Barbecue Beef Brisket Recipe

Brisket can be tough and dry, but with this Barbecue Beef Brisket Recipe it's simmered for hours in a slow cooker with onions, horseradish and mustard, and becomes tender, moist and luscious.

A 3 pound brisket will feed 6 for dinner.

Barbecue Brisket also makes wonderful barbecue beef sandwiches and shredded beef for burritos and tacos.

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 6 hours
Ready In: 6 hours 20 minutes

Tender Barbecue Beef Brisket Recipe

3 pound beef brisket, trimmed of excess fat
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
Kosher salt and ground black pepper

Cut the brisket in half and season each piece with the kosher salt and black pepper on each side.

Place the pieces of seasoned meat in the bottom of a slow cooker and cover with the chopped onion.

Whisk together the horseradish, mustard, ketchup vinegar and brown sugar. Pour this mixture over the brisket and onions. Cover the pot and cook on low heat for 6 hours, or until the beef is fork tender.

When finished, remove the meat from the slow cooker and set is aside, covered, to rest.

Skim any fat from the surface of the sauce and pour it into a small saucepan. Bring it to a boil then simmer it for about 15 minutes while the meat is resting.

Slice the brisket against the grain and arrange it on a warmed platter. Pour some of the sauce over the meat and serve the rest on the side.

Good To Know - If your slow cooker or crockpot is large enough to hold the brisket in one piece, you do not need to cut it in half. It will cook evenly at the same rate.

Food For Thought - The horseradish and mustard make this recipe sound very spicy, but the long simmering with the other ingredients rounds out the sharpness but leaves all the flavor. You can enhance the pungent essence of the cooking liquids by substituting 1 cup of chili sauce for the ketchup.

Yield 6 Servings