Dinner - Nyt corned beef and cabbage recipes
You can certainly eat corned beef with boiled cabbage and carrots, but it can be a great deal more exciting to pile the shredded meat — ruddy pink, salty, fatty and meltingly sweet — into warm flour tortillas, then top it with a bright, crunchy, slightly fiery cabbage slaw. Cure beef brisket in a salty, spiced brine and it becomes savory, tangy and aromatic corned beef.
Corned Beef With Cabbage, Potatoes and Carrots

Cure beef brisket in a salty, spiced brine and it becomes savory, tangy and aromatic corned beef. Get a corned beef made from flat-cut brisket, if you can, as it will be easier to slice into neat, uniform slabs. (The point cut has more striations of fat and may fall apart when sliced.) Braise the meat until tender, and add the vegetables toward the end of the braising time so they’ll absorb the beef juices and soften until perfectly crisp-tender. Finish the beef with a simple honey-mustard glaze and a quick broil to caramelize, then serve it with more Dijon mustard and beer. (Here are slow cooker and pressure cooker versions of the recipe.)
Provided by: Sarah DiGregorio
Total time: 285 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: american, irish
Number of ingredients: 9
Provided by: Sarah DiGregorio
Total time: 285 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: american, irish
Number of ingredients: 9
Ingredients:
- 3 to 3 1/2-pound ready-to-cook corned beef, preferably flat-cut
- 1 1/4 cups semi-dry white wine, such as Riesling
- 1 pound red or Yukon gold potatoes, cut into 1- to 2-inch pieces
- 2 to 3 large carrots (about 1/2 pound), peeled and cut into 1- to 2-inch pieces
- 1/2 small head green or savoy cabbage (about 1 pound), core left intact, cut into 4 wedges
- 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard, plus more for serving
- 2 tablespoons honey
- Flaky sea salt, if necessary
- Black pepper
Nutrition:
- Calories: 972 calories
- Unsaturated Fat: 29 grams
- Carbohydrate: 46 grams
- Fat: 56 grams
- Fiber: 8 grams
- Protein: 60 grams
- Saturated Fat: 18 grams
- Sodium: 4684 milligrams
- Sugar: 15 grams
- Trans Fat: 0 grams
- Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Remove the corned beef from its packaging in the sink and reserve the spice packet. Rinse the beef well under cold running water and pat it dry with paper towels. (If you don’t rinse off the brine, the meat will be too salty.) If there is a substantial fat cap on top of the beef, place the beef on a cutting board and trim most of it, if you’d like. (The fat will not completely render away during cooking.) Be sure to leave at least a thin layer of fat on top, about 1/8- to 1/4-inch thick, to keep the meat moist.
- Transfer the corned beef to a large Dutch oven with the fat cap facing up. Add the wine and the spices from the packet. Cover the pot and transfer to the oven to cook, 3 hours.
- Baste the beef with the cooking liquid. Drop the potatoes and carrots into the liquid surrounding the beef and lay the cabbage wedges on top. Cover and cook until the corned beef and vegetables are tender, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. (A paring knife should slip easily into the beef, but the meat should not be falling apart.)
- Heat the broiler to high. Stir together the mustard and honey in a small bowl. Remove the corned beef from the pot and put it on a foil-lined sheet pan. Spoon the honey-mustard glaze all over the top and sides of the beef and slide it under the broiler. Cook until the glaze bubbles and caramelizes in spots, about 3 minutes.
- Let the corned beef rest for 5 to 10 minutes, then slice it against the grain into 1/2-inch slabs. Place the beef slices on the serving platter alongside the vegetables and drizzle everything with a little bit of the cooking liquid. Taste the vegetables, and season them with flaky sea salt, if necessary. (The beef will not need to be seasoned with salt.) Season the beef and vegetables to taste with black pepper. Serve with Dijon mustard.
