1 How long does it take to cook a brisket

Generally speaking, a brisket that has been cooked for 2 hours is basically OK.

Because there are a lot of tendons in the brisket, it is basically impossible to do it as fast as you do the pork, so you have to stew for 2 hours to get soft, if you want to be more flavorful and soft, you can also increase the stewing time according to your own taste and preferences.

2 cook brisket with hot water or cold water

brisket in the stew, to cold water in the pot blanching. Most people, will blanch the meat of the water poured out, re-exchange the water, do brisket is not recommended to do so, because the first pot of soup to do meat, so that the meat made especially fragrant.

And add enough water at once. When stewing brisket, water is best to add enough at once, really not enough when you can add some boiling water or hot water, do not add cold water, cold water will make the brisket texture hard.

3 brisket how to stew delicious and rotten

1, advance processing. The day before the stewed brisket can be coated with a layer of dry mustard on the brisket, so that the meat will be more tender, and easy to stew, in the stewing time to wash off the mustard can be.

2, pay attention to the fire. In the stewed brisket, do not always use a fierce fire, boil the water can be opened after a small fire slowly simmering, so that it is easy to cook the brisket rotten, cooked out of the brisket flavor is also strong.

3, add the right amount of wine and vinegar and other seasonings in the stew. Experts believe that two pounds of beef can put about 2 tablespoons of wine or 1 tablespoon of vinegar, add some wine or vinegar in the stewing of beef brisket will make the meat tender.

4. Stew with tea. Put the tea in a small cloth bag and put it in and brisket stew, you can also add a few pieces of dried hawthorn or a few pieces of white radish, so that the stewed brisket is easy to rot, but also can remove the odor.

5, use the pressure cooker. Stewing with a pressure cooker is easier to cook the ingredients, you can add some spices and other seasonings in it.

4 How to choose brisket

Fresh brisket surface can be seen glossy, and the color is more red, meat and a little fat between the meat, the color is white or yellowish, in the brisket of the appearance of the hand feel a little bit dry, or directly see there is an air-dried membrane, touch with the hand is not sticky and elastic, there is a unique taste of fresh beef.

If the appearance of brisket is sticky or extremely dry, and the depression can not be recovered after hand pressure, it indicates that the brisket is not fresh.