Sous vide brisket takes the guesswork out of achieving the perfect brisket. Finish the brisket on your grill, smoker or in the oven for the flavorful, deep-colored bark that you love.
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🤩 Here is why this recipe is amazing:
- The extended cooking time makes this tough cut of meat super tender without having to heat your kitchen or babysit the meat.
- Finish this brisket on the smoker and get the classic smoked flavor and crust that is coveted by brisket lovers everywhere.
🥩 Ingredients needed:
- Brisket - available as a flat cut or point cut, this recipe will work with either cut.
- Salt and pepper
- BBQ Sauce - optional but many people love it.
♨️ How to sous vide brisket
- Bag up the meat - Vac and seal the brisket in a sous vide bag.
- Heat the water in your sous vide machine to 155.
- Cook the brisket for 24-36 hours.
- After the cook, remove the meat from the water bath and plunge in ice water bath to cool if not smoking the meat right away.
🔥 How to finish the meat
- To finish the brisket, drain the liquid away from the bag, saving it to add to a sauce or use it to help reheat the meat.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper over the surface of the meat and smoke the meat on a grill or smoker at 300 for 2-3 hours or until the internal temperature is 170. I have a rec-tec grill and I LOVE IT. Read all about it.
- To serve, slice the meat in thin slices.
📝 Frequently asked questions, answers and tips:
Reheat slices of smoked brisket in a saute pan with a bit of water, or warm on the grill or smoker in a pan with a bit of water in the bottom to keep the meat from drying out. The juices from the sous vide bag work well for this.
I like to cook a brisket with sous vide for 24 hours if the water temperature is 155 but I have been known to let it go for 36 hours and had delicious results. Another option is to lower the temperature to 135 and extend the time to 36-72 hours.
Preheat oven to 300°F (150°C).
Remove brisket from the sous vide bags, saving the juices and blot with paper towels.
Brush the surface of the brisket with BBQ sauce, thinned with a little bit of the juices of the bag.
Place brisket on a wire rack set in a rimmed baking sheet, fat cap up, and place in oven. Roast until a dark bark has formed, about 2 hours.
Smoke or finish the brisket in the oven with the fat cap up. This will help keep the moisture in the meat.
If a smoker is not available but you still want a smoky flavor, add ¼ teaspoon liquid smoke and ¼ ounce of pink Prague powder (to help give you the look of a smoke ring) to the sous vide bak before cooking.
🍽️ More Sous Vide Beef Recipes
- Sous Vide Beef Tenderloin - Edge-to-edge consistent doneness, with no chance of overcooking, will take the fear out of cooking this expensive cut of beef.
- Sous Vide Prime Rib - Herb crust surrounds the most succulent and juicy roast beef, cooked to your desired doneness.
- Sous Vide Guinness Stew - Full of deep, rich comforting flavors the Guinness Beer is the star of this tender beef stew.
- Sous Vide Beef Stroganoff - fall apart in your mouth beef while maintaining a medium rare center to the steak bites. The stroganoff sauce is creamy, silky and full of layers of flavor.
- Sous Vide Beef Burgundy - Combining the techniques and flavors of a traditional beef burgundy with the advanced technology of sous vide cooking will make you change the way you cook beef burgundy forever.
- Sous Vide Roast Beef -the most delicious roast beef turning an inexpensive cut of beef into a memorable meal.
- Sous Vide Beef Brisket -take the guesswork out of achieving the perfect brisket. Finish the brisket on your grill, smoker or in the oven for the flavorful, deep-colored bark that you love.
Sous Vide Brisket
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EQUIPMENT
Ingredients
- 1 5 lb brisket
Instructions
- Vac and seal the brisket in a sous vide bag.1 5 lb brisket
- Heat the water in your sous vide machine to 155.
- Cook the brisket for 24-36 hours.
- After the cook, remove the meat from the water bath and plunge in ice water bath to cool if not smoking the meat right away.
- To finish the brisket, drain the liquid away from the bag, saving it to add to a sauce or use it to help reheat the meat.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper over the surface of the meat and smoke the meat on a grill or smoker at 300 for 2-3 hours or until the internal temperature is 170.
- To serve, slice the meat in thin slices.
Notes
Remove brisket from the sous vide bags, saving the juices and blot with paper towels.
Brush the surface of the brisket with BBQ sauce, thinned with a little bit of the juices of the bag.
Place brisket on a wire rack set in a rimmed baking sheet, fat cap up, and place in oven. Roast until a dark bark has formed, about 2 hours. Sous vide smoked brisket tips Smoke or finish the brisket in the oven with the fat cap up. This will help keep the moisture in the meat.
If a smoker is not available but you still want a smoky flavor, add ¼ teaspoon liquid smoke and ¼ ounce of pink Prague powder (to help give you the look of a smoke ring) to the sous vide bak before cooking.
Nutrition
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Sarah Mock
Sandi,
thank you so much for letting me know how it went! I love the feedback and I hope to see you back here for more recipes.
Sarah
Sandi
This was my first time ever making brisket so I was a little nervous but it turned out amazing and everyone raves about it!