Recipe - Steamed Corned Beef And Cabbage

1 Head cabbage
3 One half pound Corned beef
1 bn Carrots; tops removed

Remove outer leaves from cabbage and use to line steamer basket. Put corned
beef on top of leaves in basket and steam 2 One half hours.

Cut cabbage into 6 wedges. Put cabbage and carrots on top of corned beef in
steamer basket, and steam until corned beef and cabbage are fork tender,
about 30 minutes.

6 servings. Each serving: 409 calories; 263 mg sodium; 93 mg cholesterol;
26 grams fat; 16 grams carbohydrates; 28 grams protein; 1.96 grams fiber.

~ [STORY]

If you make corned beef every year for St. Patrick's Day, chances are good
that you boil it with the spices that often come with the meat. But there's
more than one way to cook corned beef.

Steaming works especially well with a fatty cut of meat like corned beef
because the steam actually melts the fat, so some of it drips off during
steaming.

We put a corned beef brisket in a steamer basket lined with cabbage leaves.
We did not use the spice packet that came with the corned beef, or any
seasonings in fact; only the cabbage. Our 3 1/2pound brisket took about
three hours to cook tender, but it came out full of flavor.

When we trimmed the fat off the top and cut or sliced up it, it felt firm but was
tender and juicy. It did not fall apart and lacked the stringiness common
in boiled beef.

Cabbage wedges and small whole carrots were added in a steamer basket above
the corned beef during the last 30 minutes of cooking, so their juices
would drip down on the meat. The cabbage had an amazing flavor, sweet and
almost delicate. A few of us tried the cabbage that had lined the steaming
basket; it was very limp but had acquired a wonderful flavor from the
corned beef juices.

Footer: TASTE (from TV Food Network) SHOW #TS1G07; hosted by David
Rosengarten.

"ST. PATRICK'S DAY: Steamed Corned Beef Is Better," By DONNA DEANE, LA
Times Test Kitchen Director, Wednesday, March 11, 1998

from Pat Hanneman (Kitpath) 98Mar12, a McBuster production

Recipe by: Donna Deane, LA Times

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by KitPATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Mar 12,
1998