Corned Beef Au Gratin Recipes

CORNED BEEF AU GRATIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cut up corned beef into small cubes. Set aside.
• In sauté pan, lightly sauté onions, celery in the vegetable oil, just until soft. Let cool approximately 10-15 minutes.
• Stir together corned beef, sautéed vegetables, egg. Set aside.
• In same sauté pan, melt butter. Stir in flour and stir constantly for 1 minute. Add milk to make roux; cook until thickened. Season with ground black pepper. Remove from heat and stir into meat mixture.
• Place in greased 8x8-inch baking dish.
• Mix bread crumbs with 3 tablespoons melted butter and sprinkle over the top of corned beef mixture.
• Bake until bubbly - approximately 30 minutes.

FRENCH BEEF AU GRATIN

Steps:

• In large, heavy bottomed pan, over medium heat, melt butter.
• Add onions; saute, stirring often, until caramelized, but not burned, 15 to 20 minutes.
• With slotted spoon, remove onions to medium bowl.
• Add beef to pan; brown well on all sides.
• Return onions and any juices to pan.
• In small bowl, mix flour, sugar, cumin, salt and pepper and add to pan; stir 1 minute until bubbly. Gradually add broth, stirring to scrape drippings from pan; simmer 10 minutes.
• Cook pasta according to package directions.
• Heat broiler; place 1/2 cup fettucine in each of 4 ovenproof bowls; divide beef mixture over pasta.
• In medium bowl, stir cheeses together; sprinkle evenly over beef.
• Broil until cheese is melted and lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Makes 4 servings.

HOMEMADE CORNED BEEF

Steps:

• Brine the brisket: In a medium pot set over high heat, combine about a gallon of water, the salt, the sugar, the garlic, 3 tablespoons pickling spices and the pink curing salt. Stir mixture as it heats until sugar and salt are dissolved, about 1 minute. Transfer liquid to a container large enough for the brine and the brisket, then refrigerate until liquid is cool.
• Place brisket in the cooled liquid and weigh the meat down with a plate so it is submerged. Cover container and place in the refrigerator for 5 days, or up to 7 days, turning every day or so.
• To cook brisket, remove it from the brine and rinse under cool water. Place in a pot just large enough to hold it and cover with one of the beers and one of the ginger beers. If you need more liquid to cover the meat, add enough of the other beer, and the other ginger beer, to do so. Add remaining 2 tablespoons pickling spices. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn heat to low so liquid is barely simmering. Cover and let cook until you can easily insert a fork into the meat, about 3 hours, adding water along the way if needed to cover the brisket.
• Keep warm until serving, or let cool in the liquid and reheat when ready to eat, up to three or four days. Slice thinly and serve on sandwiches, in Irish tacos (see recipe) or with carrots and cabbage simmered until tender in the cooking liquid.

PANACKELTY - MY GRANDMA'S BAKED CORNED BEEF AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Layer onions, corned beef and potatoes in an ovenproof dish, finishing with a top layer of potatoes, seasoning with salt and pepper between each layer. (My grandma used an old oval enamel dish). Pour over the oxo stock and cover with a lid or foil.
• Cook in the pre-heated oven, (Gas mark 5/190C/380F) for an hour, removing the lid/foil for the last quarter of an hour, continue baking until the potatoes are browned and cooked.
• Serve hot with fresh green vegetables.