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Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

 

 St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday this year.  While in our younger days, this would have meant heading out on the town and celebrating with friends, that’s not necessarily what we want to do, and we also don’t really have the time to. Family life can be hectic and Friday nights are no exception.  Soccer games, gymnastics practice, and birthday party plans are all on the calendar for next weekend, and if we want to celebrate the day we need to minimize prep and planning! The one thing we NEVER go without on St. Paddy’s day is corned beef and cabbage!! Thanks to Pepto for sponsoring today’s instant pot corned beef recipe.
 
Given the crazy schedule we have — I need to make our St. Patrick’s day festivities SIMPLE. My Friday afternoons are usually: pick up my 2 younger kids at school plus 2 kids we carpool with: 3:20. Home, give kids snack, leave for gymnastics with the 3 littlest kids at 4:30. Drop kids off 4:50, head back home. Arrive home 5:20. There’s often a Cub Scout meeting and or a soccer game on Fridays as well, so we don’t usually eat until close to 7 pm.
St. Patrick's Day Recipes
 
 So tips for St. Patrick’s Day? KISS it! Keep It Simple, Silly! Make a quick meal, and if you want some fun decorations, head to the dollar store or party store. The dollar store is much closer so guess where I’m heading? Yep! Some gold chocolate coins, fun green necklaces, maybe even a little pot for the gold and you’re set for some festive fun!
 
My FAVORITE part of St. Patrick’s Day is making corned beef and cabbage.  Which, as I understand from my Irish friend Orla, isn’t even the traditional meal for St. Paddy’s Day. I’m perfectly ok with that. We LOVE corned beef in this house, so some of us tend to have extra hearty helpings of dinner when it’s served. I won’t name names. Even if it’s not traditionally what the Irish do eat for St. Paddy’s Day, it’s kind of become an American St. Patty’s Day tradition, and perfect for noshing on in celebration!
 
If you’re going to partake in some adult beverage consumption, Guinness is generally the beverage of choice for St. Patrick’s Day. Or Killians Red.  Just consume in moderation and don’t drink and drive! For the kids? Green milk, or if you don’t want to dye your milk, make a simple punch for them with a little pineapple juice, lime sherbet, and sprite- so much fun and so simple to do!
 
 

Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage Recipe

This classic dish, is simplified using the InstantPot, cutting the cooking time down significantly.

Ingredients

  • 3-4 lb corned beef
  • 1 cup baby carrots, cut in half or thirds - you can also use regular carrots, but we're focused on time saving today
  • 4-5 red potatoes, cut in half and then in thirds
  • 1/2 head cabbage, chopped
  • 1 cup water
  • Optional if no seasoning packet was included:
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 tsp red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1/4 tsp coriander seeds
  • 1 bay leaf
  • *You can also toss a few teaspoons of pickling spice if you REALLY want to simplify!

Instructions

  1. Place corned beef in instant pot. Sprinkle seasoning packet on top of meat or sprinkle garlic powder, black pepper and bay leaf on meat. Add water to instant pot.
  2. Set instant pot to manual for 30 minutes. When finished, quick release steam/pressure.
  3. Remove meat from pot, let set, covered in foil.
  4. Place potatoes, carrots and cabbage in instant pot (leaving juices in pot) and set to manual for 7 minutes.
  5. Check to make sure vegetables are tender. If not, return to Instant Pot for 2-3 minutes. Release steam/pressure.
  6. Remove from pot and serve with sliced corned beef.
Category: Instant Pot
 
Corned beef and cabbage recipe

 

 
St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef and Cabbage
 

What are your tips to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Are you like me and always have that #PinkRelief on hand just in case? 

 

 
 

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I'm a 40 something lifestyle blogger living in Connecticut with my husband and our 3 kids, plus our two rescue pups. We love to hike, travel, play games, watch movies, and just be outside together! Having 3 active kids makes for a hectic schedule and I try to share content, recipes and other things that can help to make today's busy family life simpler, easier, or just plain more fun!

I started working full time at a local middle school in fall 2021 and some of my students are insistent that I am mean.

Comments

  1. Lynndee says

    You just made me so hungry! 🙂 I prepared corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day last year. Didn’t do it this year, but I think I’m going to make one next week.

  2. Ana Rose | Roads and Pages says

    We don’t have St. Patrick’s Day in the Philippines. So, reading your blog post made me informed on how St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated. Well, it is near so I guess it will make you super busy. 🙂

  4. Melissa says

    This looks DELISH! Being vegetarians we are just going to go for the cabbage! And we are definitely getting an instant pot after reading your post! Happy holidays!!

  7. Meagan says

    Talk about the perfect St. Patty’s Day dish! I haven’t had Corned Beef and Cabbage in years! I need to try this recipe!

  8. Tara says

    I plan on having corned beef and cabbage for St. Patrick’s Day. We don’t have an Instant Pot though. I’ve been so many great recipes I’ll have to see about getting one.

  12. lisa says

    This would save SO much time on St. Patrick’s Day. I bet this would be a selling point for my mom to finally get an Instant Pot!

  14. Amy Desrosiers says

    Corned Beef in the pressure cooker is my favorite. I am actually making some tomorrow for my family. I stocked up at Shaw’s.

  19. reesa says

    What a great time saver!!! I love cooking corned beef but it can take hours which I don’t often have!

  20. jo says

    Wow, this is the second cabbage recipe I’ve seen in a day. And they all look new to me. Are they a thing now or are they St. Patrick related thing to do? I am totally clueless sorry. But what a nice way to incorporate both. I’ve tried only corned beef without the cabbage but I’ll soon add it!!! 😀

  21. Dhemz says

    wow, yours looked really good! I can never perfect my meat when it comes to making corned beef cabbage. Thanks for sharing.

  22. Echo says

    Yum! I love corned beef and cabbage! I can’t wait to make it. I don’t have an instapot, but I will use my crockpot!

  23. Eloise says

    This looks super tasty! I can’t believe St Patty’s is just around the corner, it’s sneaking up fast and I feel so under-prepared…ahhhh! thanks for the recipe : )

  25. adriana says

    This sounds and looks like an amazing meal! I love that you used the instant pot, so smart! Sounds great!

  26. Debra Schroeder says

    I’ve never made corned beef cabbage because it seemed like so much work. So totally excited to see yet another amazing Instant Pot recipe. Looks like we might have corned beef and cabbage for St. Patty’s.

  30. Ann Bacciaglia says

    I love my Instant Pot. It has really changed the way we eat. This recipe looks delicious. I will have to give it a try this week.

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