My Mother made Corned Beef and Cabbage every St. Patrick’s Day. This is an homage to her and my Irish ancestors.
This is a complete meal, and one Irish dish my Mom made every St Patrick’s Day. We loved it. The corned beef makes great leftovers too. Mostly I remember my dad loved corned beef hash with the leftovers for a special Sunday breakfast or a grilled Reuben sandwich.
An alternate to the Crispy Smashed Potatoes noted in the recipe, serve the Corned Beef and Cabbage with traditional Mashed Potatoes. Food Blogger Olivia Rose at MyFoodKing.com wrote a great blog about How to Make the Best Mashed Potatoes in 2017. My Loaded Cheesy Crockpot Mashed Potatoes is included!
For something different serve these Crispy Smashed Red Potatoes on the side.
Oven Baked Corned Beef with Guinness, Braised Cabbage & Carrots and Crispy Smashed Red Potatoes for St. Patrick's Day
This is a complete meal, and one Irish dish my Mom made every St Patrick's Day. We loved it. The corned beef makes great leftovers too. Mostly I remember my dad loved corned beef hash with the leftovers for a special Sunday breakfast or a grilled Reuben sandwich.
Ingredients
CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE
- 3 - 4 lbs. cured uncooked beef brisket, rinsed well, patted dry
- 1/2 onion
- 1 head garlic halved
- 1 pint 6 oz Guinness Dark Stout beer
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 4 cups water
- 1 tablespoon pickling spice don’t use the packet that came with beef
- 1 tsp. Peppercorns
- 1 tsp. Coriander seeds
- 1 tsp. mustard seeds
- 10 whole cloves
- 2 bay leaf
- 5 cardamom pods
- 1 head cabbage cut into wedges
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 4-5 carrots cut into 3/4-inch chunks
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
SMASHED POTATOES
- 12 -18 whole red potatoes 3 lbs
- 1 TB olive oil
- 3 TB melted butter
- Kosher salt & black pepper to taste
- Fresh thyme
Instructions
- CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE
- Heat the oven to 300F.
- Place the rinsed and dry corned beef brisket, onion half and whole garlic head in a large dutch oven pot.
- Mix the beer and the brown sugar in a glass bowl.
- Mix the peppercorns, coriander and mustard seeds, cloves, and bay leaf to make the pickling spice.
- Add the pickling spice to the beer mix, and pour it all over the beef. The brisket should be almost covered by the liquid. Add more water if needed. Bring to a simmer on the stove. Watch it closely so the beer does not bubble over.
- Once it begins simmering, cover the pot and place in oven to roast for 4-6 hours, flipping meat once during halfway point. Remove from oven. Spoon out 1 cup of the corned beef braising liquid to cook the cabbage. Place the brisket on a plate, cover with foil, and let rest while the vegetables cook.
- Turn your oven up to 450 degrees to get ready for the potatoes.
- While the oven is heating, start the vegetables, cut the cabbage into 8 wedges. In a separate large, wide pot, heat up butter on medium-high heat. When hot, add the cabbage wedges and cook until browned, about a 3-4 minutes. Turn to brown the other side. Add in the carrots. Pour in reserved corned beef cooking liquid, cover and bring to a simmer. Uncover, and turn the heat to low and let cook for 10-15 minutes until the liquid is gone and the vegetables are caramelized and cooked through. Pierce with fork to check doneness. Sprinkle with parsley.
SMASHED POTATOES
- Bring a pot of salted (1 TB) water to a boil. Add the potatoes and boil until they are just tender.
- On a sheet pan, generously drizzle olive oil. Place the hot potatoes on the cookie sheet leaving enough room between each potato.
- With a potato masher, gently press down each potato until it slightly mashes, rotate the potato masher 90 degrees and mash again. Brush the tops of each crushed potato generously with more olive oil.
- Sprinkle potatoes with kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper and fresh chopped thyme.
- Bake in a 450 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until crispy and toasty brown.
- Slice the corned beef across the grain and serve with the cabbage, carrots
- and smashed potatoes. Garnish with parsley.
- Serve with Horseradish sauce or stone-ground mustard on the side, and a plate of Irish Soda Bread and Irish butter. Of course wash it down with a Guinness.
- Happy St Pat’s!
Why, in step 7, do you “spoon out 2 cups of liquid to cook the cabbage” and then, in step 9, you only use 1/2 cup of the liquid in cooking the cabbage? What happened to the rest of the 2 cups of liquid you’re supposed to save? In step 9, why do you “bring pot to a simmer and cover”, when the very next word is “Uncover”? Why did you cover it? Are you supposed to cook it for some period of time before uncovering it? Maybe someone should proofread these recipes to make sure that they make sense..
Thank you for the feedback. I updated the recipe to reserve 1 cup of cooking liquid, and add it to the cabbage. I also changed the instruction to say” Cover and bring to a simmer”. Hope that clarifies, and that you enjoy it!
For corned beef and cabbage this is the best!