Beef Ninja Foodi Stew

Ninja Foodi stew recipe is here! Ready for some ultimate comfort food full of tender beef and vegetables? Well this is it! It’s my husband’s favorite Ninja Foodi recipe for sure.

How Long to Cook Stew in Ninja Foodi

This is a 15 minute meal, can you believe it??!! Using high pressure it takes a fraction of time compared to a slow cooker or on the stove. This is one of our favorite things to make with fresh or frozen pressure cooker stew meat.

Ninja Foodi Stew with Frozen Beef

In the case that your meat is still frozen you can still make this except you would need to skip step 1 for sauteing. When you add the meat with the gravy ingredients make sure that the pieces are broken apart and increase the cook time by 5 minutes.

Can you make stew with something other than beef?

If you want to use pork instead of beef, you can follow our pressure cooker pork stew recipe too. Any meat works. but beef stew meat is what most people would use to make this comfort food. An old fashioned dish that your grandmother probably made for you as a child.

It’s pretty amazing. You can cook an entire Ninja Foodi roast in about an hour and it falls apart with the poke of a fork. It is a game changer if you want to start eating together more often but don’t have time to baby a hunk of meat until it is ready to enjoy.

If you are new to cooking with this machine we will walk you thru it. You can use our free printable Ninja Foodi cooking times sheet to figure out how long other foods take to cook too.

Ingredient Notes

Ideally you will want to use fresh or defrosted stew meat that is large bite sized pieces. If you had steaks on hand or a roast you could just cut those up instead. Just make sure they are equal sized.

Do you need to brown meat first?

Yes it is best to brown meat on saute function with some olive oil to lock in the moisture to make them as tender as possible.

Onions should be diced or sliced, yellow white both work great in this. I also like to use frozen vegetables so they keep their shape and don’t get too soft.

You will use dry Brown gravy mix packets that will thicken the liquid in the pot. If you didn’t want to do this you could whisk in some cornstarch at the end set to the saute function but this goes it more flavor.

You are goingt o want some liquid to cook the meat to tender and make the sauce aswell, Beef stock or broth is best vs. water which doesn’t offer any flavor.

Variations

You can instead use 1/2 cup of red wine and 1/2 broth to give it a richer sauce. Add a cubed potato and follow the same cook time etc…. Save the recipe and let us know what you think.

We love this over a soft bed of pressure cooker mashed potatoes or over a bed of Ninja Foodi rice but you could eat just as is as a hearty meal for sure, the Old Fashioned way. 😉 If you just like it warm in a bowl with a side of easy dinner rolls that is great too. Take your pick.

How to Make Stew Thicker

In this case you are going to set pot to saute again. Whisk together remaining broth with your dry gravy packet, pour this into your pot. Allow to thicken, then sprinkle in 2nd gravy packet, stir, and thicken more. the longer it bubbles with heat the more dense it will become as water evaporates.

FAQ

It doesn’t work well on the Instant Pot or any other electric pressure cooker as far as I am concerned. Many others agree that it won’t replace your slow cooker, keep that. My guess is it isn’t the main function of multi cookers so it tends to run cooler than it should so food doesn’t get done.

You can reheat leftover stew in the microwave in about 1 minute. Heat for 30 seconds, stir, heat again and test. If you want it hotter, continue to do this rotation until it is perfect. On the stove put it into a pot over medium heat. Stir until it’s hot to your liking again.

If cooking fresh or reheating leftovers and you think your beef stew is too thick just slowly add a bit of broth, stirring over the heat source until it is the perfect consistency for you.

After you fall in love with this one then try Ninja Foodi pot roast with veggies. And we really love Pressure cooker stroganoff casserole. If you want to try something similar to this in the oven, try our easy beef stew casserole.