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Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Brisket

Tangy honey mustard and low, slow cooking makes this the best brisket ever!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Brisket

Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Brisket

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

448Calories
27 gProtein
29 gFat
20 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Canola oil + mustardtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Sauce + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Honey + mustardtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (canola oil, pepper, beef, sauce, honey):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Mustardthe original
  4. Onionfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against canola oil, pepper, beef, sauce, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.