Easy Instant Pot Taco Soup Recipe

This easy Instant Pot taco soup recipe is perfect year round and packed with flavor. Just 6 minutes in your pressure cooker topped with sour cream and a side of chips or a roll and it’s the perfect family meal! Need a warm soup during the Winter or just love anything tacos, give this a whirl.

Instant Pot Taco Soup Frozen Beef

It is so easy to throw together which is one reason I love it, and it is packed with tons of flavor. It’s one of those comfort food recipes that you can make quickly and keep all the ingredients on hand in your pantry for when you only have less than 30 minutes to cook an entire meal and eat it!

You can use beef or ground sausage for meat, unless making it vegetarian. Forgot to defrost? You can follow our Instant Pot frozen ground beef instructions first and then go from there. The rest are canned pantry items so it is beyond easy.

Ninja Foodi Taco Soup

There are a bunch of ingredients. Some you can omit if you don’t care for it or would rather go meatless. This can be made as a vegetarian taco soup too! We don’t add any heat to our version but can easily be done. Use some scoop tortilla chips as a side and the kids will really love it.

• Add a bit of chili powder if you want to heat it up to your liking. But without it’s just as good.

It’s like a deconstructed taco with some tasty broth and perfect year round.

6 can Instant Pot Taco Soup

If you are a busy family like us and don’t have an Instant Pot I highly recommend it. It’s made our lives so much easier and made it possible for us to sit down as a family to eat together more often.  There are other brands too you can use that work the same. Ninja Foodi and Crockpot Express are two others.

Everything gets done so extremely fast! 

I use the pressure cooker and saute functions the most, like for this soup. I have created a lot of easy Instant Pot recipes you can try as well as this one. Don’t be intimidated, it’s really easy to use! If you’re looking for more easy recipes like this check out my Instant Pot Cookbook. 😉

Instant Pot Taco Soup No Beans

You could leave these out but it is much heartier if you have a few different varieties. If you only like white like Northern beans then just use those alone. I literally add onions to just about everything I make in this pot or my Ninja Foodi.

1. Ground beef and onions
2. Kidney beans
3. Pinto beans
   1. or black beans rinsed and drained
4. Corn
5. Stewed tomatoes
6. Diced tomatoes
7. Olives
8. Taco & Ranch seasoning
   1. I mean really any seasons can be added that your family loves, onion powder is good too
9. Tomato sauce

Diced green chiles are optional but I like a can of mild for extra flavor. If you wanted to add heat to make this spicy it is quite easy. I would start light handed at first until you figure out how much you want to add. Start with 1/8 tsp of red pepper flakes. You could dice up jalapenos too which is great or chili powder.

Chicken Taco Soup

You could easily swap out the meat for poultry instead. If you have leftover chicken that is precooked then you are ready to go and don’t have to saute it first. You could use white or dark meat from thighs or breasts, whatever works. I like to dice it up into small bite size pieces so it is easier to eat when done.

1. Put your Instant Pot on saute and start to brown your ground beef.
   Add your olive oil, onions, taco seasoning, powdered ranch dressing mix, to your ground beef. 
2. Continue to brown until no pink remains and onions have become a bit softened. 
3. Drain both cans of beans and add into your IP with all other ingredients except the sour cream.  Stir together. 
4. Put lid on IP and cook on high pressure cook, for 6 minutes cook time (can do longer if you want beans to be really soft – up to 10 min). 

Close steam valve. Keep in mind it may take up to 15 minutes to reach pressure when you’re planning your prep time. When done carefully do a slow or quick release release on steam valve and then carefully lift lid.  Looking for more easy Instant Pot soup recipes?

• Instant Pot lasagna soup is another favorite, a deconstruction version of a favorite dish.
• Our Instant Pot taco casserole adds noodles and a creamy sauce together. If you like to rotate meals for taco Tuesdays this should be on your rotation.
• Creamy Instant Pot potato corn chowder is a great meal with canned corn too.
• Healthy Instant Pot chicken noodle soup is perfect when you’re feeling under the weather, or year round.