Is corned beef salty? I’m curious because I was looking around online and see that corned beef is just brisket that has been preserved in salt.
Yes, the Boiled Dinner Corned Beef Meat is very salty - I just checked my package - a no-name Corned Beef Point- and it states 1100mg sodium for a 4oz serving....I don’t cook one that often - I think I might go for 2,000mg tonight!
I love Beets along with the dinner too - whether cooked or cold with vinegar - flavors really work well together. (I prepare them separately - not in the big ‘ole pot)
Yes the Corned Beef can be salty. That is how it is cured - in a salt water brine. If you soak it in water for about 30 minuets per pound before cooking the soaking helps to reduce the saltiness - use the water it was soaking in to boil your veggies for the flavor.
The term corned beef or just the term “corned” comes from the British. In the “Olden” days before refrigeration they used very coarse salt pellets that looked like and were about the same size as a kernel of corn and covered the beef or other meats in the salt pellets to preserve it. Thus the term “Corned”. In the US we mostly use a salt water brine to “corn” the beef.
My wife and I are having a corned beef supper tonight with cabbage, small new potatoes, carrots and onions - I am cooking the beef in a pressure cooker right now!