One Pot Corned Beef & Cabbage
Turn up the Celtic music and dig into this traditional American-Irish one pot corned beef and cabbage simmered to tender perfection.
One Pot Corned Beef & Cabbage
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In honor of St Patrick’s Day, I am sharing the first of two St Paddy’s Day recipes I have planned for this week. Last year, I shared a quick and delicious recipe for Bangers and Mash with Guiness Gravy and thought I’d continue the tradition of an-enjoyed-once-a-year recipe.
Fact: making your own corned beef is tedious and I recommend only doing it once in your life, twice if you’re masochistic. After looking up a couple of different recipes, I don’t know what I was thinking, or why I was willing to give up the space in my refrigerator for an entire week to pickle my own brisket. But for the sake of honoring my (American) Irish heritage, it seemed to be a right of passage. Since St. Patrick’s Day is actually less than a week a way and there isn’t enough time to actually make your own corned beef, my recipe calls for a corned beef brisket from the supermarket, though the packet of spices included won’t be needed so save it for something else.
It should come as no surprise that corned beef and cabbage is actually more of an American tradition than an Irish one. In Ireland, the traditional St. Patrick’s Day meal actually consists of lamb or bacon, not corned beef.
While it might feel more natural to pair this one pot corned beef and cabbage with Guiness, rhone-style wines actually compliment the flavors within the dish really well. High on the Hog from local favorite McPrice Myers is my go-to rhone blend for corned beef and cabbage and Thanksgiving dinner. For under $25, you’re not going to find a better blend of Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre and Graciano that will only get better if properly cellared for the next five years.