Story: Caroline's Home Comforts
Episode: 10
Presenter: Caroline Taylor
Air Date: 20th August
Caroline reaches into the comforts of her childhood to pull out a family favourite - corned beef sandwiches.
RECIPE
Corned Beef Sandwiches with Homemade Mustard Sauce
Ingredients
- 1.5kg corned silverside beef
- 5 cloves garlic
- 4 stalks celery roughly chopped
- 3 carrots halved and roughly chopped
- 1 onion quartered
- Handful of thyme
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 can of ginger beer
- 1 tablespoon stock powder
- Slug of Worcestershire sauce
- Slug of balsamic vinegar or red wine
- Enough water to cover the meat.
- 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
Mustard Sauce
- 1 Tablespoon of mustard powder
- 1 tablespoon of raw/brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
Method
Corned Beef
- Place all the ingredients in a pot, cover the meat with water and slowly simmer with a lid on for around 4 hours or until the meat is easy to stick a fork or butter knife into.
Mustard Sauce
- Mix mustard, egg, sugar and vinegar into a bowl until combined
- Take 1/2 a cup of stock from the corned beef and heat in a saucepan until it simmers on a low heat.
- Add Mustard mixture and continue to simmer while stirring until the mixture is thick enough to coat the spoon.
Assembly
- Slice cold corned beef into thick or thin slices, your preference, set aside.
- Slather mustard sauce down on the base of some thick white bread
- Add meat, then sliced tomato, sliced cheese and red onion (the onion gives it a great bite)
- In a pan, melt some butter and a bit of oil (can do this in a sandwich press also) sprinkle some grated cheese down and then place sandwich on top of the cheese.
- Press down and leave for a minute or so, monitor the temperature so you don’t burn it.
- Flip and repeat, add more butter or oil if necessary.
- Slice and enjoy!