Slow roast Ruckmans beef brisket with potatoes and onions

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Slow roast Ruckmans beef brisket

Slow roast Ruckmans beef brisket

This brisket of beef makes a simple yet incredibly tasty Sunday lunch using an economical beef joint. By slow cooking beef brisket, you allow the meat to become more tender and hold more its flavour.

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 5 ½ hours

Serves: 6

Beef brisket ingredients
2.5kg boned and rolled RSPCA Assured brisket of beef
4 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
a handful of thyme sprigs
Fairtrade olive oil
1.2kg potatoes, peeled and cut into
3-4cm chunks
500g small onions or shallots, peeled
Sea salt and freshly ground Fairtrade pepper

Slow roast beef brisket method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan 180°C/gas 6.

Place the beef brisket into a large roasting tin and tuck the garlic and thyme under it.

Massage the oil into the brisket and season well.

Roast the brisket for 30 minutes.

Lower the temperature to 140°C/120°C/gas 1, cover the beef with foil and return to the oven for 4 hours.

Increase the oven temperature to 160°C/fan 140°C/gas 3.

Baste your brisket again, add potatoes and onion.

Cook for a further hour until the brisket joint has crisped up and the potatoes and onion are cooked through.

Serve your delicious roast beef brisket with Yorkshire pudding and gravy.

Recipe: Freedom Food producer Harry Hewlett, Ruckmans Farm.

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