Smoked Pastrami Recipe | Oklahoma Joe’s New Zealand Smokers

Ingredients

• Pastrami
• 3 kg brisket flat, fat cap trimmed to 80 mm
• 6-7 apple wood chunks
• 2 tablespoons peanut or canola oil
• 1 cup beef stock in a spray bottle
• Brine
• 1.8 litres water
• 1 cup salt
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 3½ teaspoons pink curing salt
• 2 tablespoons coriander seed
• 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
• 1 tablespoon green peppercorns
• 1 tablespoon dried minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
• 1 tablespoon dry mustard
• 2 teaspoons ground allspice
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3-4 bay leaves, crushed up
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1.8 kg ice or 1.89 litres very cold water
• Pastrami Rub
• 1 tablespoon mustard seed
• ½ teaspoon fennel seed
• 12 tablespoons coarse ground black pepper
• ½ teaspoon dried minced garlic