For more easy, filling Instant Pot meals, check out my recipes for Instant Pot Pork Chops and Gravy, Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff Soup, or Instant Pot French Dip Sandwiches. Vegetables — Whether you like a lot or a little, the veggies are also the stars in this stew. Speed up prep time even more by substituting frozen veggies if you prefer them to fresh in this dish. Instant Pot — You can’t have an Instant Pot without the “Instant” part right? And, although it will take about 45 minutes of your time (but only about 10 of that is hands-on), it’s a whole lot faster than cooking this stew for hours and hours like a typical recipe would require. Potatoes — There’s no stew of any sort without potatoes in my book. The baby gold potatoes cook up just perfectly, soft, fork-tender, and are a great vehicle for soaking up all that yummy beef stew juice. Worcestershire Sauce — Another one of my secret ingredients, I put this sauce on lots of recipes featuring beef because it has a lovely saltiness and tang (just a hint!) that offsets the garlic and Italian seasonings just perfectly.
Expert Tips
Here are a few of my favorite ways to take this Instant Pot beef stew meal to the next level!
Skip the potatoes. Don’t like potatoes or don’t have any? No problem. Just skip them, and add more veggies instead! Mix up the spices. If you don’t have Italian seasoning, you can use a teaspoon each of oregano, basil, rosemary, and parsley. Add a little spice with paprika or cayenne pepper. Serve over rice. Or noodles too for that matter. All that sauce would be just lovely over the top of egg noodles or white rice. Use chicken. Swap beef for chicken breast and beef broth for chicken broth. Easy, simple, still delicious.
Swap out the gold potatoes for baby red or any other favorite potato you have. Just make sure to cut the potatoes into uniform pieces (½ – 2 inches) for even cooking. When buying the beef, I like to use beef chuck and cut it up myself, but you can also purchase pre-chopped stew meat or another cut of beef.
Don’t skip on searing the meat. This is your chance to lock in that delicious beefy flavor before cooking the stew all together in the Instant Pot. The sear will make for a nice, slightly crispy bite on the outside, and nice and tender on the inside. Make the slurry with the cornstarch and beef broth, this is key to getting the sauce to thicken up. A little cornstarch is magical I tell ya!
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