How to Make the Perfect Corned Beef & Cabbage
This Roasted Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe only requires one pan and ten minutes of prep! While it’s roasting, rich flavors comingle and create a juicy, tender dish that will become a family favorite.
St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so now is a great time to print your Corned Beef & Cabbage recipe and have it ready to go when you pick up your corned beef brisket on sale at the grocery store.
I’ve made corned beef in the crockpot, the Instant Pot, and in the oven, and all methods work great, but my family prefers it roasted in the oven with a slightly crunchy crust on the brisket.
To get the crust, I let the corned beef sit uncovered under the broiler for just 2-3 minutes at the end of cooking and that is the trick to a perfect corned beef in my opinion.
Last year I also made a beer-braised corned beef and cabbage in the Instant Pot and my family loved it as well.
Take advantage of the hot sales on corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes at Safeway to prepare this traditional Irish meal!
Which one should you buy? Point Cut, Flat-Cut or Round Flat Cut? The main difference between point-cut and flat-corned beef is that point-cut beef has more fat content. Flat-cut corned beef is leaner, which means it has less fat.
Traditional Roasted Corned Beef & Cabbage Recipe Ingredients
How to Make Corned Beef & Cabbage in the Oven
Preheat oven to 350º.
Remove the roast from the packaging and rinse the brisket under cold water to remove the excess sodium mixture.
Place the corned beef brisket into a medium roasting pan, fat side up.
Spread grain mustard evenly over the top of the brisket and sprinkle the contents of the seasoning packet over the brisket.
Tightly cover the roasting pan with aluminum foil and place it in the oven for 3 hours.
Meanwhile, chop the cabbage, carrots, and potatoes and place them into a large bowl.
Drizzle olive oil over vegetables and toss with salt and pepper.
Remove the brisket from the oven and evenly place the carrots and potatoes around the brisket and top with cabbage wedges.
Tightly seal the pan with aluminum foil and return to the oven for an additional 2 hours.
If you want a well-seared brisket top, remove the foil and turn on the broiler in the oven to high at the end of cooking. Broil for just 2-3 minutes before removing from the oven.
Remove the brisket from the pan and loosely tent with aluminum foil. Let it rest for 15 minutes.
Slice the brisket against the grain and serve.
Roasted Corned Beef and Cabbage
Ingredients
- 4 lbs. corned beef brisket with seasoning packet
- 2 Tbs coarse grain mustard
- 1 head cabbage cut into 8 wedges
- 3 - 4 medium carrots cut into 1" pieces
- 6 medium red potatoes cut into 1” wedges
- 2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º.
- Remove the roast from the packaging and rinse the brisket under cold water.
- Place the corned beef brisket into a medium roasting pan, fat side up.
- Spread grain mustard evenly over the top of the brisket and sprinkle contents of seasoning packet over brisket.
- Tightly cover roasting pan with aluminum foil and place in the oven for 3 hours.
- Meanwhile, chop the cabbage, carrots and potatoes and place into a large bowl.
- Drizzle olive oil over vegetables and toss with salt and pepper.
- Remove the brisket from the oven and evenly place the carrots and potatoes around the brisket and top with cabbage wedges.
- Tightly seal the pan with aluminum foil and return to the oven for an additional 2 hours.
- If you want the crunchy top, remove foil and turn on the broiler in the oven to high at the end of cooking. Broil for just 2-3 minutes before removing from the oven.
- Remove the brisket from the pan and loosely tent with aluminum foil. Let rest 15 minutes.
- Slice brisket against the grain and serve.
Nutrition
Thanks to our friends at Safeway for letting us share this recipe with you.
Check out additional Irish dishes here:
Instant Pot Beer Braised Corned Beef & Cabbage
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I don’t think the nutritional information is correct.
Nutrition
Serving: 0g | Carbohydrates: 0g | Protein: 0g | Fat: 0g | Saturated Fat: 0g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 0mg | Potassium: 0mg | Fiber: 0g | Sugar: 0g | Vitamin A: 0IU | Vitamin C: 0mg | Calcium: 0mg | Iron: 0mg
Hi Maddi – I’ve updated the nutritional information on the recipe card. Thanks for pointing out that it was missing.
If you have a three pound brisket instead of a four pound one.. do you lower the oven temp and/ or time ?
yes, you can decrease the time by 20 min.
I had the same issue, but had a much smaller piece of meat with hardly any fat. Obviously, this did not produce the juice required.
Learned how to evaluate the meat first prior to following a recipe exactly. Still, great recipe!!
Thanks for the recipe. I’m going to try it out this weekend.
What do we do with the 1-2 cup of reserved juices?
Hi Heather – that is a great question. I actually left all the juices in the pan and added the vegetables to the pan when I made this. I’ve updated the recipe as it was provided by Safeway because I don’t think the juices should be removed from the pan before adding the vegetables.
Perfect corned beef and cabbage. I followed the recipe exactly and the whole family loved it! Thanks for sharing.
I have the Safeway link for this recipe that I use every year, but this time my link wouldn’t open, so I searched online and found this recipe with the same picture. YOU FORGOT THE WATER in the recipe, so guess what, we’re going out to dinner. I questioned not using water in the back of my mind, but went by the recipe. It comes out perfect every year…. I wish I had listened to my gut! This would be a 5-star if the recipe had the water in it.
Hi Billie – Sorry it didn’t work for you, however there is no water in the recipe that Safeway shared with us. I made this without water just as the recipe and video shows and had no issues. The corned beef has enough liquid that seeps out during the cooking process. You can see Safeway’s original post of this recipe, which also does not call for water here: https://www.recipesandmeals.com/safeway/detail/0/roasted-corned-beef—cabbage.html