When you are looking for cold meat in a sandwich it is hard to go past corned beef … especially when you have made it yourself!
This recipe serves 4, with plenty of meat leftover for the next couple of days in lunch boxes, or you can slice the meat and freeze it to have another time … remember the Reuben sandwich? They are the best! Fabulous easy Friday night dinner of thickly sliced corn beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and pickle on toasted rye bread. Now that is a great sandwich! See here
Before cooking your meat take it out of the fridge 30 minutes before commencing this recipe. Veggies should also be at room temperature when added to the dish in the last 30 minutes of cooking time.
When testing this recipe I used a variety of beef pieces ranging in size from 1kg to 1.5kg. Cooking time was the same for all. It is important you get a piece of meat that is longer rather than rounder so that it fits into the Veroma dish easily with the lid sitting snugly. With the TM5 this may not be such an issue as the dish is slightly bigger, but for the TM31 this is particularly important.
There will be a lot of stock leftover – it is far too yummy to throw away, so I always use it to make a soup the next day, or as the stock to make a sauce for pasta. Freeze it for later use if you don’t need to use it within a few days.
Before cooking your meat take it out of the fridge 30 minutes before commencing this recipe. Veggies should also be at room temperature when added to the dish in the last 30 minutes of cooking time.
When testing this recipe I used a variety of beef pieces ranging in size from 1kg to 1.5kg. Cooking time was the same for all. It is important you get a piece of meat that is longer rather than rounder so that it fits into the Veroma dish easily with the lid sitting snugly. With the TM5 this may not be such an issue as the dish is slightly bigger, but for the TM31 this is particularly important.
There will be a lot of stock leftover - it is far too yummy to throw away, so I always use it to make a soup the next day, or as the stock to make a sauce for pasta. Freeze it for later use if you don’t need to use it within a few days.
- 1kg to 1.5kg corned beef
- 1 carrot, peeled and cut into chunks
- 1 onion, peeled and cut into quarters
- 2 cloves garlic unpeeled and left whole
- 2 bay leaves, fresh if possible
- 1 level tsp black peppercorns
- 50g light muscovado sugar, or brown sugar
- 100g apple cider vinegar
- 1500g water
- Use whatever you have on hand, but I used small potatoes cut into halves, carrots and frozen peas (which I took out of freezer at the commencement of the dish so that they are thawed when added to the Veroma later).
- 350g drained liquid from corned beef
- 50g butter
- 30g spelt flour, or plain flour
- 50g sour cream
- 20g Dijon mustard
- Sea salt flakes and freshly cracked pepper if needed
- Place carrot, onion, garlic, bay leaves, peppercorns and light muscovado sugar into TM bowl and chop 5 seconds / speed 6
- Add vinegar and water to TM bowl and lock lid in position
- Place the corned beef into Veroma dish and set on top of the TM bowl and cook 60 minutes / Veroma / speed 2
- While beef is steaming prep your veggies
- At the end of the 60 minutes cooking time, put potato and carrot into Veroma dish around the beef and cook 25 minutes / Veroma / speed 2
- Add peas and continue for 5 minutes / Veroma / speed 2
- Remove Veroma and put aside while you prepare the sauce
- Drain liquid from TM bowl through a sieve into another container
- Lightly clean TM bowl to remove any veggie bits as you want to achieve a nice, clean, mustard sauce without lumps in it
- Return 350g of strained liquid to TM bowl, along with the butter and flour and cook 8 minutes / 100 / speed 3 (keep rest of liquid for another dish)
- Add sour cream and Dijon mustard and mix 10 seconds / speed 4
- Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper if needed and mix 5 seconds / speed 4
- Cut meat thinly and serve with veggies and sauce
Sandra Preece says
Did the corn beef yesterday to have cold last night. So tender and moist. Will be doing it again. Thanks Gina
Gina says
That is fantastic Sandra … thank you so much for letting me know … it takes a little while to cook, but it leaves you hands free to get on with other things so it is in fact an easy dish to put together … I am thrilled that you like it xo
Tracy Williams says
Gina, Made this last night for dinner and it was a winner! Loved it! Gosh it was so easy!!! Already thinking about what I might add to it next time. Thanks heaps, Tracy
Gina says
OMG Tracy … you are on a roll and doing heaps of cooking … that has made me so happy … thanks for letting me know as feedback is always so appreciated xo