Cooking Experiment: Teriyaki Beef Brisket
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tuftearsI promised a picture of the beef brisket when I got done. Well, here it is!
Next time I make this, I'll have to use proportionally more meat per serving than I planned this time! It's a bit odd; I used 1.2 pounds of beef brisket, which normally would make four servings, but I think it actually seems to make more like two servings. That'd be what... 9 ounces of beef per serving? Yikes.
This turned out to be a surprising amount of work when I got to the 'take it out of the crockpot and make the teriyaki sauce'. Mostly I hate having to use extra dishes and do more work when I've been trained to expect that crockpot meals will be ready right out of the pot. What I did here was to take the meat out and put it on a cutting board to rest, prior to being sliced (and it was NOT easy to slice, was VERY tender), scoop out the veggies, then emptied the remaining marinade/meat juices into a pot to cook with some cornstarch slurry to thicken it up.
Well, I've got a total of three meals out of this, plus a half-bottle of beef teriyaki sauce to be used for another occasion, and a serving of teriyaki carrots and pineapple, likewise. And plenty of leftover rice. Not too bad for a cooking experiment!
Next time I make this, I'll have to use proportionally more meat per serving than I planned this time! It's a bit odd; I used 1.2 pounds of beef brisket, which normally would make four servings, but I think it actually seems to make more like two servings. That'd be what... 9 ounces of beef per serving? Yikes.
This turned out to be a surprising amount of work when I got to the 'take it out of the crockpot and make the teriyaki sauce'. Mostly I hate having to use extra dishes and do more work when I've been trained to expect that crockpot meals will be ready right out of the pot. What I did here was to take the meat out and put it on a cutting board to rest, prior to being sliced (and it was NOT easy to slice, was VERY tender), scoop out the veggies, then emptied the remaining marinade/meat juices into a pot to cook with some cornstarch slurry to thicken it up.
Well, I've got a total of three meals out of this, plus a half-bottle of beef teriyaki sauce to be used for another occasion, and a serving of teriyaki carrots and pineapple, likewise. And plenty of leftover rice. Not too bad for a cooking experiment!
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Date: 2014-02-18 12:31 am (UTC)But if you don't have a crockpot, it's probably not worth buying one just to make soup!
Oh, and pulled/shredded pork, beef, or any other meat. MOST meats will be easily crumble-able if you cook them for 10 hours in a crockpot.