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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
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• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> French >> French

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a small bowl, mash the salt and thyme into the puréed garlic with the flat side of a large kitchen knife. | 2. Beat the oil and pepper into the garlic mixture and spread this mixture over both sides of the brisket. | 3. Toss the vegetables in a large bowl with a little salt and thyme. | 4. Spread half of the vegetable mixture in the bottom of a roasting pan. | 5. Place beef, fat side up, on top of the vegetables. | 6. Cover with the remaining vegetables. | 7. Cover the pan tightly with foil. | 8. (This dish may be prepared to this point in advance and refrigerated.). | 9. When ready to cook, cook--basting with pan juices every 1/2 hour--in a 300° oven 3-4 hours until a fork goes into the meat easily; by the end of cooking, the meat will have shrunk. | 10. **** If you are not serving the meat until the next day, transfer the meat with its vegetables to a smaller pot; degrease the juices and pour them over the brisket and chill, uncovered, until cooled; then cover and keep in the refrigerator up to 2 days. To reheat, put this dish in a 350° oven for 20 minutes, basting 2-3 times with its juices. ****. | 11. Remove the beef with its vegetable topping to a cutting board. | 12. Pour the juices into a saucepan, degrease, and rapidly boil down almost to a syrup. | 13. If you wish, you can thicken the juice into a sauce with 1-1/2 Tbs cornstarch blended with 2 Tbs of either wine or stock. | 14. Carve the meat across the grain into thin slanting slices. | 15. Accompany each serving of meat with 1-2 spoonfuls sauce and vegetables. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
garlic clove	1 -2		pureed	-	-	-	-
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
thyme	1/2	teaspoon	dried	0.40399999999999997	0.0978	0.0222	0.0067
olive oil	1/4	cup		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
pepper	1/8	teaspoon		0.7216	0.1839	0.0299	0.0094
beef brisket	4		center-cut trimmed	2812.32	0.0	375.9437	133.7213
onion	1 1/2	cups	sliced	96.0	22.416	2.64	0.24
carrot	1	cup	sliced	52.48	12.2624	1.1904	0.3072
italian plum tomato	2	cups	cored chopped	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.