Smoked Baked Beef Brisket in the Oven

All season brisket when it’s too hot or cold to grill outside. This genuinely seasoned, madly flavorful oven baked beef brisket recipe makes this barbecue treat available to anyone, whether you have a backyard, live in a one room apartment or the day is threatened by bad weather.  With the use of vinegar in the recipe, you don’t have to marinade the beef.

Selecting a Beef Brisket 

The recipe uses a three to five-pound beef brisket that has been moderately trimmed of excess fat.
 Be sure the brisket you select is FRESH.  The recipe is not for a corned-beef brisket.

Oven Baked Brisket in 5 Easy Steps  

1. Marinade meat optional 
2. Soak wood chips
3. Make sauce
4. Dry rub brisket
5. Assemble and bake

You can pick up smoking chips at most of your local supermarket or hardware store that sell barbecue supplies such as charcoal.  I used mesquite or hickory depending on the meat and desired flavor.   Smoking connoisseurs have preferred types of woods for conveying specific flavors to the meat - apple for a light sweetness, mesquite for a deep penetrating Hispanic Southwest flavor, aromatic alder for a more subtle smoke on fish and seafood.  Check that the pre-packaged smoking chips haven’t seen any pesticides or chemical additives. Break the large chunks of wood into small chips.  If you don't want an added step, make sure to get small smoking chips and not wood chunks.  Soak the chips for 30-60 minutes. Drain before using.

Line the bottom of a heavy roasting pan with foil and then the chips.

Ingredients

Peel and slice 1 whole onion.
3 cloves of garlic
Fresh sprig of Turkish oregano or similar hot and spicy oregano
McCormick Grill Mates Slow Low Smokin Texas BBQ Rub
McCormick Grill Mates Mesquite Marinade
Make the dry rub and the sauce.
Apply the rub to the brisket, sauce and bake.

Sauce Recipe for Oven Smoked Beef Brisket
Sauce Ingredients:

4 tablespoons strongly brewed black coffee.  Make extra morning coffee and let cool.
4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
4 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
4 tablespoons liquid smoke, flavor depends on wood chips
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon A-1 Steak Sauce

Instructions:

Combine all sauce ingredients in a container with a tight fitting lid.
Give it a few vigorous shakes; set aside.

Oven Baked Beef Brisket Recipe 

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 250-300°F depending on your oven.
2. Place large piece of foil in bottom of pan. 
3. Place the soaked wood chips on foil. Place another layer of foil, poke holes and top with sliced onion, oregano and garlic in the bottom of a roaster pan large enough to accommodate the brisket.
4. Arrange the place the wood on bottom with onions layer on top so that they are mostly in the center of the pan; so that the brisket will rest on onions as it bakes.
5. With the dry rub, liberally season the brisket by rubbing the seasoning on every surface of the meat. Sometimes briskets have splits and folds. Make sure that every surface is well seasoned. It is expected that the entire dry rub recipe will be used on a four-pound brisket.
6. Place the seasoned brisket on the bed of sliced onions, fat side up.
7. Fold up sides of all layers of foil.
8. Pour the entire smoking sauce recipe over and around the brisket.
9. Tightly seal the meat with sheets of aluminum foil top and bottom.
10. Place in the center of pre-heated oven and bake for 4½ hours.
11. Remove from oven and allow brisket to rest for 30 to 60 minutes before slicing to enjoy.

Brisket is best when thinly sliced against the grain. Serve it with your picnic sides for the day or make great sandwiches.  It is delicious served with traditional barbecue item such as baked beans, green tossed salad or pickled cucumber salad and corn-on-the-cob.