Slow cooker brisket is meltingly tender and so delicious you'll want to make it your go-to Sunday roast recipe, but it practically cooks itself in a slow cooker. Serve it with your favourite buttery greens and mash for a French bistro style (or roast potatoes and all the trimmings, if you fancy). You don't need a slow cooker to make this brisket recipe - you can just as easily make it in the oven, you just need to have some patience with it and leave it in for long enough to become perfectly tender and juicy. One of our favourite slow cooker recipes, it's well worth the wait, we promise.
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Ingredients
- 1 large onion, finely sliced
- 4 sprigs thyme
- 2kg brisket
- 3tbsp wholegrain mustard
- 1tbsp green peppercorn mustard (we used Maille)
- 200g shallots, peeled
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled
- 200ml warm beef stock
- 200ml Cognac
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Method
- Scatter the sliced onion and most of the thyme over the base of the slow cooker. Rub the brisket with salt and pepper, then the mustards and put on top of the onions then scatter around the shallots and garlic.
- Pour over the warm stock and Cognac and cover with the lid. Turn the slow cooker to high and leave for 6 hours, until the meat is meltingly tender. Or, if you don't have a slow cooker, heat the oven to 140C, gas 1, put the ingredients in a deep casserole dish, then cover with wet greaseproof paper and pop the lid on.
- Sprinkle with the remaining thyme and serve with creamy mashed potato, buttery green beans and the cooking sauce.
Jessica is a freelance food writer, stylist and recipe tester. She previously worked as Senior Food Writer at Future. While at Future Jessica wrote food and drink-related news stories and features, curated product pages, reviewed equipment, and developed recipes that she then styled on food shoots. She is an enthusiastic, self-taught cook who adores eating out and sharing great food and drink with friends and family. She has completed the Level 1 Associate course at the Academy of Cheese and is continually building on her knowledge of beers, wines, and spirits.
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