Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds small red potatoes
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 (4 lb.) corned beef brisket with seasoning packet, rinsed, trimmed
- 2 whole cloves
- 1 small onion
- 24 baby carrots
- 1 small white cabbage, cut into 8 wedges
Preparation
Step 1
Arrange potatoes and garlic on bottom of slow cooker. Place corned beef on top of vegetables and sprinkle with seasoning from packet. Push cloves into onion and add to cooker. Add enough water to just cover meat; cover and cook on low until tender, 6 hours and 30 minutes to 8 hours.
Transfer meat to cutting board and cover with foil to keep warm. Transfer potatoes to bowl and cover with foil to keep warm. Add carrots and cabbage to cooker, turn to high, cover and cook until just tender, about 30 minutes.
Slice beef across grain and serve with potatoes, carrots and cabbage.
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REVIEWS:
As corned beef and cabbage goes, this recipe is decent...for the corned beef and cabbage. And the potatoes, too. The carrots, however, would not cook. We surmised that we just had mutant carrots, but when we added them to the crock pot and turned it up to high they just weren't cooking. We ended up boiling them on the stove and they still weren't done after an additional half hour (one hour total). So I blame those particular carrots because I've never seen carrots take that long to cook. Also, my roast was a little bit under 4 pounds and I had a hard time fitting all of this in my crock pot, nevermind covering everything with water. I don't have a small crock pot. I think it's 6 quarts. I had to rearrange things a few times to make sure they cooked evenly.
This is great -- not overcooked. Be sure to cut off as much as the fat as possible from the top of the meat and to rinse it like no tomorrow to avoid it being oversalted. I steamed the cabbage and carrots in the microwave for 20 minutes and used frozen pearl onions to sub for the big onion.
My favorite way to cook this. Sour dough bread goes good with it.
I did 2 crockpots on this, on low for 8 hours. It was perfectly tasty and tender. I left out the cloves and added more root veggies than called for. Was delicious.
Tasted great and was so easy to prepare. I did not have enough room in my slow cooker for the potatoes so I boiled them separately. I also had problems with the carrots not cooking in the designated time and so I would amend that the next time I make it and cook it separately as well. I served it with Irish soda bread.