Glazed Corned Beef Slow Roast


St. Patricks day circa 2009 I was invited to my friends family celebration of the Irish holiday to enjoy some good company and good food. My friends mother was producing food left and right in the kitchen the entire morning until the early afternoon until it was time to eat. The dish of the hour come dinnertime: Glazed Corned Beef.

I remember the meal like it was yesterday, sweet and savory with a crispy finish that you couldn't get enough of. That was ten years ago and I finally got the bright idea to reach out to my friends mother to get that recipe so I can attempt to recreate the joy of eating that meal a decade later.

SHOPPING LIST:
(This shopping list is for one roast, you can do multiple depending on how many you are serving)

  • 3.5lb-4lb Flat Cut Corned Beef Brisket w/ spice packet (Mine came pre-seasoned)
  • Medium-Large banking tin (you want there to be at lease 2-3 inches of space between the meat and the side of the tin)
  • 1-1.5 tbsp Spicy Mustard (for glaze)
  • 1/2 Cup packed Brown Sugar (for glaze)
  • Serving fork (if you dont already have one)
PREP/COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Preheat oven to 425.
  2. Remove meat from package and rinse thoroughly with cold water.
  3. Place meat in baking tin fat side up and pierce holes evenly over the meat, especially through the fat. (I did probably about 10-15 stabs before moving on).
  4. Open spice packet and spread evenly over meat and then rub so spices stay in place.
  5. Once preheated, place tin in oven at 425 for 30 minutes.
  6. While meat is cooking, in a small mixing bowl combine the 1/2 cup of brown sugar and 1 tbsp of spicy mustard together mixing with fork until thick and spreadable (think as thick as chunky peanut butter but not as smooth as creamy peanut butter).
  7. When the initial roast is complete remove tin from oven, turn heat down to 325 degrees and spread the brown sugar mustard glaze covering the entire roast. 
  8. When oven is down to 325 place the roast back in the oven for 60 minutes. Once the 60 minutes is up take the tin out momentarily to add more glaze to the roast and 1/2 of water around the meat so that the glaze melting to the pan doesn't burn while cooking. If it does even with the 1/2 cup of water you can add more water.
  9. At 325 still, place the tin back in the oven for 90minutes. After 90minutes, check on roast to make sure that nothing is burning and to check the crispness of the outside of the meat. If you want to add more glaze you certainly can if that is your personal preference (I did because I had extra but its not required).
  10. Place back in oven for final 60 minutes. Once the 60 minute timer is up, to check if meat is done pierce serving fork through the meat as far as you can go. If the fork slides out no problem, it is finished, if any meat catches the fork on the way out it will need another 30-45 minutes.
  11. Once complete let sit outside of the oven covered for 10-20 minutes before slicing very thinly and serving. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Huge shoutout to Mrs. Lorfing for the willingness to share this recipe with me. I can now relive the Lorfing St. Pattys day festivities all the way from Florida!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

10 JOBS FOR EXERCISE SCIENCE MAJORS

Image
If you are reading this I am guessing that you are either working towards, earned or know someone who is working on or earned a college degree in Exercise Science. As someone who has both a bachelors and masters degree in exercise science, and working in a related profession for the past eight years, I have great news for you. There are more job opportunities out there than you think! I decided to pursue exercise science because I enjoyed learning about the human body and how to optimize health and wellness. My motivation was to take what I learned over the course of my education and apply it directly to me as an experiment to assess how I responded to different exercise protocols and health interventions in order to become an expert in the field. If you ask my parents what I do they might tell you, "Oh he's a personal trainer" or "I think he's a sports coach" or "He's a lifestyle coach" or some other uncertain explanation of what they thin...
Read more

Improve Your Strength: [PART 3] Putting Together a Conjugate Program

If you have not read PART 1 and PART 2 of this article you should go read through them first to get the full picture of what Maximum Effort and Dynamic Effort strength training is. In part one and two of this article I explained the two primary components of the Conjugate Method Training protocol: Maximum Effort Sessions and Dynamic Effort Sessions, how they are designed and how they work together. In this article I will lay out how I would lay out a conjugate training program for myself or any client who wants to improve their strength. When I have used the conjugate method in the past I have toyed around with different approaches and the below outline is what I found to be the most consistent in improving performance. Monday - Maximum Effort Lower Body Tuesday - Dynamic Effort Upper Body Wednesday - Off Day  Thursday - Dynamic Effort Lower Body Friday - Maximum Effort Upper Body  Saturday - Active Rest (Work on weak accessory exercises) Sunday - Off Day Some...
Read more

Improve Your Strength: [PART 2] Dynamic Effort Conjugate Training

If you are reading this you will likely want to read Improve Your Strength: [PART 1] Maximum Effort Conjugate Training first to get the full picture of the Conjugate Training Method. In part 1 of this article I provided an example of a Maximum Effort Lower Body session that looks like the following: Box Jump (Max Height) - 5x3 = [POWER] Barbell Back Squat - 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1, 1,... up to 1 rep max = [STRENGTH] Heavy Dumbbell Split Squat - 4x8 = [HYPERTROPHY] Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift - 3x15 = [ENDURANCE] Plank Hold - 3x1-2min hold [ENDURANCE] As you can see, power, strength, hypertrophy and endurance are all accounted for in this single workout. This kind of workout is extremely fatiguing on the body and would be unrealistic to perform multiple days in a row so the conjugate system includes another style of workout design called Dynamic Effort. Dynamic Effort Training is a similar format to maximum effort however, the prescribed repetitions and sets change to prevent exc...
Read more