Main Dishes

Corned Beef & Cabbage

Source: Family recipe

Ingredients

  • ~20 boiling onions, peeled
  • 2 lbs small red potatoes
  • 1 lb carrots
  • 3 lb corned beef brisket (with spice packet)
  • 1–2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 3 tbsp molasses
  • 3 tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 1 lager beer
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 head cabbage, cut into wedges

Directions

  1. Place peeled boiling onions on the bottom of a large crock pot.
  2. Add potatoes and carrots on top of the onions.
  3. Place corned beef brisket on top.
  4. In a bowl, whisk together garlic, molasses, Dijon mustard, and beer. Pour over brisket.
  5. Add bay leaves and the brisket’s spice packet.
  6. Cook on low all day (8–10 hours).
  7. About 1 hour before serving, parboil cabbage wedges in 1–2 inches of water first, then add to the crock pot for the last hour. (Do not cook cabbage all day — it will make the dish taste like sulphur.)