Beef
- 3 kg MSA point end brisket
Marinade
- 200g barbeque sauce
- 15g chili powder
- 15g garlic powder
- 15g smoked paprika
- 10g mustard powder
- 10g ground cumin
- 15g brown sugar
- 1.5lt beef stock
Banh Mi
- 800g cooked beef brisket
- 5 short baguettes, ends trimmed, halved crossways
- Lime mayonnaise
- 500g roasted eggplant
- 200g crispy kale
- 100g pickled cucumbers
- 100g shredded carrots
- 125g green onions, sliced on the diagonal
- 125g coriander, leaves picked
- 25g long red chillies, deseeded and finely sliced
- Pre-heat oven to 95°C, 60% steam, 40% heat. Take the brisket out of the fridge for at least 30 minutes prior to starting.
- Rub brisket with half of the barbeque sauce.
- Combine the dry spices and sugar and coat the brisket evenly.
- Place brisket in a gastronorm tray 12 cm deep. Add beef stock to ¾ full.
- Cover tightly with baking paper and foil. Cook for 10-12 hours until tender.
- Remove from oven, take beef out of gastronorm. Strain braising liquid into a saucepan, cool and allow fat to rise to top. Remove fat.
- To the strained liquid, add remaining barbeque sauce, bring to the boil and reduce to coating consistency.
- Slice brisket across the grain.
- To assemble - Place baguette bases on serving plates. Spread with lime mayonnaise, top with brisket, eggplant, kale, cucumbers and carrots.
- Finish with green onions, coriander and chillies.