Recipe and source notes

Colonial Boiled Dinner

8 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 3 pound beef brisket
  • ½ cup teriyaki sauce
  • 2 cups water (reserve 1 cup)
  • 3 to 4 small red potatoes, unpeeled
  • 3 to 4 carrots, peeled and quartered
  • 2 cups turnips, peeled and sliced
  • 2 large onions, quartered
  • 1 pound cabbage, cut into 6 to 8 wedges

Make it step by step

  1. Place beef brisket and teriyaki sauce in a large plastic bag or a glass dish.
  2. Refrigerate, turning two or three times, for 1 to 2 days.
  3. Place 1 cup water and cooking rack or steamer basket in a 4- or 6-quart Presto™ pressure cooker.
  4. Remove brisket from sauce and put on rack or in basket.
  5. Discard sauce.
  6. Close pressure cooker cover securely.
  7. Place pressure regulator on vent pipe.
  8. Cook for 40 minutes,at 15 pounds pressure, with regulator rocking slowly.
  9. Let pressure drop of its own accord.
  10. Remove meat and keep warm.
  11. Add reserved 1 cup water to pressure cooker.
  12. Put vegetables on rack or in basket.
  13. Close pressure cooker cover securely.
  14. Place pressure regulator on vent pipe.
  15. Cook for 3 minutes, at 15 pounds pressure, with regulator rocking slowly.
  16. Cool cooker at once.
  17. Serve brisket thinly sliced, surrounded by vegetables.

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