I bought this piece of beef brisket for about $AUD30. It weighs nearly 2 kg. It will give me enough meat for six meals. If I add something like an egg or some plant-based food, the cost per meal would be about $AUD6.50. This would be <$USD5 and <£GBP4 for a meal that consist of about 300 grams of meat.

This is less expensive to almost any scotch fillet steak in a supermarket. It’s also more filling and on a par for flavour.

Recipe for a hot brisket bowl

Ingredients

• Brisket
• Salt
• Spinach leaves
• Cherry tomatoes
• Green olives
• Cheddar cheese
• Pure cream

Equipment

• Slow cooker
• Frypan
• Oven

Instructions

1. Cut the large piece of brisket with a sharpened butcher’s knife.
2. Put the fist-sized chunks of meat into the slow cooker with a cup of water and a tablespoon of cooking salt.
3. Cook the brisket for 8 hours.
4. Transfer the meat to a sealable bowl and refrigerate.
5. Filter the cooking liquor and refrigerate. After the filtrate has cooled, the beef fat will solidify and be easy to lift away from the beef broth which will be gelatinous.
6. When preparing the meal, take a portion of the meat from the refrigerator and cut it into small cubes.
7. Wash some spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes, and green olives.
8. Roughly cut the tomatoes and olives.
9. Put the meat, spinach, tomatoes, and olives into a cold frypan. Add a few tablespoons of the gelatinous beef broth.
10. Put the frypan on a hob and turn on the heat to low.
11. The beef broth will liquefy and begin to simmer. Keep stirring until the liquid evaporates. The meat will begin to breakdown.
12. When the liquid has evaporated, turn off the heat and transfer the contents of the frypan to a heat-resistant glass bowl.
13. Add some grated cheddar cheese and pure cream.
14. Put the bowl into a baking dish filled with water.
15. Cook the brisket bowl in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.
16. Eat the meal straight from the bowl with a spoon.

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Thoughts on the meal.

The brisket bowl was tasty, filling, and delicious.

The added plant-based food is relatively low carbohydrate and adds to the mouthfeel of each bite.

Questions for readers

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1. Do you enjoying cooking and eating beef brisket?
2. How do you prefer to cook brisket?
3. What’s your favourite brisket meal?
4. What’s your most economical beef-based meal?

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