to hold the brisket snugly. Add the brisket to the pot and brown on both sides until crusty brown areas appear on the surface here and there, 5 to 7 minutes per side. Transfer the brisket to a platter, turn up the heat a bit, then add the onions to the pot and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, scraping up any browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pot. Cook until the onions have softened and developed a rich brown color but aren't yet caramelized, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Turn off the heat and place the brisket and any accumulated juices on top of the onions.
• Spread the tomato paste over the brisket as if you were icing a cake. Sprinkle with salt and more pepper to taste, then add the garlic and carrot to the pot. Cover the pot, transfer to the oven, and cook the brisket for 1 1/2 hours.
• Transfer the brisket to a cutting board and, using a very sharp knife, slice the meat across the grain into approximately 1/8-inch-thick slices. Return the slices to the pot, overlapping them at an angle so that you can see a bit of the top edge of each slice. The end result should resemble the original unsliced brisket leaning slightly backward. Check the seasonings and, if absolutely necessary, add 2 to 3 teaspoons of water to the pot.
• Cover the pot and return to the oven. Lower the heat to 325°F and cook the brisket until it is fork-tender, about 2 hours. Check once or twice during cooking to make sure that the liquid is not bubbling away. If it is, add a few more teaspoons of water-but not more. Also, each time you check, spoon some of the liquid on top of the roast so that it drips down between the slices.
• It is ready to serve with its juices, but, in fact, it's even better the second day.

CROCKPOT BRISKET (LOW CARB, S)

Steps:

• Place the brisket in the crockpot lean side up and pour 2 tablespoons of the beef broth/onion solution over the top then slather it with 1 tablespoon of the mustard and flip it over carefully. (If you're using fresh chopped onion just add them to the top of the fat side of the meat once you get the other ingredients added). Repeat the same process with the top of the brisket on the fat side. Cook on in the crock pot on low overnight (8 hours). Skim the mustard and seasonings from the top of the brisket and mix with the pan juices in the pot. Peel off fat and discard it. *(Note: it is not a lot of fat as shown in the picture and my husband did not want ours discarded so you see how it looks if you leave it on.) Remove the brisket to a separate dish *If you slice it now it will shred a little, I refrigerated it to get it to slice as shown and I used an electric knife to slice it because I didn't have a super sharp knife so it's your choice, it is yummy either way). Drain the juices into a gravy separator and save the meat juices and discard the fat. * (Alternately refrigerate the pan juices and skim off the fat later if you don't own a separator). When you get ready to serve the meat just heat the juices to very hot on the stove and whisk in enough baking blend to thicken (2 tablespoons per cup of liquid) or as I mentioned just pour some of the juice over the top of the meat and let it soak in, the juice is where a lot of the flavor will be but it absorbs back into the meat very easily. *Gravy tips: I love thickening with THM's baking blend! But at higher concentrations, it can get a little grainy. This is easily solved by putting the gravy into a blender or mini processor or using an immersions blender on the sauce. I have used a lower concentration of blend to meat juice in this recipe and had to problems at all. I normally mix some form of cheese into the gravy/sauces and that takes care of it, but I did not want to do that with this gravy so I left it thinner.

NANA'S BRISKET

Steps:

• Trim some of the fat from the brisket and brown it in olive oil.
• Rub Brown Seasoning, paprika, salt and pepper onto the brisket.
• Put 1/2 cup chicken broth, 2 of the sliced onions and the garlic on the bottom of a crock pot.
• Place the seasoned brisket on top, and cover with the remaining onions.
• Cook on high for about 6 hours.
• Remove the meat and slice thinly on the crossgrain.
• Place sliced meat back in the crockpot with the remaining 1/2 cup chicken broth.
• Cook for about another hour until the beef is tender but not falling apart.
• Serve with kasha varnishkes.