Instant Pot Oxtail Stew

If you’re looking for a rich stew like Instant Pot oxtail soup, this is it! A unique hearty meal you can make in any brand of pressure cooker. Whether you’re an expert or need an easy Instant Pot recipe we will show you step by step how to make it.

With this method you can use the same pot for everything. Before we would cook oxtail in the oven and then transfer into a dutch oven or large pot to add the other ingredients. Once the meat is fork tender under high pressure there are tons of different recipes you can make with them beyond that point.

Let’s say you’re making this as an easy Ninja Foodi recipe. You’ll make the same way with the lid that is not attached. You first tenderize and then remove the protein from the bones. You could leave them whole as well if you’d prefer and do this step at the end.

This one is thicker like a pressure cooker stew but using ox instead of traditional pieces of stew meat. It’s pure comfort food with a tomato base. If you have your own favorite soup you could use that with this protein instead of another.

Ingredient Notes

You will want the main protein, oxtails, you’ll first follow our Instant Pot oxtail instructions to get them tender, then incorporate in with beef broth, potatoes, marsala wine, carrots, onion and tomato paste + preferred seasonings. If you wanted to make spicy oxtail soup use red pepper flakes or dry Sriracha

If you want to cook oxtails on the stove it would take hours and hours, this is much quicker. You can use the same pot to do all the things so why not??

You can leave pretty basic or use our oxtail seasonings to coat the outside for lots of flavor. I would suggest coating with all the things to make it out of control delicious.

Beef broth is the base for the liquid needed to steam the meat to fall off the bone and make the stew with some red wine as well as some rich tomato paste too.

How to Make it Spicy

Of course it can be slightly altered in respect to the heat levels. That is easy to adjust using some red pepper flakes, dry Sriracha or chili powder. You’ll need to leave about an hour and a half aside from start to finish.

How Long to Cook Oxtail Stew in Instant Pot

The total cook time is about 1 hour 15 minutes. There are two steps, the longest is cooking the meat so it becomes so tender it falls off the bone. Then when shredded off (or left whole) you then add vegetables to cook on the soup setting in order for those to get fork tender and then serve!

How Long to Cook Oxtail Stew with Frozen Oxtail

You can actually make this with frozen meat, you would just skip the saute step at the beginning. Other than that the cook time really wouldn’t change as long as they are medium sized. Under high pressure, as long as they are separated from one another, beef doesn’t change the timing at all surprisingly.

How to save leftovers

You always want to allow it to cool off first. Make sure meat is removed off of the bones first. Use a ladle at that time and transfer into a container with a lid on it. Store in the fridge for up to 3 days. This is how to freeze leftover soup if you’d prefer to do that or need to store it for longer than that time frame.

How to Reheat Leftovers

Always use a microwave safe bowl if you want to use the fastest method. Transfer in as much as you want and heat on 100% power for 1 minute, stir and then reset and continue heating in 30 second intervals stirring in between each one.