Pork Cottage Roll in Instant Pot
Canadian pork brined cottage roll in the Instant Pot is Super easy and tasty
Servings 6
Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Pork Cottage Roll (your size may vary so adjust accordingly)
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 4 cups water (you may need more or less water)
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp peppercorn
- 1 tbsp pickling spices (optional) not required
Roast Vegetables
- 5 potatoes
- 3 carrots
- 2 onions
- 1 cabbage
Finishing Glaze
- 3 tbsp yellow mustard
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
Instructions
- Remove the Plastic from the Cottage roll but leave the netting on the roll. Place in your Instant pot on the metal holder.
- Add the water to the Instant Pot. You want the meat just almost covered. Add more/ less water depending on the size of your Instant Pot and the size of your cottatge roll.
- Add the whole garlic cloves, 1 large chopped onion, bay leaves, peppercorns, or use the all-in-one optional pickling spices if you are using them (I usually don't)
- Set the Instant Pot Main Pressure Cook for 30mins per lbs - 1hr for 2 lbs 1hr 30mins for 3 lbs. The Internal Temperature needs to be at least 160F. Allow your Instant Pot to Natural Release when the time is up.
- Remove pork from Instant Pot. Save liquid to make soup.
- You can eat as is or you can make an optional glaze and finish in the oven with some vegetables
- You have several choices for vegetable preparation. While the Cottage Roll is cooking prepare the vegetables. Clean, and cut your carrots, onion, potatoes, and cabbage. You want large chunky vegetables.
- Option 1 - Remove some of the liquid in the instant pot. Save it for soup. Add the large chunky vegetables. Set Instant Pot timer for 6 minutes. Use quick release.It takes a while to get all the liquid under pressure. This will make a boiled vegetable option.
- Option 2 - Place chopped carrots, onions, potatoes, cabbage into the bottom of a roasting pan. This takes a while but offers roasted vegetables.
- Set oven to 425.
- Mix ingredients of glaze. An additional option is to just brush some dijon or regular mustard on top, or nothing at all.
- Cut the netting off the cottage roll. If you are not roasting vegetables add a teaspoon of olive oil to the bottom of the pan so it won't stick.
- Place pork on top of vegetables and coat with glaze.
- Bake in the oven for at least 20-45 minutes until the vegetables are tender and the glaze is set.This makes the cottage roll less mushy and has more of a crunch to it. Those crispy pork bits are the best!
- Remove, slice and enjoy!