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Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage

Corned beef — brisket cured in brine — is beloved for its big, salty, aromatic flavor. It needs to be braised or simmered for a long time to become tender and sliceable, making it an ideal slow cooker dish. Get a corned beef made from flat-cut brisket, if you can, as it will be easier to slice into neat, uniform slabs. (The point cut has more striations of fat and may fall apart when sliced.) Corned beef is often braised in beer, and you could certainly do that, but a slightly sweet wine, like a semi-dry Riesling, balances the beef’s saltiness. Finish with a simple honey-mustard glaze and a quick trip under the broiler. Serve this satisfying one-pot meal with mustard and enjoy with beer. (Here are pressure cooker and oven versions of the recipe.)
Provided by: Sarah DiGregorio
Total time: 495 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: american, irish
Number of ingredients: 9
Provided by: Sarah DiGregorio
Total time: 495 minutes
Yields: 4 servings
Cuisine: american, irish
Number of ingredients: 9
Ingredients:
- 3 to 3 1/2-pound ready-to-cook corned beef, preferably flat-cut
- 1 1/4 cups semi-dry white wine, such as Riesling
- 1 pound red or Yukon gold potatoes, cut into 1- to 2-inch pieces
- 2 to 3 large carrots (about 1/2 pound), peeled and cut into 1- to 2-inch pieces
- 1/2 small head green or savoy cabbage (about 1 pound), core left intact, cut into 4 wedges
- 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard, plus more for serving
- 2 tablespoons honey
- Flaky sea salt, if necessary
- Black pepper
Nutrition:
- Calories: 972 calories
- Unsaturated Fat: 29 grams
- Carbohydrate: 46 grams
- Fat: 56 grams
- Fiber: 8 grams
- Protein: 60 grams
- Saturated Fat: 18 grams
- Sodium: 4684 milligrams
- Sugar: 15 grams
- Trans Fat: 0 grams
- Remove the corned beef from its packaging in the sink and reserve the spice packet. Rinse the beef well under cold running water and pat it dry with paper towels. (If you don’t rinse off the brine, the meat will be too salty.) If there is a substantial fat cap on top of the beef, place the beef on a cutting board and trim most of it, if you’d like. (The fat will not completely render away during cooking.) Be sure to leave at least a thin layer of fat on top, about 1/8- to 1/4-inch thick, to keep the meat moist.
- Transfer the corned beef into a 6- to 8-quart slow cooker with the fat cap facing up. Add the wine and the spices from the packet. Cook on high for 4 hours.
- Reduce the heat to low. Baste the beef with the cooking liquid. Drop the potatoes and carrots into the liquid surrounding the beef. Lay the cabbage wedges on top. Cook on low for 4 hours, or until the vegetables and beef are tender. (A paring knife should slip easily into the beef, though the meat shouldn’t be falling apart.)
- Heat the broiler to high. Stir together the mustard and honey in a small bowl. Using tongs, remove the corned beef from the slow cooker and put it on a foil-lined sheet pan. Spread the honey-mustard all over the top and sides of the beef and place it under the broiler. Cook until the glaze bubbles and caramelizes in spots, about 3 minutes.
- Let the corned beef rest for 5 to 10 minutes then slice it against the grain into 1/2-inch slabs. Place the beef slices on the serving platter alongside the vegetables and drizzle everything with a little bit of the cooking liquid. Taste the vegetables, and season them with flaky sea salt, if necessary. (The beef will not need to be seasoned with salt.) Season the beef and vegetables to taste with black pepper. Serve with Dijon mustard.
Homemade Corned Beef

“The reason to corn your own beef is flavor,” said Michael Ruhlman, a chef and passionate advocate of the process. He wrote about it with Brian Polcyn in their book, “Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing.” “You can achieve tastes that aren’t available in the mass produced versions,” he said. Feel free to experiment with the “pickling spices” called for below — you can customize them, if you like, from a base of coriander seeds, black peppercorns and garlic — but please do not omit the curing salt, which gives the meat immense flavor in addition to a reddish hue. (It’s perfectly safe, Mr. Ruhlman exhorts: “It’s not a chemical additive. Most of the nitrates we eat come in vegetables!”) Finally, if you want a traditional boiled dinner, slide quartered cabbage and some peeled carrots into the braise for the final hour or so of cooking. Or use the meat for Irish tacos.
