Description
Hearty slow cooker texas beef brisket brings robust southwestern flavors to dinner tables with minimal effort. Rich spices and tender meat create a memorable meal you will savor from first bite to last.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 lbs (1.8 kg) beef brisket
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tsps chili powder (ancho chile powder recommended)
- 2 tsps (10 mL) liquid smoke
- 1 tsp onion salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- ½ cup (120 mL) beef broth
- 3 tbsps (45 mL) Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- Marinade Creation: Combine Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, bay leaves, garlic, onion salt, pepper, and liquid smoke in a large resealable bag, whisking to create a robust flavor base.
- Marination Process: Submerge brisket completely in the marinade, seal, and refrigerate overnight to allow deep flavor infusion and tenderization.
- Slow Cooking Preparation: Transfer marinated brisket to a 5-quart slow cooker, maintaining the marinade coating, and pour beef broth around the meat to ensure moisture and tenderness.
- Initial Cooking Phase: Cover and cook on low temperature for 8 hours, allowing the meat to become incredibly soft and develop rich, deep flavors.
- Sauce Development: Remove brisket, discard bay leaves, and extract 1 cup of concentrated beef juices. Blend these juices with barbecue sauce to create a complex, tangy coating.
- Final Flavor Refinement: Return brisket to slow cooker, generously coat with sauce mixture, and cook on high for 30 minutes to caramelize and intensify the flavor profile.
- Serving Preparation: Slice against the grain for maximum tenderness or shred for a pulled meat texture, serving with additional sauce and your favorite accompaniments to complete this Texas-style culinary experience.
Notes
- Marinate Overnight: Allow the brisket to soak in the marinade for full flavor absorption, transforming ordinary meat into a taste sensation.
- Low and Slow Cooking: Use the slow cooker on low heat for 8 hours to break down tough muscle fibers, creating melt-in-your-mouth tenderness.
- Slice Against the Grain: Cut perpendicular to the meat’s muscle lines to ensure each bite remains incredibly soft and easy to chew.
- Sauce Caramelization: The final 30-minute high-heat cooking step creates a rich, sticky glaze that locks in deep, complex barbecue flavors.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Lunch
- Method: Slow Cooking
- Cuisine: Tex-Mex
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 680 mg
- Fat: 22 g
- Saturated Fat: 9 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10 g
- Trans Fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 4 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 34 g
- Cholesterol: 90 mg