Vavo's Sous Vide, Salt Plank, Smoked Brisket

Vavo Rodrigues
Vavo Rodrigues @vavoskitchen

This recipe is for the meat purist. No pellets here, just hard wood smoked brisket with the perfect mixture of moisture, texture and taste.

Vavo's Sous Vide, Salt Plank, Smoked Brisket

This recipe is for the meat purist. No pellets here, just hard wood smoked brisket with the perfect mixture of moisture, texture and taste.

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Ingredients

44 hours
15+ people
  1. Full brisket 20lbs or so
  2. 1 1/2 gallonscold water
  3. 1 cupWorcestershire sauce
  4. 2 cupscourse sea salt, separated
  5. 3 cupsdark brown sugar, separated
  6. 8 clovesgarlic, smashed
  7. 2Limes, halved
  8. 2Lemons, halved
  9. 1orange, quartered
  10. 1large white onion, quartered
  11. 1/2 cupground black pepper
  12. 1/2 cupgranulated garlic
  13. 1/2 cupsmoked paprika
  14. 1 cupmustard

Cooking Instructions

44 hours
  1. 1

    Bring water to a light boil, add salt and brown sugar, (set aside 1 cup salt and 1 cup brown sugar for rub) and turn off heat, stir until dissolved

  2. 2

    Add 5 lb of crushed ice to brine bag, and slowly add hot water mixture, stirring ice

  3. 3

    Add remaining ingredients to brine bag, squeezing all citrus and placing fruit pieces in bag.

  4. 4

    Add meat to brine bag and seal

  5. 5

    Place brine bag/meat in a large cooler and pack with ice so it stays cool. Let brine for 24 hours

  6. 6

    After 24 hours of brining, remove meat and rinse in cold water

  7. 7

    Empty brine bag and put meat in empty bag, remove all air using a straw or vacuum food sealer

  8. 8

    In a large cooler,, preheat enough water (155°) with your sous vide to submerge meat entirely

  9. 9

    Add meat to sous vide bath and let cook for 36 hours at 155° *be sure to check water every few hours and add more as necessary

  10. 10

    When meat is done, remove from bag saving juices

  11. 11

    Preheat smoker to 220° with salt slab(s) in the center of smoker

  12. 12

    Pat meat dry, then rub with mustard, then with brown sugar and sprinkle with remaining sea salt

  13. 13

    Place meat fat side up on salt slab(s) and close lid on smoker

  14. 14

    Smoke for 4 hours, injecting left over meat juices once each hour

  15. 15

    Preheat oven to 250°

  16. 16

    After 4 hours in the smoker, remove meat and wrap with two layers of heavy duty tin foil and add to oven (in chafing dish) for 3 hours

  17. 17

    When done, remove from oven leaving wrapped in foil and add to room temp cooler/ice chest and close lid tightly, let finish for up to 3 hours, serve hot

  18. 18

    Recommend Vavoo's Brisket Sauce for this dish

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