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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First time using an instapot and it turned out delicious 😊😉😉. Cannot wait to try some more of your recipes 😊😉👍👍
This was amazing. Corned beef was so tender and flavorful as were the veggies. I will definitely be using this recipe in the future. .
I’ve made this recipe twice and my family and friends loved it!
Hello there, I meant to comment when I made this last month. The meat and carrots came out perfect, however, the cabbage and potatoes were hard as rocks. After removing the carrots and meat, we tried cooking the cabbage and potatoes again (mind you both the cabbage and potatoes were cut up as the directions called for, they remained hard even after a 2nd go around. Other than that it was decent.
I made this tonight and it was incredibly easy and tasted fantastic! The only changes that I made were because I had a slightly larger cut (3.5 lbs) so I added an extra cup of water (after using four cups of broth) and added 5 minutes to the cooking time. The carrots and cabbage were perfectly cooked at 6 minutes because I added a ton. No potatoes only because the kids wanted mashed potatoes instead.
So, perfect cooking times and super tasty meal.