PitmasterX’s Classic Brine Recipe
Brining is a century or even millennium old technique to make your meat more tender, flavorful and storable for longer periods of time. This brine is the basic brine that I will use in many of my recipes and is suitable for chicken, pork, lamb and beef.This brine recipe is the batch that i use for any large cut of beef. You could brine a piece of meat till around 5 kg with this recipe. Adds lots flavor.
Ingredients
- 100 ml warm water
- 50 grams fine kitchen salt
- 25 grams sugar
- 4 juniper berry's
- 2 bay leaves
- 10 pepper corns
- 3 cloves
- 900 ml cold water
Instructions
- Take a skillet and heat up 100ml water.
- When the water is warm, add the salt, sugar, juniper berries, bay leaves, pepper corns and cloves to the pan. Let this come up to a boil.
- Add the cold water and take the pan off the heat source.
- Let it cool down to room temperature. Once all the sugar and salt crystals are dissolved, the brine is done.
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