Recipes
Bourbon pulled beef brisket
This tasty, sticky sauce adds a flavour of Kentucky to your Easter celebrations – delicious with veg fritters and spicy ’slaw
This tasty, sticky sauce adds a flavour of Kentucky to your Easter celebrations – delicious with veg fritters and spicy ’slaw
(49 votes)
Cook: 4 Hours 40 Mins
Serves: 8
Price: £2.43 per serving
Nutritional Information
Each 283g serving contains
Energy
1692kj
405kcal
1692kj
405kcal
20%
Fat
14.2g
14.2g
Med
20%
20%
Saturates
5.7g
5.7g
Med
29%
29%
Sugars
9.3g
9.3g
Low
10%
10%
Salt
0.71g
0.71g
Low
12%
12%
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
598kj/143kcal
Typical energy values per 100g:
598kj/143kcal
Ingredients
1.8kg beef brisket (1 large piece or 2 smaller pieces)
130ml Bourbon
2tbsp Cajun seasoning
1 large onion
6 cloves garlic
2 bay leaves
2tbsp black treacle
2tbsp tomato purée
2tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2tbsp honey
Method
1
Preheat the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3
2
Put the beef brisket in a baking dish, pour over 100ml bourbon and rub with Cajun seasoning. Chop the onion and bash the garlic cloves. Add these to the dish with the bay leaves.
3
Cover the baking dish tightly with foil and cook in the oven for 4 hrs until the meat is tender and can be pulled apart with a fork.
4
When the beef is cooked, remove from the oven and carefully drain the cooking juices into a pan, discarding the onion, garlic and bay leaves. Skim off any fat.
5
Increase the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
6
Stir 30ml Bourbon, black treacle, tomato purée, Worcestershire sauce and honey into the cooking juices. Bring to the boil and simmer until thick.
7
Spoon over the brisket, and return to the oven, uncovered. Cook for 15-20 mins until the sauce is bubbling. Serve immediately with two forks for pulling the meat apart.