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    Home » Instant Pot

    How to Pressure Cook Braised Red Cabbage (with Instant Pot Instructions)

    Published: Dec 6, 2020 · Modified: Dec 21, 2024 by Maria Bravo · This post may contain affiliate links · 1 Comment

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    I’m going to show you how to cook Pressure Cook Braised Red Cabbage (with Instant Pot Instructions).

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    How to pressure cook Red Cabbage (with Instant Pot Instructions)

    How to Pressure Cook Braised Red cabbage (with Instant Pot instructions)

    Maria Bravo
    Ever wondered how to pressure cook Braised Red Cabbage? Let me tell you. Oh and let me tell you that it's so easy that it won't be just for Christmas!
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 11 minutes mins
    Course Side Dish
    Cuisine American, British
    Servings 8 people
    Calories 55 kcal

    Equipment

    • Instant Pot

    Ingredients
      

    • ½ red cabbage shredded or sliced
    • 1 red onion sliced
    • 2 eating apples peeled, cored and sliced
    • ½ teaspoon ground allspice
    • 1 pinch nutmeg freshly grated
    • 1 orange zested and juiced
    • 12 Juniper berries you can crush them but I prefer them whole and I discard them at the end as I love them for the aromatics but I don’t like biting into them
    • 150 ml water cold
    • 1 teaspoon vegetable stock paste diluted in the water

    Instructions
     

    • Place all ingredients in the inner pot and mix well.
      ½ red cabbage, 1 red onion, 2 eating apples, ½ teaspoon ground allspice, 1 pinch nutmeg, 1 orange, 12 Juniper berries, 150 ml water, 1 teaspoon vegetable stock paste
    • Make sure the sealing ring is properly in place and place the lid on.
    • Press Pressure Cook / Manual and programme 2 minutes, at the end do a Quick Pressure release. If you like it on the softer side, leave it to do an NPR. Want it crunchy? Cook for 1 minute with QPR or even for 0 minutes.

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    Notes

    You can also reduce the cooking time should you like it on the crunchy side. 2 minutes with Quick Pressure Release (as soon as I can get to the Instant Pot) is my favourite time.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 55kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 1gFat: 0.3gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.03gCholesterol: 0.03mgSodium: 81mgPotassium: 229mgFiber: 3gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 648IUVitamin C: 42mgCalcium: 38mgIron: 1mg
    Keyword Christmas, red cabbage
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    PRESSURE COOKING KEEPS THE BRIGHT COLOUR OF THE RED CABBAGE

    Red cabbage very much retains its colour when pressure cooked.

    It’s very much red.

    And by that I mean not grey like that one time I boiled it on the hob and the colour went down the drain along with the cooking water.

    It was the first time I cooked red cabbage and it was the nineties 🤣

    Step 1. How to pressure cook braised red cabbage (with Instant Pot instructions).jpg - Step 1 - add red cabbage to inner pot

    NO NEED TO CRUSH THE JUNIPER BERRIES

    I like the juniper berries for the aromatics.

    Some people crush juniper berries before adding to dishes but I prefer to leave them whole as I don’t like biting into fragments.

    Discard the juniper berries when serving or when eating.

    How to pressure cook braised red cabbage (with Instant Pot instructions) - All ingredients stirred

    YOU CAN FREEZE BRAISED RED CABBAGE

    Cook it ahead and freeze it.

    This is super handy if you are pressure cooking it for your Christmas Dinner.

    Just remember to take it out the day before or use my trick to reheat from frozen in a pressure cooker or Instant Pot but for only about 5 minutes.

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    About Maria Bravo

    Kitchen Gadget Geek extraordinaire. Tester of all things kitchen appliance. Clumsy cook, if I can't break it and get the most of it, you know that's a good kitchen gadget! Architect of online communities for kitchen gadget lovers

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    1. wendy burdon says

      December 27, 2020 at 10:04 am

      5 stars
      I made this about two weeks before Christmas and froze it. It was so easy and quick to make, and absolutely delicious!! Everybody loved it and there were zero leftovers!! This will be my go to recipe every year now.

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