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How To Make Pickling Spices For Corned Beef?

Ingredients

Ingredients For The Brine

  • 5 pound beef
  • ½ cup of brown sugar
  • ½ cup of salt
  • 5 tsp of curing salt
  • 1 Guinness
  • 1 gallon of water

Pickling spices for dry roasting

  • 1 tbsp of chopped ginger
  • 2 tbsp Coriander seeds
  • 1 tbsp Mustard seeds both black and yellow mixed in the same quantity
  • 4 Cardamom pods
  • 2-3 Red dried chilies
  • 1-2 Cinnamon stick
  • 2 tbsp Black pepper
  • 3-4 Bay leaves

Instructions

  • Dry roast the pickling spices in a skillet at medium flame. As soon as you start getting the fragrance of the spices, it means that it is done. Now, crush the spices in a mortar and pestle when hot. It will take less effort and less time to crush the spices when warm.
  • take a gallon of water in a large container, add salt, brown sugar, pink curing salt, and Guinness to it and mix well. Now add the beef and half of the crushed spices and cover it with plastic wrap for five days. Make sure you make holes using a fork on the beef so that the flavor of the spices penetrates inside.
  • After five days, take out the beef from the spices and the water mixture and rinse it with water. Meanwhile, boil 2 liters of water and add half of the spices you kept aside for the dish. Make sure the water is 2-3 inches above the beef. Let the water boil for almost 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, lower down the flame and flip the beef and let it cook again for 3-4 hours.
  • After two hours, in the same water, add cabbage, carrot, and red potatoes and let it boil with the pickled spices for about one hour. 
  • After 3.5 hours, you will see the beef and the veggies have been cooked evenly, and the Corned Beef is ready. Take out the veggies on a plate. And cut the beef into small pieces and serve this corned beef with pickled spices.