Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage
Hooray, it’s March! And you know what that means. It’s almost St. Patrick’s day! Time to go hunting for leprechauns and see if you can snag yourself a pot of gold! Me, I’ve never caught one, but I don’t mind. I’ve already got a pot full of something magical in my kitchen: corned beef and cabbage. This hearty Irish dish is so good, with the salty, garlicky beef lending its flavor to all the veggies in the pot.
The only catch is, it takes a long time to make. Beef brisket is a pretty tough cut of meat, so you have to let it simmer pretty much all day to get it nice and tender.
Unless, of course, you cook it in the Instant Pot.
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With my new Instant Pot, I can now make my traditional Crockpot Corned Beef and Cabbage in just a couple of hours. The beef cooks up tender in only 90 minutes, and then the veggies are done in just a few minutes more. Then you put it all together on a platter, and your Irish meal is served. If your corned beef brisket does not come with a spice packet, I have a recipe for one over in this post.
Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage
INGREDIENTS:
4-5 garlic cloves
4 cups water
2.5-3 lb. corned beef brisket, including spice packet or DIY spice packet
2 lbs petite red potatoes, quartered
3 cups baby carrots
1 head green cabbage, cut into large wedges
DIRECTIONS:
1. Place corned beef brisket, spice packet, garlic and 4 cups of water into the instant pot. I used the rack to keep the brisket off the bottom of the pot.
2. Cook on 90 minutes using the meat/stew setting or high pressure for 90 minutes. Once time is up, quick release pressure. Remove corned beef to a platter and cover with foil. Let rest while cooking the vegetables.
3. Without discarding liquid, add potatoes, carrots, and cabbage to pressure cooker, you may remove the rack if desired.
4. Cook at high pressure for 4-5 minutes. Do a quick pressure release before removing vegetables.
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Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage
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Ingredients
- 4-5 garlic cloves
- 4 cups water
- 2.5-3 lb. corned beef brisket - including spice packet
- 2 lbs petite red potatoes - quartered
- 3 cups baby carrots
- 1 head green cabbage - cut into large wedges
Instructions
- Place corned beef brisket, spice packet, garlic and 4 cups of water into the instant pot. I used the rack to keep the brisket off the bottom of the pot.
- Cook on 90 minutes using the meat/stew setting or high pressure for 90 minutes. Once time is up, quick release pressure. Remove corned beef to a platter and cover with foil. Let rest while cooking the vegetables.
- Without discarding liquid, add potatoes, carrots, and cabbage to pressure cooker, you may remove the rack if desired.
- Cook at high pressure for 4-5 minutes. Do a quick pressure release before removing vegetables.
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Why does it say cook 90 min on high or medium? I have a pressure cooker what should I do? Thanks
I used the meat/stew option on my Instant Pot with is a high pressure setting.
Your recipe looks tasty, but you may want to recheck your Instant Pot manual. There is no medium pressure setting on an Instant Pot, only high pressure and low pressure on the Duo models, and high pressure only on the Lux models. The Meat/Stew button is simply a timed setting, which can be changed by the user and will “remember” the time for the next time the button is used. The less, normal, and more settings that can be adjusted refer to cooking time, not pressure. Here is the relevant section: The “Meat/Stew” key is for cooking meat and stew. The “Adjust” key can be used to change the cooking TIME to achieve the desired meat texture. In general, the “More” setting is for fall-off-the-bone cooking results.
Thank you for sharing a recipe for an Instant Pot. I’m a newby with one and I’m anxious to try this one. Looks so good. Do you have any other recipes for an Instant Pot?
I’m trying it tonight! Will let you know how it goes. Excited to find this recipe… it looks easy enough that even I can do it.
I have a mini instant pot with a 1 and half lb of corn beef how much water do I need
What changes would I make using a crock pot and how long would I Cook it? I don’t have an insta pot.
Hi Cathy! I have a post on how to make corned beef in the crockpot here! https://www.familyfreshmeals.com/2013/02/crockpot-corned-beef-and-cabbage.html
Instant Pots don’t have a medium pressure setting. It’s either low or high for manual or the meat stew mode. So what’s the proper setting to use?
High setting Michael.
Pretty new to the Instapot world. This recipe was easy and really delicious. I’ve learned to add 15-20 minutes to the total time given, in order to accommodate the time it takes to come up to full pressure before the cooking time starts counting down. (This recipe took an extra 35 minutes, since the Instapot had to pressurize for the meat, and a second time for the veggies.) Total time from start to table was more like 2 hours 25 minutes. One question: After I took the meat out and put the veggies in, I set the Instapot to cook for 5 minutes, as directed. However, once the pot was fully pressurized and it beeped, the pot showed 0:00 and then began counting up. And it didn’t stop at 5 minutes, either. I caught it at 7, and pressed cancel, then did the quick release. (Veggies were perfect , by the way.) Any idea why my Instapot counted the minutes UP instead of down for the veggies? (It counted down from 90 to 0 just fine with the meat.)
It sounds like you may have missed the beep when it came to pressure and started counting down. I’ve never had or heard of any other time it counted up except when it was done cooking and in the process of natural release.
Hi, you probably have a keep warm setting. I turn that feature off. That is why it counted up after it was done pressure cooking.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe you set the timer for zero, which is an option. That would have brought your instant pot to pressure, and with a 7-minute natural release, you still were able to cook the vegetables. Just a thought.
Doug, when the pot reaches pressure, it counts down from the time you set. Once it’s done, it starts at 0 and counts up for the pressure release. It would be nice if we could set this also, but my pot doesn’t. You could just set a timer but the pot will let you know how long the pressure has been releasing.
Mine counts up when the warm setting is on