Oven roasted beef brisket

Brisket is one of the toughest and most flavorful cuts of beef. It lends itself well to corning, which we all know, and goes great with cabbage. In order to make an oven cooked beef brisket, it should be cooked slowly to allow the connective tissues in the meat to break down. 

This cut should have plenty of fat to baste the roast as it is cooking so choose your piece of meat accordingly.

4 pounds of brisket
1/4 cup olive oil
1 onion sliced thin
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground black pepper
2 cups beef stock
2 cloves of garlic whole
5 red potatoes cut into 4 pieces
4 large carrots cut into 4 pieces each
2 small purple turnips cut into chunks
2 parsnips cut into chunks
1 sweet potato cut into pieces

Place the roasting pan on the stove burner at medium heat. Add the olive oil and meat and brown the brisket on both sides. Browning adds a lot of flavor to the meat and makes it a more attractive color as well. Add the next five ingredients into the pan and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Place in a 325-degree oven for 2 hours.

Raise the temperature of the oven to 400 degrees, place the vegetables in the pan and replace the aluminum foil back on tight. Cook for an additional half hour and then remove the foil. Cook for an additional 30 minutes. This is important to give some color to the vegetables. Remove the pan from the oven and let the meat rest for five to ten minutes.

Take the brisket out and slice at an angle. 

Put the meat on a large platter and arrange the vegetables around the meat. Pour any juice that is left over top and serve. You can deglaze the pan with red wine if you enjoy that in your sauce. If you want your sauce to be a gravy you have two options. First, you can flour the brisket before you brown it or you can add flour to the sauce to thicken it. Either works, it is simply a matter of personal taste.

With long slow cooking, the beef brisket should be literally falling apart. This is a meal that is perfect for a fall or winter dinner with it long-cooked flavor and all the nutrients supplied by the vegetables. It is as comforting as it is delicious. It is also economical and can feed a large family.