Ingredients

  • flat corned beef brisket
  • 1 onion
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 6 whole cloves
  • bay leaves
  • 1 tsp. rosemary
  • 1 green pepper
  • parsley
  • 3 peppercorns (or pepper)
  • 3 or 4 carrots
  • potatoes
  • 1 small head cabbage

Method

  • Rinse corned beef and put in a large pot.
  • Cover well with water.
  • Add sliced onion, garlic, cloves, bay leaves, rosemary, sliced green pepper, parsley and peppercorns or pepper.
  • Cook on top of stove at a slow rolling boil for 3 hours.
  • When 1 hour left, add sliced carrots; 15 minutes later add cubed potatoes. The last 15 minutes, add the cabbage, quartered.
  • Cook a total of 4 to 5 hours on stove top.
  • It is done when a fork goes in the corned beef easily.
  • Let meat sit for 15 minutes before carving. Cut against the grain.