Slow Cooker Coffee and Brown Sugar Brisket
This delectable recipe for slow cooker coffee and brown sugar brisket brings together so many rich flavors to this hearty supper.
I think I may have said this once or twice or one million times before on this blog, but I wish I liked coffee. I really do.
It is SO much easier to get a cup of coffee than to find a decent cup of hot, strong English breakfast tea unless you happen to be in the middle of London, and I am usually in the middle of North Carolina, so this is a problem for me.
I’ve tried to like coffee, just for the pure convenience factor, but I just….can’t…do it.
However, I DO (for some mysterious reason) like coffee when it is an ingredient.
Usually that means in ice cream, or in muffins, or other sweet stuff. But in this case, I like it in a brisket recipe.
Whatever the hours and hours of cooking in the slow cooker do to transform the coffee, the sauce comes out not tasting like coffee, but like some rich, tangy, wonderful thing that you can’t quite put your finger on. (Spoiler alert: it’s the coffee.)
Here’s how you make slow cooker coffee and brown sugar brisket!
Toss a brisket and some chopped carrots and baby potatoes and quartered onions into your slow cooker.
Mix up a sauce of tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar and (you guessed it) coffee and pour it in there, stirring things up so the sauce is generally all over everything, and about half the veggies are on top and the other half are on the bottom.
Cover the slow cooker, press the “LOW” setting button, and go do something else for about 8 hours.
Now come back, slice the brisket into thin slices, put it on the plate with some veggies and pour that rocking great sauce all over the whole aromatic, tender, fabulous thing.
Have tea with dessert. Feel all smug for liking coffee and tea at the same time.
Brisket Slow-Cooked in Coffee and Brown Sugar
This delectable recipe for slow cooker coffee and brown sugar brisket brings together so many rich flavors to this hearty supper.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 hours
- Total Time: 8 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- Sea salt and black pepper
- 2 1/2 pounds beef brisket
- 1 sweet onion, peeled and quartered
- 1 pound baby potatoes
- 1 pound medium carrots, cut into 2 inch pieces
- 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
- 1/2 cup brewed black coffee
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
- Season the beef with 1 teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper and place in the bottom of a slow cooker. Add the onion, potatoes, and carrots.
- Stir the tomato paste, coffee, Worcestershire sauce, and brown sugar together and pour it over the beef and vegetables. Stir things around just a little. Cover and cook on low until the beef and vegetables are tender, 8 to 10 hours.
- Slice the beef and serve with the vegetables and sauce, sprinkled with the parsley.
We love brisket and I have a tried and true recipe, but, I gotta tell you…this looks awesome…can't wait to try it. I shared your recipe on my Must Try Tuesday blog post today.
http://therickettchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/04/must-try-tuesday-april-5-2011.html
Thanks for sharing!
Wende
Your recipe is a real delight !!! yummmmm
I have to say I am the opposite; love coffee and recoil at the thought of it in a recipe.
But maybe, just maybe, I will try it!
DH has a really awful schedule traveling back & forth across 3 time zones this week. I think I am going to have this ready & waiting for him in the crock-pot when he gets home on Thursday night.
Thanks for the inspiration, as always.
Curious if you've ever had duros snacks. Bright orange wagon wheel pasta that you cook in the microwave for 30sec. to a minute and they puff up to a most wonderful airy flavorful "cracker/chip like" treat, great for dipping anything or just eat plain. Google it. I find them at Walmart super store and everytime I'm scooping them into a bag (produce dept.) someone asks me about them.
My neighbor used to make a delicious pot roast with coffee so I can only imagine how good a brisket would be. Since I don't eat meat, I'm always on the look out for something easy like this when I cook for those who do. This sounds great.
OK… dinner for tomorrow night has been discovered. Thanks Framed Cook. Looks and sounds delicious. Will let you know!
Thank God I found you! You may be the ONLY other person in the world I have met who doesn't drink coffee. (or admits it!) I CAN'T DO IT EITHER! I have tried… Love the aroma! But I'm all about a cup of tea!
This hardly looks as casual as you describe "Toss a brisket and some chopped" only because the end result looks perfect!
This looks fantastic! Love the idea of coffee in this dish.
Boy! That sure looks good!…The things you come up with! *smh* ^_^
sounds wonderful…I'm inspired!…. might add a little heat,… but it sounds right on…..
Well, you and I differ on the coffee front (I really should just have an IV drip of the stuff set up, based on how much I drink it). But really what that tells me is that this dish must be UBER delicious if you're extolling it's virtues! Coffee is definitely more versatile than people think. Looks fantastic!
never thought to add coffee to brisket. Sounds delicious. I always add coffee to my brownies. it really brings out the flavor of the chocolate.
loving this! yes indeed. love a good kicked up sauce.