Provided by: Sam Sifton
Total time: 180 minutes
Yields: 12 servings
Cuisine: irish
Number of ingredients: 8
Provided by: Sam Sifton
Total time: 180 minutes
Yields: 12 servings
Cuisine: irish
Number of ingredients: 8
Ingredients:
- 2 cups coarse kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 5 garlic cloves, smashed
- 5 tablespoons pickling spices
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon pink curing salt (sodium nitrite)
- 1 4- to 5-pound beef brisket
- 2 bottles of good beer
- 2 bottles of good ginger beer
How to cook:
- Brine the brisket: In a medium pot set over high heat, combine about a gallon of water, the salt, the sugar, the garlic, 3 tablespoons pickling spices and the pink curing salt. Stir mixture as it heats until sugar and salt are dissolved, about 1 minute. Transfer liquid to a container large enough for the brine and the brisket, then refrigerate until liquid is cool.
- Place brisket in the cooled liquid and weigh the meat down with a plate so it is submerged. Cover container and place in the refrigerator for 5 days, or up to 7 days, turning every day or so.
- To cook brisket, remove it from the brine and rinse under cool water. Place in a pot just large enough to hold it and cover with one of the beers and one of the ginger beers. If you need more liquid to cover the meat, add enough of the other beer, and the other ginger beer, to do so. Add remaining 2 tablespoons pickling spices. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn heat to low so liquid is barely simmering. Cover and let cook until you can easily insert a fork into the meat, about 3 hours, adding water along the way if needed to cover the brisket.
- Keep warm until serving, or let cool in the liquid and reheat when ready to eat, up to three or four days. Slice thinly and serve on sandwiches, in Irish tacos (see recipe) or with carrots and cabbage simmered until tender in the cooking liquid.
Irish Tacos

You can certainly eat corned beef with boiled cabbage and carrots, but it can be a great deal more exciting to pile the shredded meat — ruddy pink, salty, fatty and meltingly sweet — into warm flour tortillas, then top it with a bright, crunchy, slightly fiery cabbage slaw. The contrast between the soft and the crisp, the salt and the sweet, is fantastic — particularly if you adorn each taco with a few pickled jalapeños and, perhaps, an additional swipe of mayonnaise. It’s not fusion cooking, nor appropriation. It’s just the fact that everything tastes good on a warm tortilla.
Provided by: Sam Sifton
Total time: 30 minutes
Yields: 8 servings
Number of ingredients: 10
Provided by: Sam Sifton
Total time: 30 minutes
Yields: 8 servings
Number of ingredients: 10
Ingredients:
- 2 to 2 1/2 pounds corned beef (see recipe)
- 1 small head of green cabbage, cored and thinly sliced
- 3 carrots, peeled and sliced into julienne
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
- 3 tablespoons cider vinegar
- Kosher salt and ground black pepper, to taste
- 1 1/2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce, or to taste
- 12 to 16 flour tortillas, warmed
- Sliced fresh or pickled jalapeños
Nutrition:
- Calories: 749 calories
- Unsaturated Fat: 34 grams
- Carbohydrate: 51 grams
- Fat: 48 grams
- Fiber: 5 grams
- Protein: 28 grams
- Saturated Fat: 11 grams
- Sodium: 2461 milligrams
- Sugar: 7 grams
- Trans Fat: 0 grams
- Warm the corned beef in its cooking liquid, or wrap it in foil and set on a sheet pan in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes or so.
- Make the coleslaw: Mix cabbage and carrots together in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, yogurt or sour cream, cider vinegar, salt, pepper and hot pepper sauce to taste.
- Pour half the sauce over the cabbage and carrots and toss to coat thoroughly. Season to taste. Reserve remaining sauce.
- When the corned beef is hot, remove from liquid or foil and use two forks to shred it. Serve with the warmed tortillas, sliced jalapeños, the slaw, remaining white sauce and some hot pepper sauce.