Description
A slow cooker recipe for some traditional-style Irish corned beef and cabbage that smells as good as it tastes. Sweet potatoes are added for those whose diet prefers them.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ (12 fluid ounce) cans or bottles Irish stout beer (such as Guinness®), divided
- 1 (4 pound) corned beef brisket
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- 3 sweet potatoes, cut into chunks
- 1 head cabbage, cored and coarsely chopped
- 2 large sweet onions, chopped
- 6 large carrots, chopped
- 3 red potatoes, cut into chunks
Instructions
- Pour 1 bottle Irish stout beer into a slow cooker.
- Rinse corned beef brisket and pat dry. Rub with brown sugar
- including the bottom
- and gently place brisket into the slow cooker with the stout beer.
- Arrange sweet potatoes
- cabbage
- onion
- carrots
- and red potatoes on and around the brisket in the slow cooker.
- Pour remaining 1/2 bottle Irish stout beer on and around brisket and vegetables to moisten the brown sugar. Cover the cooker and cook on Low until corned beef is tender
- 6 to 8 hours. Allow brisket to stand 5 minutes before slicing.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 6 hrs
Total Time: 6 hrs 30 mins
Servings: 16