This brisket joint is cooked very slowly in a low oven, tomatoes, barbecue sauce, honey, Worcestershire sauce, stock and smoked paprika. The tender meat is ‘pulled’, before it is shredded to serve. We have served it in a baguette with our homemade cucumber and onion pickle or with creamy mash and the sauce.
Serves: 8
Cooking Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- .3kg/3lb lean brisket joint
- Salt and freshly milled black pepper
- 30ml/2tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
- 2 medium onions, peeled and chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
- 1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 100ml/3½fl oz prepared barbecue sauce
- 30ml/2tbsp runny honey
- 60ml/4tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 300ml/½pint good, hot beef stock
- 10ml/2tsp smoked paprika powder
- Baguettes or bread rolls, to serve
Method:
- Preheat the oven to Gas mark 2, 160°C, 300°F.
- Heat half the oil in a large non-stick frying pan.
- Place the joint on a chopping board and season with salt and pepper all over. Brown the joint on all sides and transfer to a large ovenproof dish.
- Add the remaining oil and cook the onion and garlic for 2-3 minutes until soft. Transfer to the casserole dish with the joint.
- Add the tomatoes, barbecue sauce, honey, Worcestershire sauce, stock and paprika. Bring to the boil, cover and slow roast in the oven for 3-3½hours until the beef is tender.
- Transfer the beef to a clean chopping board and `pull’ the cooked beef apart by securing the joint with a fork and shredding the meat with another fork.
- Pile the pulled brisket in baguettes or rolls, spoon over the sauce and serve with cucumber and onion relish.