Instant Pot BBQ Beef Brisket

beef brisket

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: pork shoulder

Pork shoulder is often less expensive and can be cooked similarly.

barbecue sauce

🥗Healthier: homemade tomato sauce

💰Cheaper: ketchup

Homemade sauce can reduce sugars and preservatives.

Trim the fat cap of the brisket to about an eighth of an inch thick.

Cut the brisket in half to fit into the pressure cooker.

Place the trivet in the pressure cooker.

Add 1 cup of water to the bottom of the pressure cooker.

Place one half of the brisket in the pressure cooker with the fat cap facing up.

Place the other half of the brisket on top of the first half in the pressure cooker.

Seal the lid on the pressure cooker and set it to cook on high pressure for 75 minutes.

Allow the pressure to come down naturally after cooking.

After 10 minutes of resting, remove the brisket from the pressure cooker.

Baste the brisket with a mixture of barbecue sauces on both sides.

Grill the brisket to caramelize the barbecue sauce, or alternatively, broil it in the oven.

Cut the brisket against the grain and serve.

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