🥬 What Makes This Recipe So Good
This is a whole meal, cooked right in the slow cooker! Savory meat with 3 types of veggies means you don’t have to scramble for sides to pair with your entrée. It’s so easy to cook corned beef in the Crockpot, and thanks to the low and slow cooking method, it comes out unbelievably tender and juicy every single time. Instead of tossing everything in the slow cooker right from the beginning, we stagger the veggies, adding the potatoes & carrots after 3 hours of cooking, and adding the cabbage after 7 ½ hours. It’s ever-so-slightly more involved that way, but it keeps the vegetables from getting mushy during the cooking process. Trust me, it’s worth the effort.
🗝️ Key Ingredients
Corned Beef – You want the whole she-bang here: a full corned beef brisket. If you’re really ambitious, you can buy a beef brisket and cure it in a brine yourself, but it’s easier to just pick up a ready-to-cook corned beef brisket. Make sure it includes the spice packet!Cabbage – Boiled cabbage is a traditional corned beef side, and cooking it right in the Crockpot makes life (and dinner) so much easier. Cabbage doesn’t take long at all to cook, so don’t add it until the last 30 minutes!Potatoes and Carrots – Rounding out this St. Patrick’s Day feast are savory, satiating potatoes and carrots. Cooking them in the Crockpot makes them unbelievably tender, plus they absorb those rich flavors from the corned beef. If you like your veggies a little more crisp, you might prefer these oven-roasted potatoes and carrots.
👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips
If you don’t want a chewy, tough corned beef (uhhh, who does??) then it’s important that you make sure the brisket is fully covered by water (and beer, if you’re using that). A good rule of thumb is to cover it completely with water, then add more so that the waterline sits about an inch above the top of the brisket. The creamy horseradish sauce is totally optional, but I highly recommend it! It compliments the flavors in the corned beef SO well, and I love the creaminess with the tender veggies. You’ll notice there’s no salt in the ingredients list. That’s not an oversight! The spice packet is typically pretty salty, so you really don’t need to add more. Trust me.
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