Salt Beef Brisket

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

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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.

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Europe
United Kingdom
London
Brunch
Breakfast
Gluten-free

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