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    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage

    23 · Apr 13, 2020 · 4 Comments

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    This Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage is one of those super simple recipes that are full of flavour and make you go: "wow that was easy!".

    Basically, all you need to do is put all the ingredients in the inner pot of your Instant Pot and let it do its thing while you do yours.

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    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage recipe by Feisty Tapas - served on a white plate with a tea towel with orange pom poms and a mug with the initial M in the background and white worktop surface

    So, what will you do?

    Put your feet up?

    Do some gardening?

    Do some reading?

    Go browse all my Instant Pot recipes?

    Go over to my Pressure Cooking UK with Feisty Tapas group to tell us that you are cooking this recipe and browse others?

    Can I make this without the pork?

    You might be thinking:

    "Right, Maria, this sounds great but I have cabbage and soy sauce, etc and no pork, can I still cook this?.

    Yes, yes you can!

    Anything goes, have bacon? Use it. Same timings.

    Have chicken? Use it.

    Don't have meat at all? It will still be delicious!

    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage recipe by Feisty Tapas - served on a white plate with a tea towel with orange pom poms

    Do I need to double up the time if I double up the ingredients?

    No, timings remain the same.

    In pressure cooking timings don't really change unless you're cooking a joint of meat or whole chicken where heat needs time to get to the centre.

    But Maria, no liquid?

    You know me, I'm a daredevil when it comes to liquid.

    I wrote the Golden Rules of the Instant Pot Way of Cooking so I can break them, right? 😉

    In this recipe in particular the pork and cabbage both release liquid as they cook plus you have the soy sauce and fish sauce.

    That said, you will need a well maintained Instant Pot, no messing about with this one.

    A well-maintained Instant Pot (or two or ten) is how I get away with using very little liquid.

    The less chance the steam has to escape, the less chance of a Burn warning.

    And you have the post and videos you need to have a well-maintained Instant Pot right here.

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    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage

    Ingredients

    Fancy printable recipe card with all details further down

    1.

    Slice pork fillet and add to the inner pot with sauces and spices. Mix well. Let it marinade a bit while you slice the cabbage and carrots and add to the inner pot and stir to mix well.

    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage recipe by Feisty Tapas - all ingredients in inner pot

    2.

    Pressure cook for 5 minutes. 10 minutes natural pressure release or just let it go to Keep Warm until you're ready to eat.

    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage recipe by Feisty Tapas - right after cooking

    Serve and enjoy!

    Now, don't tell me that wasn't easy?

    You're going to try it, right?

    Fancy schmanzy recipe card below.

    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage recipe by Feisty Tapas - served on a white plate with a tea towel with orange pom poms and a mug with the initial M in the background
    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage recipe by Feisty Tapas - served on a white plate with a tea towel with orange pom poms and a mug with the initial M in the background - featured image

    Instant Pot Pork and Cabbage

    Maria
    A delicious recipe that is full of flavour and yet is as easy as putting all the ingredients in your Instant Pot and letting it do its thing
    5 from 1 vote
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    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 40 mins
    Course Main Course
    Servings 2 people, you can double or triple the ingredients always being mindful of the filling rules - same cooking times if you do

    Equipment

    • Instant Pot

    Ingredients
      

    • Half pork fillet sliced
    • Half cabbage sliced
    • 2 or 3 carrots thickly sliced
    • 2 tablespoon light soy sauce
    • 1 teaspoon fish sauce
    • 1 teaspoon Chinese five spice
    • 10 or so Sichuan pepper corns not essential if you don’t have them, it’ll be nice without too

    Instructions
     

    • Slice pork fillet and add to inner pot with sauces and spices. Mix well. Let it marinade a bit while you slice the cabbage and the carrot and add to the inner pot and stir to mix well.
    • Pressure cook for 5 minutes. 10 minutes natural pressure release or just let it go to Keep Warm

    Notes

    Doubling the ingredients? No need to double the cooking time, it stays the same. You should however be mindful of the filling rules at all times.
    You can double up this recipe, even triple it but always be mindful of the filling rules, for this type of recipe you can only fill up to the ⅔ line with all ingredients. 
    When a recipe has ingredients that expand or foam up (grains, rice, pasta, pulses, etc.), make sure you only fill up to half way with all ingredients. 
    *Terminology
    Quick pressure release (QPR, also called quick release or QR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
    Natural pressure release (NPR, also called natural release or NR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid. 
    Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example a recipe may have a 4 minute NPR followed by a QPR. You wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting. 
    Keyword cabbage, Instant Pot, pork fillet, Pulled Pork, soy sauce
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    Comments

    1. Mimi M. says

      December 05, 2021 at 10:37 pm

      5 stars
      This is my very first Instant Pot pressure cooker.
      Very first trial since we bought it last week.
      SIMPLE, EASY, and absolutely DELICIOUS!
      The pork melted in our mouth
      My husband never used his knife to cut ,
      no need it just fell apart with one touch of the fork !
      The vegetables kept their shape and taste.
      A dash of mustard Dijon or powder did great too .
      Thank you so much !
      It was ready in 5 +10 =15 minutes as directed

      Reply
      • Maria says

        December 08, 2021 at 1:05 pm

        Yay, that makes me so happy Mimi. Thank you so much for letting me know. Mustard is a great idea

        Reply
    2. Laura Oueddir says

      January 06, 2022 at 9:14 pm

      Question- how does this work in a pressure cooker with no liquid to create the pressure? I don't see any mention of water or broth in the recipe.

      Reply
      • Maria says

        January 12, 2022 at 10:07 am

        Hi Laura,

        The ingredients release enough liquid to reach pressure. This is very handy to get away with less liquid.

        There is actually a whole section about this in the post itself so make sure you read it in full, it's the section called "But Maria, no liquid?".

        Hope that helps,

        Maria

        Reply

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