This Instant Pot stuffed cabbage is a great dinner filled with ground beef, rice, cheese and tons of flavor. Just a few minutes in your pressure cooker!
Yep we are at it again with another dinner to add to our 101+ easy Instant Pot recipes and this one has cabbage! I wasn’t a fan when I was younger but after making this for my husband when we first got married in my slow cooker I started to really enjoy cabbage and have made many other recipes using it which I will share below, this Instant Pot stuffed cabbage is now one of my favorites because I can make it so easily and quickly. (affiliate links present)
I made a version of this a while back called Instant Pot stuffed cabbage casserole that came out well but there is something about the traditional style that we love too.
So here is Instant Pot stuffed cabbage, you’ve gotta’ try them!
So good right???
I have a 6 qt Instant Pot and have a few accessories I use, this bowl is one that works well for this easy cabbage recipe.
Start by making Instant Pot white rice which only takes a few minutes, then proceed to the next steps.
This is what you will need to make Instant Pot stuffed cabbage
- Electric pressure cooker
- Instant Pot or Ninja Foodi
- 7″ bowl
- Cabbage leaves
- Cup of water
- Diced tomatoes
- Cooked rice – white rice or brown rice
- Ground beef – this is how to defrost Instant Pot frozen ground beef in case you forgot to thaw it out the night before. 😉
- Italian sausage – spicy is good
- Salt and pepper
This is what your stuffed cabbage rolls will look like when they’re put in the pan and on the trivet inside your pot.
This is how to make this:
First you’ll want to get your rice cooking in any way you prefer. I pressure cook it but that is up to you, set aside when done. On the stove top get a pot of water boiling and add in each cabbage leaf in order to soften them a bit.
- Take your cooked cabbage (not mushy cooked, just softened so you can roll/fold them) out and place on a paper towel
- Set Instant Pot to saute, add sausage, olive oil, onions and cook until meat is no longer pink. Turn pot off now. Add cooked rice and tomato sauce into your mixture, stir.
- Move this meat mixture to a bowl and rinse out your pot.
- Pour water into your pot with a trivet inside.
- Put 1 cabbage leaf on a cutting board, spoon in meat rice mix and roll up like a present
- Place this with folded side facing down into a 6-7″ oven safe dish or springform pan
- Then pour diced tomatoes on top of it all like in the photo above.
- You can add any seasonings now, at least salt and pepper is great
- Set to high pressure cook time for 15 minutes
- I like to quick release the pressure when done
- Spoon out on to a plate and sprinkle with more seasonings and parmesan cheese
You can add spices of your choice but if you use spicy Italian sausage you really don’t need a lot. For a really flavorful and spicy stuffed cabbage dish just use the sausage and omit the ground beef.
I have added some diced onion as well too at times if I have it.
Looking for more simple cabbage recipes?
- Our Instant Pot fried cabbage is amazing.
- Then try an easier version than this but with all the same flavors with this Instant Pot stuffed cabbage casserole recipe.
Here is the printable recipe.
Instant Pot Stuffed Cabbage
Ingredients
- 1 head cabbage
- 1/2 lb Italian sausage spicy is best
- 1/2 lb ground beef
- 2 c Instant Pot rice white or brown, cooked
- 1 can diced tomatoes petite, 14 oz., with chiles is good
- 1/2 onion diced
- 1 tsp seasoning salt optional, I use Lawry's if I add it.
- 3/4 c tomato sauce or spaghetti sauce
Instructions
- Make rice so it is precooked, use your Instant Pot to make it (2 cups). Remove core from cabbage and gently remove the largest outside leaves off, boil for about 3 minutes just so they soften.
- Turn your Instant Pot on to the saute mode and add sausage and ground beef. Add diced onion and seasoning salt if you want to add that.
- Mix in cooked rice and tomato or spaghetti sauce.
- Lay cabbage leaves out on a large surface and stuff with meat and rice mixture.
- Fold the ends of the cabbage leaves over and roll up. Place in a springform pan or oven-safe dish that will fit in the Instant Pot (6"-7" dishes fit in my 6 qt.), with the folded side of the rolls down.
- Rinse out pot from meat mixture. Add 1 ½ cups of water to the inner pot of the Instant Pot, then a trivet goes in too. Pour diced tomatoes over the cabbage rolls, place the dish on trivet in the Instant Pot.
- Close the lid of the Instant Pot and turn to sealing position. Set for a manual high-pressure time of 15 minutes.
- When the time has finished, allow for a natural release. Serve with additional rice if desired.
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Beth Moss says
for stuffed cabbage rolls: Confused On what you mean by adding one 1-1/2 cups water to “inner pot”. Do you mean to the oven safe dish that will contain the stuffed cabbage? Or the slow cooker pot that goes inside of the Ninja Foodi?
The Typical Mom says
The inner pot is underneath the dish with the cabbage in it so it can steam.
Tracy Lucas says
Justine I want to try this with my new pot. What kind of dish is safe to put in this cooker metal, glass, ceramic dinner dishes etc… confused on this
The Typical Mom says
There’s a link in the post that is blue for the 7″ bowl.
Carrie Kleckner says
This recipe for stuffed cabbage is my childhood right there! I loved them as a kid & would love them even more now! Thanks for sharing!