Brisket Crockpot Recipe

This Beef Brisket Crockpot Recipe makes the best beef brisket this side of Texas!

True Texas-style beef brisket is slowly cooked over a low flame for hours until it is fork tender.

This recipe gives you the same authentic West Texas flavor of a ranch barbecue, using your crockpot.

Flavorful beef brisket is slowly simmered for hours and hours with seasonings that give it a unique flavor and texture. Nothing exotic, just good strong black coffee, Worcestershire sauce, mustard and brown sugar.

And in case your refrigerator isn't cleaned out by now, add a can of cola - regular or diet - it won't matter. You'll have a dark, smoky sauce to serve with your sliced brisket, or make pulled barbecue sandwiches.

Any way you have it, the secret is yours to keep or share.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 1 day, 1 hour
Ready In: 1 day, 1 hour and 15 minutes

Texas-Style Brisket Crockpot Recipe

8 pounds beef brisket - do not trim the fat
1 cup strong black coffee
1 bottle (12 ounces) ketchup
1 can cola - Coke, Pepsi, RC - your choice
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon liquid smoke
Kosher salt and ground black pepper

Season the brisket with the kosher salt and black pepper. Put it into the crockpot, fat side up. Pour the coffee over the meat, cover the pot and cook on low for 24 hours.

Whisk together the ketchup, cola, mustard, brown sugar and liquid smoke. Store it in an airthght container until you're ready to use it.

When the meat has finished cooking, remove it from the crockpot. Discard any fat from the meat and skim the surface of the cooking juices to remove any fat. Shred the meat and return it to the crockpot. Add the reserved sauce and stir well to coat the meat.

Cook the brisket another hour or until the meat and sauce are heated through.

Good To Know - An 8 pound piece of meat may not fit in your crockpot in 1 piece.

Cut the brisket in half or into portions that will fit. The meat will shrink as it cooks.

If you use a smaller brisket to begin with, be sure to adjust the cooking time. A 4 pound brisket should take about 2 1/2 to 3 hours per pound - and that's at the very lowest temperature.

Food For Thought - This recipe is easy to spice up - omit the ketchup and add spicy BBQ sauce, 1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce, such as Tabasco and 1 tablespoon of jalapeno chili powder.

The other juices will absorb some of the heat and round out the flavors so this won't be such a shock to your tongue!

Yield 20 Servings
Amount Per Serving: Calories 353, Fat 27g, Cholesterol 75mg