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Ground Beef Recipes

Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipes

Best Instant Pot ground beef recipes your whole family will love for dinner or lunch! Simple comfort food recipes like

  • Serves 6
  • Prep 5 minutes
  • Cook 5 minutes

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Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipes

I have several posts breaking down my long list of pressure cooker recipes into categories. This one focuses on the best ground beef recipes around. If you’re looking for easy Instant Pot recipes we have a ton!

What to Make in Instant Pot with Ground Beef

If you’re looking for what to cook with ground beef tonight, we’ve got lots of ideas!  One thing you will NOT find on Zopago are recipes with hard to find ingredients, that is just not me. You can use the cheapest variety or lean ground beef for them all. A little bit of fat is actually good though, adds to the overall taste of the dish. 😉

I am a busy mom of 3 who works full time and I don’t have more than 30 minutes total to cook much of anything. With this “magic pot” of sorts you too can have dinner on the table every single night with very little prep work or intervention in between.

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You can use these in your Crockpot Express, IP or as easy Ninja Foodi recipes too. All these pots have the high pressure and saute functions so they will work the same. With the Foodi you will use the lid that is not attached to pressure cook the ideas below.

Just throw it all in to these dump and go one pot meals and it will be ready to serve for kids and adults alike. You can cook in pot or PIP method like we did with our Instant Pot ground beef and potatoescasserole.

If you’re new to using this clever device go ahead and read my post on how to use an Instant Pot first and then come back here.

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Instant Pot Recipes with Frozen Ground Beef

If you forgot to defrost you can also cook Instant Pot frozen ground beef in it. I will explain both methods in the recipe card below for you. In the case that the meat is solid you would need to follow these steps, then drain the liquid and at that time you can follow any of the following recipes with other ingredients added in.

If you wanted to use ready to use frozen meatballs for example like we did with our meatball stroganoff there is no prep beforehand. Just add in with your sauce and pressure cook.

Easy Instant Pot Hamburger Recipes

Instant Pot chiliuses some tomato sauce, beans and meat with a bit of chili powder. You will also love our comfort food we call ou reasy Cheesy Instant Pot goulash dish.

Instant Pot cheesesteak pastawith bell peppers we love. Flavorful Instant Pot taco meat takes beef in the Instant Pot to the next level. We love our Instant Pot ground beef stroganoff here. All you need is a bit of salt and pepper for seasoning. The best Instant Pot vegetable beef soup is easy peasy.

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Ground Beef with Spaghetti Sauce Recipes

We think that these homemade Porcupine meatballs in Instant Pot are super yummy and cheap too. Was a hit with ground sausage too.

Almost all of these can be “spiced up” with half spicy ground sausage and half hamburger meat too. That is how we add a ton of flavor easily. Instant Pot stuffed pepper casserole is easier than how you ate these as a child.

If you’ve never made stuffed peppers before they are really tasty. Easy Instant Pot stuffed peppers are just like you remember in your childhood but much faster cook times. NO need to blanch peppersbeforehand, the pot does all the work for you y’all. Casserole is a bit easier to make if you’re looking for super simple. I recommend using a wooden spoon when sauteeing your meat to avoid scratching the pot.

Easy Instant Pot lasagna is fun if you want a traditional Italian dish but a lot less work. Skip those floppy hard to handle noodles and use small shells or any other shape you want. It has all the flavor and ingredients but NO Layering or boiling required beforehand.

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Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipes with Pasta

You can make just some simple Instant Pot taco meat for a quick meal with packaged seasonings, tortillas and cheese. This cheesy Instant Pot hamburger casserole casserole is amazing, could use elbow macaroni instead

I mean, you can’t go wrong with adding cheese to really any of these creations. Stirred in at the end and/or sprinkled on top and gently place lid back on so it melts, both turn everything amazing.

Cheesy Instant Pot nacho soupis great. Just saute the meat until it’s no longer pink and then throw in your other ingredients. Great as is or with small shell noodles submerged into the liquid. Ground beef is great inside Instant Pot cheeseburger macaroni

Ground beef is so very versatile and really inexpensive too. There are a multitude of ways to use it and many are quite healthy if you buy 90/10 and drain the grease but will have a bit less flavor than 80/20 since fat=flavor.

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Try pressure cooker sloppy joes on small slider buns for fun. If you are new to using a pressure cooker I would recommend starting with my easy spaghetti recipe. It is fast, not hard to follow, and only needs a few inexpensive ingredients. It is pretty much a no fail recipe that is one of my most popular one.

  • This easy Instant Pot hamburger stroganoff is creamy with noodles and meat
  • Low carb soup with ground beef is a good one too
  • Barbecue bacon meatloaf uses just the pressure cook function and comes out really tender.
  • Yummy Instant Pot salsbury steak here uses hamburger

It’s been a huge hit amongst everyone who visits Zopago looking for Instant Pot recipes.

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Recipe card

Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipe

54 Instant Pot ground beef recipes are here. From taco meat to casseroles made with fresh or frozen hamburger meat.

  • Serves 6
  • Prep 5 minutes
  • Cook 5 minutes
  • Course Entree, Main Course
  • Cuisine American

Ingredients

  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • salt and pepper (to taste)

Method

  1. 1

    If your ground beef is defrosted then hit saute on your pot and add olive oil. Put meat in and break up into smaller pieces. Cook until browned. Add seasonings and stir. Turn pot off and serve.

  2. 2

    For frozen ground beef in Instant Pot you need to add 1 c of water into the inner pot and then lower down a trivet. Set meat on top and cook on high pressure for 5 minutes with a 10 minute natural release. Drain water and saute meat, breaking up into small pieces and cook as you'd like.

Equipment

  • 1 pressure cooker

Nutrition

  • Serving1 oz
  • Calories233 kcal
  • Protein13 g
  • Fat20 g
  • Saturated Fat6 g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
  • Monounsaturated Fat10 g
  • Trans Fat1 g
  • Cholesterol54 mg
  • Sodium51 mg
  • Potassium204 mg
  • Calcium14 mg
  • Iron1 mg

Questions

What is the best ground beef to cook with?

Ground beef is so very versatile and really inexpensive too. There are a multitude of ways to use it and many are quite healthy if you buy 90/10 and drain the grease but will have a bit less flavor than 80/20 since fat=flavor.