St Pattys Day Leftover Corned Beef Casserole Recipes

ST. PADDY'S DAY LEFTOVER CORNED BEEF CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Grease a 2-quart casserole dish.
• Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat until bubbly.
• Cook and stir onion in the melted butter until browned, about 8 minutes. Set onion aside.
• Stir corned beef, chili sauce, and mayonnaise together in a bowl.
• Spread sauerkraut in the bottom of the prepared casserole dish.
• Spoon corned beef mixture on top of sauerkraut.
• Sprinkle cooked onions on top of corned beef mixture.
• Top onions with 1/2 cup Swiss cheese.
• Cover casserole dish with aluminum foil and place in preheated oven. Bake 30 minutes.
• Cut individual biscuits in half. Remove casserole from oven and place halved biscuits on top of casserole. Bake until biscuits are lightly golden brown, about 18 minutes.
• Sprinkle remaining 1 cup Swiss cheese on top of casserole. Return to oven and bake until cheese is melted, 3 to 5 minutes.

ST. PATTY'S DAY CORNED BEEF

Steps:

• BE SURE TO DISCARD ANY BRINING LIQUID THAT COMES WITH THE MEAT- INCLUDING THE SPICE PACKET!
• Trim all visible fat from the meat- this may take some time (I use kitchen shears to ease this process).
• Place meat in a large Dutch oven and cover with water.
• Add ale, bay leaves, cinnamon stick, cloves, a light shake of crushed red pepper flakes, peppercorns, garlic, and the onion chunks to the pot.
• Bring to a boil, then lower heat just a bit and boil very gently, with lid ajar, for 4-5 hours or until meat is so tender that is breaks apart when you pull at it with a fork.
• Keep checking the pot from time to time to prevent boilovers- you will need to keep lowering the heat throughout the cooking process as the liquid reduces, especially in the first hour (It should still be hot enough to still gently boil, but not spilling over the sides of the pot).
• Meat should be very, very fork tender when ready for the next cooking stage and will have shrunk considerably from its original size.
• In the last half hour or so of cooking time, boil the carrots and potatoes in a separate pot of water to cover and cook until fork tender; Drain vegetables and set in a small bowl.
• Remove meat and onion pieces from boiling liquid (discard that liquid) and set into a large roasting pan (I usually pour the liquid through a strainer to catch the onion pieces).
• Surround meat with boiled carrots, potatoes, and onion pieces.
• Combine dry rub ingredients in a small bowl and rub all over the meat surface and sprinkle any remaining rub over the vegetables.
• If needed, make up extra dry rub to coat the vegetables (we often do this).
• Bake, uncovered, in a preheated 325°F oven for about 20 minutes until the top of the meat begins to look shiny.
• Remove from oven and wait about 10 minutes before slicing into thin slices along the grain of the meat.
• Note: The meat will take on a very bright red hue when sliced- this is perfectly normal and is a result of both the brining nature of corned beef and the red ale enhances this color.
• I often make an extra pan of vegetables sprinkled with a full batch of dry rub and include not only carrots and potatoes, but parsnips as well (treat parsnips the same as you would a carrot.) I have successfully half-doubled this recipe when only larger corned beef cuts were available- larger cuts will take longer to boil but the roughly the same time to bake because the baking stage is merely to cook the dry rub into a glaze.
• PLEASE NOTE: If you substitute regular brown ale, then you will not get the same result in both color and flavor (You may substitute another Irish ale or even an Irish lager if you must, but we really prefer the red ale).

ST PATRICK'S DAY CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Place red potato cubes into a large saucepan, cover with water, and bring to a boil. Cook potatoes over medium-low heat until tender, about 15 minutes; drain well.
• Place chopped cabbage into a saucepan and cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer the cabbage until tender and softened, about 15 minutes; drain well.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Lightly toss potatoes, cabbage, corned beef, and Swiss cheese in a large bowl until well combined.
• Stir together mustard, white wine, garlic powder, and black pepper in a bowl until smooth; mix into corned beef mixture.
• Spread the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Lay a phyllo sheet onto a work surface and spray with cooking spray. Place the phyllo sheet onto the casserole, folding the overhang back over the dish; spray the dry side of the overhang with more cooking spray.
• Repeat three more times, spraying, folding, and respraying the phyllo sheet each time.
• Brush the top of last sheet with melted butter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until phyllo sheets are crisp and browned and the casserole is hot, 45 to 55 minutes.