Brisket Recipe
My grandmother was a master at making brisket in various ways. She even used brisket to brine her own corned beef. I’ve eaten corned beef sandwiches in New York, Toronto and Montreal and nothing even comes close to my grandmother’s corned beef. Unfortunately I don’t have her recipe, so maybe that’s a challenge for another day.
Today we’re making smoky and spicy brisket in the pressure cooker. If you don’t have a pressure cooker or Instant Pot, you really need to treat yourself to one. For this recipe it will cut your cooking time by one-third! Less time in the kitchen, means more time for crafting and DIY’ing!
Instead of getting Brisket fresh from the butcher counter, we bought this package. If you do that too, you’ll need to adjust the spicing (ie no salt and pepper) because these packages already have seasoning.
Do all your prep before you brown the meat.
We use this handy dandy mini cube tray to freeze canned chipotle chile in adobo sauce. It’s meant to hold minced garlic, so you always have it on hand, but works on anything you don’t want to go to waste.
We use larger cube trays to freeze tomato paste. Aside from our pressure cooker, it’s probably our most used kitchen gadget.
We used two cubes for this recipe, but if you don’t like a lot of spice, cut it back to one – or don’t use it at all.
There’s no sense in opening a can, using a tiny bit and letting the rest to to waste!
The secret ingredient my grandmother never used is liquid smoke. Along with the chile in adobo, it adds a smokiness we love.
In order to brown the brisket, get it as dry as you can with paper towel. If you don’t remove the moisture, it will just steam. And then you won’t get those delicious brown bits of fond in the bottom of the pot.
Browning develops flavour.
The brown bits left behind might not look great now, but will work their way into the final sauce and flavour it.
After removing the brisket, when you add in the rest of the liquid ingredients, be sure to scrape up and loosen all the fond.
Nestle the brisket back in.
Then set it and forget it for an hour.
Even though you’ll let it sit 15 minutes before opening, still take precaution and aim the lid away from you to avoid hot steam.
Remember this cookie cutter from our gluten free gingerbread cookie recipe? Saving time on cooking gives you time to play with your food! Pile it up with rice and peas.
Then slather on some of that delicious sauce and enjoy!
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Brisket Recipe
Recipe details
- 8 servings
- Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 1 Hours Total time: 1 hr 10 min
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