Crockpot Low Carb Corned Beef Cabbage + VIDEO

Crockpot Low carb corned beef and cabbage omits the potatoes but keeps the best part…the beef & cabbage! Make this popular St. Patrick’s Day recipe with ease in the slow cooker or Instant Pot.

I know everyone is saying this but I cannot believe St. Patrick’s Day is this upcoming weekend. My corned beef & cabbage with potatoes recipe is one of my most popular recipes in March so I figured I would update my corned beef recipe without the potatoes for a nice low-carb recipe.

Ingredients Corned Beef & Cabbage

There are only 5 ingredients in this slow cooker or Instant Pot corned beef & cabbage recipe. 

• Corned beef brisket WITH spice packet
• Cabbage
• Onion
• Carrots
• Garlic cloves

How To Make Corned Beef & Cabbage

Cooking low-carb / keto corned beef & cabbage in the slow cooker is very easy. If you use the Instant Pot, you have two options which are explained in the recipe box below. 

Slow Cooker Instructions

1. Add carrots, garlic, and onion to bottom of slow cooker.
2. Add corned beef brisket on top.
3. Pour water on top of all the food. Sprinkle spice packet on top of meat and vegetables.
4. Cook HIGH 4-6 hours or LOW 8-12.

FAQs

WHAT IS CORNED BEEF

Corned beef  is beef brisket that’s cured in a seasoned brine. When cooked, the corned beef will have a dull, gray color on the outside. Don’t worry, this is normal. This means it’s cooked. When you slice the corned beef, the inside should have the normal pink coloring that you’re used to. The pink coloring in corned beef comes from the beef being cured in either saltpeter or sodium nitrates.

I always buy my corned beef with a spice packet but that’s just me. If you don’t want to use the spice packet that came with the corned beef, you can use your preferred homemade spice bracket or you can omit it all together.

TRADITIONAL IRISH FOOD?

I recently read an article about the history of corned beef and cabbage that referred to it “as Irish as spaghetti and meatballs”. In short, the story goes that back in the day in Ireland, a common dish to serve for dinner was pork and potatoes. When the Irish immigrated to America, the working class Irish-Americans started eating corned beef rather than pork because it was more affordable. From there a new tradition was born and pork and potatoes was replaced with corned beef and cabbage. It’s Irish American!

Making This In The Instant Pot

There are a couple of different ways to make corned beef & cabbage. What you see here in the pictures and video is the way of adding the corned beef brisket on top of a trivet/wire rack that’s placed inside the pressure and removing the beef while the cabbage and carrots cook. My other way is what I call the ‘lazy’ way and it works just fine. The lazy way to make this corned beef & cabbage in your instant pot is to add the beef directly to the base of the pressure cooker and once it’s done cooking, add the cabbage and carrots directly on top on top of the meat.  Instructions for both ways are included below in the recipe box. I chalk it up to personal preference.

I used a small 2 pound corned beef but my large 6-quart Instant Pot could have definitely held more. According to the Instant Pot website, a 2 pound corned beef brisket should cook for 70 minutes with 15 minute natural release for 2 pounds. I cooked mine for 65 minutes with a 10 minute natural release and it came out perfect. Your brisket might need longer than 75 minutes. A lot of factors contribute to the varying times like the cut of meat, how much water you’re using etc. If your meat isn’t tender to the touch after cook time is done, continue to cook it in 5-10 minute increments until it is. You might have to cut your beef to make it fit into the pressure cooker. That’s okay, do what you have to do, it won’t hurt the corned beef.

 

Notes About This Recipe:

• For those on whole30, I get my compliant corned beef from Costco. If there’s ever a question, about whether or not your corned beef is compliant, check the ingredients against the the whole30 additives sheet to be sure.
• I used a rather small head of cabbage. We’re not cabbage people in my household so I didn’t want a lot of cabbage going to waste. Cabbage will reduce as it cooks so feel free to use a large heard of cabbage.
• Corned beef is a tougher cut of beef so it needs to cook a little longer than other cuts. My 3 pound corned beef took 9 hours on low in the slow cooker and 105 minutes in the electric pressure cooker (Instant Pot).  Every appliance is different. How long it takes to cook will depend on how your appliance heats and how large or thick your corned beef is. You’ll know the corned beef is done when a knife pierces through the meat easily.

 

Other St. Patrick’s Day recipes you might enjoy: 

Irish Dublin Coddle

Corned Beef & Cabbage Soup

 Corned Beef & Cabbage with Potatoes

Corned Beef & Hash Breakfast Casserole

Jamaican Corned Beef & Cabbage

I used a 6-quart slow cooker /or Instant Pot.

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