Instant Pot Beef Tips

This Instant Pot beef tips and gravy recipe is the bomb! Tender sirloin or stew meat in your pressure cooker packed with flavor everyone will love. We have made this as Crockpot beef tips too but this way is a lot faster.

Let me tell you how amazing this Instant Pot beef tips and mushroom gravy turned out! Actually it is too hard to describe so you’ll just have to make it yourself. 😉 All of my Instant Pot recipes are easy and delicious.

Instant Pot Beef Tips and Gravy

I also focus on inexpensive meals so use either stew meat or sirloin (which is what I had on hand). Guaranteed, this will become a keeper. The positive reviews just keep on comin’ on this one!

You can make this in your IP, Crockpot Express or make as an easy Ninja Foodi recipe too. Any pressure cooker brand works that has a high pressure function.

Ninja Foodi Option

Using this pot you’re going to use the pressure cook function, you won’t need air crisp at all this time. More specifically you lift the lid that is attached and seal the one that isn’t once you add all the ingredients as directed below.

This recipe was created quite by accident actually. I wasn’t planning on creating a new pressure cooker beef recipe that day but once it was done I HAD to share it.

It was one of those “I need to cook this meat and the mushrooms only have one day left, so what can I do with these” nights. 😉 I am sure you’ve been there before. Let’s start with the steak in the Instant Pot I used.

As I’ve stated in the past we bought a cow from a local organic farmer and have a large freezer packed with all kinds of cuts. Before this I had only cooked “regular” things like steak. Buying in a large quantity like this gave me the opportunity to cook other things like chuck roast, stew meat, and all different roasts.

We don’t cook beef very often, with the exception of ground beef which I find super easy to use. If I use the other cuts it’s because they’re about to spoil or my husband has a craving for it.

You can see the pieces above. Occasionally I will slice them even smaller so they get even more tender while cooking, but as is this worked great. Beef stew meat comes out incredible as well and is quite inexpensive to buy at your local grocery store. Another perk to that is it is already cubed for you so it’s less prep work for you.

Sirloin steak was on the menu, and I couldn’t wait another day to use them up before they went bad. I have to be honest, if I’m going to make a new Instant Pot beef recipe I almost always dice it into bite size pieces before cooking it.

Smaller pieces makes it easier to eat, and comes out as tender as possible this way I feel. 

Ingredient Notes

1. Sirloin steak or beef stew meat is even easier since it is already cubed
2. Gravy packet – we used this one or you could follow this homemade gravy recipe here instead
3. Baby bella mushrooms are firmer than button so that is my preference
4. Onion can be diced or sliced, I choose yellow typically but white works
5. Olive oil or avocado oil is an alternative
6. Beef broth has a lot more flavor than water for the liquid necessary so I would go with that
7. Salt and pepper, a pinch should be added to season the meat
8. Worcestershire sauce will make the sauce bolder with deeper flavors
9. Garlic salt and garlic powder if you’re a big garlic lover

You will need a pressure cooker to make this, if you have an Instant Pot I HIGHLY suggest you get a nonstick pot. A wood spatula is handy to have to saute.

I serve it over a bed of wide egg noodles but Instant Pot white rice would be great too. They’re made separately but typically pressure cooked in my other electric pressure cooker.

Why do I use packaged gravy? Well, because I am all about easy and this is ready to use, just rip the end off and pour it right in. It lends a TON of flavor to the dish but more importantly it thickens the sauce up tremendously.

There was a night I didn’t have this on hand so I made it as is without the brown gravy packet and it wasn’t nearly as good. I tried to save it with some sour cream I had on hand but the thickness wasn’t there.

Does Instant Pot make meat tender?

Meats in a pressure cooker become quite tender no matter what cut it is. How tender depends on several factors: Some cuts are tender to begin with and have little or no chewy connective tissues. A pressure cooker can essentially melt the connective tissues much more quickly than a slow cooker or oven/stovetop can.

What are sirloin tips?

This cut is found on the front end of the rear leg. This area is usually created into chuck roasts, but can also be cut into steaks or used for ground beef. Stew meat can also be used and typically is a lesser expensive choice between the two, I prefer sirloin if I have it.

What makes this recipe SO good though is the gravy. It. Is. Amazing! It is a bit like the taste in Instant Pot beef stroganoff but there’s more of it and it has a stronger, richer flavor. In that one I used cream of mushroom soup, however this one is more homemade than that.

Remember, the longer this sits and cools the thicker it will become. Serve over Instant Pot brown rice, rice, egg noodles, or pressure cooker mashed potatoes.

What is the difference between white and baby bella mushrooms?

Baby bella and white button are both strains of Agaricus bisporus, but these 2 mushrooms look and taste very different. White buttons are harvested at an immature stage, while baby bellas are harvested an intermediate stage of maturity. Portabella mushrooms are fully mature baby bellas. The color is the obvious difference, the firmness to me is the most important. You don’t want something that will disintegrate while cooking.

Other Beef Tips recipes in Pressure Cooker you’ll Love

Our Instant Pot beef stew casserole is incredible. Pressure cooker shredded beef is perfect on small rolls served as sliders. Instant Pot beef and broccoli recipe served with rice is over the top. As well as a great Ninja Foodi stew recipe.