Recipe for the day ~ Apple and Brown Sugar Corned Beef

Apple and Brown Sugar Corned Beef

(Courtesy of All Recipes)

Ingredients:

4 cups apple juice

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1 Tbspn prepared mustard

2 (3 lb) corned beef briskets with spice packets

20 small red potatoes, scrubbed

2 carrots, cut into chunks

2 onions, cut into 8 wedges

1 head cabbage, cored and cut into large chunks

Directions:

Pour apple juice into a large slow cooker

Mix in the brown sugar and mustard, stirring until the brown sugar has dissolved

Mix in the contents of the spice packets and lay briskets into the apple juice mixture

Top with red potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage chunks

Push all ingredients into the liquid

Cover and cook on High (4 to 5 hours) until corned beef is tender or on Low (8 to 10 hours)

Slice meat thinly across grain and serve with vegetables

FOOTNOTE:

For stovetop cooking, place meat, apple juice, brown sugar and mustard in a large covered stockpot. 

Bring to a boil

Reduce heat and simmer, covered for 40 minutes per pound of meat

Add vegetable for the last half hour of cooking

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