Pressure Cooker New England Boiled Dinner (2024)

Pressure Cooker New England Boiled Dinneris a plain, delicious, stick to the ribs, piece of meat with colorful vegetables dug from the earth.

My family has always enjoyed New England Boiled Dinner/Corned Beef and Cabbage all year round. The corned beef cooks away on the stove for hours and then veggies are added and it cooks even more.

You will almost always find corned beef and cabbage in any Jewish restaurant and deli. My tribe loves the stuff! 🙂

I’ve taken my families recipe and made this otherwise long cooking meal into mostly a hands off, 1.5 hour process, using the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker.

What is New England Boiled Dinner?

New England Boiled Dinner is just a big ole platter of food with the corned beef in the middle and various root veggies colorfully sprawled all around. It’s good food, which is not fancy, just down right delicious, comforting and satisfying.

President Cleveland claimed it the best dinner he had in months, after taking over as president from President Arthur in 1885.

You see, President Arthur enjoyed fancy food, like foie gras and charlotte russe. He was even known to add oysters to mac and cheese to fancy it up.

We’ve got the plainest, squarest, clunkiest, and most wonderful meat and potatoes meal in America he proclaimed!

Ingredients for Instant Pot New England Boiled Dinner

• New England Corned Beef – they grey one if possible, but red is fine
• Cabbage
• Potatoes, Turnips, Rutabaga, Carrots, Beets
• Pickling Spices– if your corned beef brisket does not come with a packets of spices, you will need to getPickling Spices
• Peppercorns,Whole Cloves
• Onion
• Beets, if you like

My Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe is very similar to Instant Pot New England Boiled Dinner, but does not include a slew of root vegetables and definitely not beets! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!

Instant Pot New England Boiled Dinner is the most delicious and the quickest way to make this Vermont traditional meal. No more pot on the stove to make sure water did not boil over!!!

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I get so many comments and questions on my posts, so I try to provide as much information as possible about the recipe to help you, my readers.

I try to provide as many tips and tricks and answer anticipated questions, so your recipe will be the best, the very first time, including how and why my methods work. This extra bit of information should help to provide you with a perfect cooking experience every time.

If you would rather skip right to the recipe, please scroll to the bottom of this page, where you will find the full and complete printable recipe.

Another delicious vegetable that would be great as a side dish is my Low Carb Brussels Sprouts Alfredo Sauce. It’s creamy and pairs nicely with corned beef.

What to Make with Leftover New England Boiled Dinner

• Egg Rolls, totally, seriously, you must buy extra corned beef, just to make myAir Fryer Pub Style Corned Beef Egg Rolls with White Wine Brandy Mustard Sauce, the next day! These are truly amazing! Thousand Island dressing makes a nice dipping sauce too for a Reuben egg roll.
• Reuben sandwiches. So much yum here. Rye bread, corned beef, cabbage and Thousand Island dressing.
• My famous Instant Pot Reuben Pasta. Wait until you taste all the deliciousness.

For a change of pace, try my Pressure Cooker Corned Beef with White Wine Brandy Mustard Sauce.

It is quite delicious and the White Wine Brandy Mustard Sauceis great to toss over your eggs the next morning.

Traditionally, if cooking on the stove, the corned beef is first put into a pot with water and simmered for about five minutes. This is the way I have made this since I was a child. The meat will shrink a lot!

How Much Corned Beef to Buy?

• Corned Beef is a fatty cut of meat. which has been cured with salt.
• The corned beef will shrink quite a bit after the parboil stages, so plan on buying about double the amount.

The parboil stage in the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker will quickly remove the excess salt and the nasty scum. Yuk!

You will need to rinse out the pot and remove the scum and add the corned beef back to a clean pot.

Why Parboil Corned Beef?

• Corned Beef is a very fatty cut of meat.
• When doing a quick parboil, much of the fat will loosen and scum will be released.
• The final cooking water Instant Pot New England Boiled Dinner will be clear and scum free.
• As corned beef is a cured brisket, parboiling helps to release the excess salt from the curing process.
• For theInstant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cookerversion, the salt and scum quickly is removed.

Another recipe where parboiling to remove impurities, like scum is my Instant Pot Vietnamese Spare Ribs. It is a quick method and preferred over soaking the meat or bones for hours. This same process is used in my Instant Pot Vietnamese Pho recipe. Pho is a noodle soup.

How to Season Instant Pot New England Boiled Dinner.

The pickling spices add goof flavor and peppercorns and whole cloves are enough to give great flavor.

The flavors of all the vegetables combined makes this a wonderful meal.

For Instant Pot New England Boiled Dinner, an 8 quart (or larger) Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker is preferred since there are a lot of veggies to be added.

What Vegetables go in Pressure Cooker New England Boiled Dinner?

• Potatoes –Rutabaga –Turnips – Carrots –Cabbage –Onions –Beets

Use whichever veggies you like. I generally skip the beets, but it does color the water nicely, along with the other veggies.

If using a 6 quart Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker, just add the veggies in the liquid and add the cabbage right on top.

Keeping the core on the cabbage in tact, will help keep the cabbage together during pressure cooking.

You can also cook the cabbage after cooking the root veggies since cabbage cooks so quickly.

If you are only using a few potatoes and a small cabbage, you can leave the corned beef in the pot, if you like.

Since the liquid is already screaming hot, you won’t need much time for the turnips, rutabaga, carrots, potatoes and cabbageto cook.

As you can see, my 6 quartInstant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cookeris more than large enough to use a big ole head of cabbage!

Don’t forget to make extra as Corned Beef Sandwiches on Rye Breadis the bomb. Plus, I have a fabulous recipe for your leftovers.

More Instant Pot Cabbage Recipes to Make:

• Instant Pot Crack Slaw [Low Carb Egg Roll Bowls]
• Instant Pot Corned Beef and Cabbage
• Pressure Cooker Cabbage and Sausage
• Instant Pot Egg Roll Bowls [Low-ish Carbs]

The full and complete recipe is found below on the Recipe Card.

Kitchen Equipment and Essentials

• Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker
• J.A. Henckels Classic 8 inch Chef’s Knife
• Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
• Simply Gourmet (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
• Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
• My FANTASTIC Teak Cutting & Charcuterie Board & Compartments

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