Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage

This Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage  is so easy and flavorful. After 9 hours in the crock pot, the corned beef brisket slices really easily and is so tender and juicy. Corned Beef cooks so wonderfully in the slow cooker that  I tend not to cook it any other way. It is a tough cut of meat, but the slow cooking process turns it into butter.

Recipe Tips

• Place the corned beef brisket in the crock pot fat side up.
• You want a layer of fat on top, but if there is a lot, trim a little off so your vegetables won’t get greasy.

• Your brisket should come with a packet of seasoning. If it doesn’t, add a tablespoon of pickling seasoning, some peppercorns, and a bay leaf.
• If you add the potatoes and carrots at the begining, they will get very soft, some will say mushy. I like them this way because they soak up so much flavor. If you don’t want them really soft, add them halfway through the cooking time.
• For beer, the obvious choice is Guinness, but it tends to add a really strong flavor to the vegetables. I prefer a lighter beer. You can use any type of beer that you like as long as it is not too hoppy.
• You can leave the beer out if you don’t like to cook with alcohol and it will still be delicious.
• Be sure to cut the corned beef against the grain.
• If your meat is still tough at the end of the cooking time, you need to cook it longer.

Leftovers

If you have leftovers, try this Corned Beef Grilled Cheese. Leftovers will keep in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days.

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• Irish Cream Poke Cake
• Bailey’s Irish Cream Brownies
• Cabbage and Noodles
• Irish Soda Bread
• Irish Guinness Beef Stew