Texans' Beef Brisket


Texans
Makes: 12 servings Serving size: 3  ounces meat + 3 tablespoons sauce
Prep 30 mins Smoke 5 hrs
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Texans' Beef Brisket
Ingredients
  • 1 recipe Vinegar Mop Sauce
  • 1 3 - 3 1/2pound  fresh beef brisket
  • 2 teaspoons  seasoned salt
  • 1 teaspoon  paprika
  • 1 teaspoon  chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon  garlic pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon  ground cumin
  • 6 - 8 mesquite, hickory, or pecan wood chunks*
  • 1 recipe Spicy Beer Sauce
  • 12 kaiser rolls, split and toasted (optional)
Directions

1. Prepare Vinegar Mop Sauce; set aside. Trim fat from meat. For rub, in a small bowl stir together seasoned salt, paprika, chili powder, garlic pepper, and cumin. Sprinkle the rub evenly over meat; rub in with your fingers.

2. In a smoker arrange preheated coals, wood chunks, and water pan according to the manufacturer's directions. Pour water into pan. Place meat on the grill rack over water pan. Cover and smoke for 5 to 6 hours or until a fork can easily be inserted into meat, brushing occasionally with Vinegar Mop Sauce during the last hour of smoking. Add additional coals and water as needed to maintain temperature and moisture. Do not add wood after the first 2 hours of smoking. (Too much smoke can give a bitter taste to smoked meat.)

3. Remove brisket from smoker. Thinly slice meat across the grain. Serve with Spicy Beer Sauce. If desired, serve meat and sauce in kaiser rolls.

From the Test Kitchen*Tip:
  • For the most smoke production, soak wood chunks in enough water to cover for at least 1 hour before grilling. Drain wood chunks before using.
Spicy Beer Sauce

Yield: about 2-1/4 cups
Total Time 10 mins
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup  chopped, seeded, peeled tomato (1 large)
  • 1/2 cup  chopped onion (1 medium)
  • 1/2 cup  chopped green sweet pepper
  • 2 tablespoons  butter
  • 1 cup  bottled chili sauce
  • 1/2 cup  beer
  • 1/2 cup  cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons  packed brown sugar
  • 1 - 2 tablespoons  chopped canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons  ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon  salt
Directions

1. In a medium saucepan cook tomato, onion, and green pepper in hot butter over medium heat about 5 minutes or until onion is tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in chili sauce, beer, vinegar, brown sugar, chipotle peppers, black pepper, and salt. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, about 10 minutes or until reduced to about 2-1/4 cups.

Nutrition Facts (Texans' Beef Brisket)
  • Servings Per Recipe 12,
  • cal. (kcal) 253,
  • Fat, total (g) 12,
  • chol. (mg) 77,
  • sat. fat (g) 4,
  • carb. (g) 11,
  • Monosaturated fat (g) 6,
  • Polyunsaturated fat (g) 1,
  • fiber (g) 2,
  • sugar (g) 6,
  • pro. (g) 24,
  • vit. A (IU) 486,
  • vit. C (mg) 9,
  • Thiamin (mg) 0,
  • Riboflavin (mg) 0,
  • Niacin (mg) 4,
  • Pyridoxine (Vit. B6) (mg) 0,
  • Folate (µg) 20,
  • Cobalamin (Vit. B12) (µg) 2,
  • sodium (mg) 770,
  • Potassium (mg) 444,
  • calcium (mg) 20,
  • iron (mg) 3,
  • Other Carb () 1,
  • Lean Meat () 4,
  • Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
Vinegar Mop Sauce
Total Time 10 mins
Ingredients
  • 1/4 cup  beer
  • 4 teaspoons  Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tablespoon  vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon  vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon  jalapeno mustard or other hot-style mustard
  • Bottled hot pepper sauce
Directions

1. In a small bowl stir together beer, Worcestershire sauce, oil, vinegar, mustard, and a few dashes bottled hot pepper sauce.

Nutrition Facts (Texans' Beef Brisket)
  • Servings Per Recipe 12,
  • cal. (kcal) 253,
  • Fat, total (g) 12,
  • chol. (mg) 77,
  • sat. fat (g) 4,
  • carb. (g) 11,
  • Monosaturated fat (g) 6,
  • Polyunsaturated fat (g) 1,
  • fiber (g) 2,
  • sugar (g) 6,
  • pro. (g) 24,
  • vit. A (IU) 486,
  • vit. C (mg) 9,
  • Thiamin (mg) 0,
  • Riboflavin (mg) 0,
  • Niacin (mg) 4,
  • Pyridoxine (Vit. B6) (mg) 0,
  • Folate (µg) 20,
  • Cobalamin (Vit. B12) (µg) 2,
  • sodium (mg) 770,
  • Potassium (mg) 444,
  • calcium (mg) 20,
  • iron (mg) 3,
  • Other Carb () 1,
  • Lean Meat () 4,
  • Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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