Salt Beef Brisket

Name: Salt Beef Brisket
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 bay leaves; 1 onion, peeled and quartered; 300 g coarse sea salt; 1 tsp cumin seeds; ½ bulb of garlic, cut in half across; 1 small red onion, roughly chopped; ½ tsp crushed chilli flakes; 1 tsp coriander seeds; 1 tsp ground fennel; 1 tsp ground cumin; 5 cm cinnamon stick; 1 sprig fresh oregano or 1 tbsp dried; 1 sprig thyme; 4 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped; Prague Powder #1 or salt beef cure as per product instructions; 1 tsp dried oregano; 1 tsp paprika; 1 tbsp chopped ginger; 1 tsp crushed chilli flakes; 2 dried rose petal buds; 2 green chillies, cut in half lengthways and seeds removed; 1.5 kg beef brisket; 2 tsp peppercorns; 2 tbsp demerara sugar; 1 cardamom pod

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Brunch with Brother Marcus

By Tasos Gaitanos and Alex Large

Published 2023

About

It’s easy to buy ready-made salt beef but so much more rewarding to make it yourself as then you’re in total control of the flavours and salinity. This keeps for ages in the freezer which means you have a steady supply of salt beef bagels for weeks to come. We use Prague Powder #1 in our curing brine but there are other curing mixtures available. Just be sure to follow the instructions as they come in different concentrations.