Our Recipes: Oven-Roasted Beef Brisket Joint

Ingredients:
- 2lbs/1kg beef brisket joint
-1/2 garlic head (each clove peeled and cut in a half)
- 3 bay leaves
- 4 allspice berries
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper 
- 1/4 tsp red crushed pepper
- 1/8 cup canola oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 small or medium-sized baking sleeve

Preparation:
- The night before cooking put beef in a bowl/baking pan and line with aluminum foil. 
- Pour canola oil over the beef and smear it all over. 
- Sprinkle all the spices evenly on the whole meat piece. 
- Put garlic all around the meat. 
- Wrap the brisket with aluminum foil and put away into the fridge until baking time. 
- On the baking day, preheat the oven to 160C.
- Unwrap the beef and move it into the baking sleeve. 
- Add 1/2 cup of water and close the bag with the clip for the baking sleeve. 
- Move the beef in the sleeve into a clean baking pan and put in the oven. 
- Bake 2.5 hours.
- The sleeve will behave like a big bubble after several minutes of baking. You can use a skewer or a pointy knife to poke a hole in the sleeve.  
- When the beef is done, carefully cut the bag open. Be careful - the steam which will come out of the bag is very hot. Move the beef with a large fork onto a serving dish. Cut into slices.
- Bon apetit!

Makes 6 servings.