This is our easy Instant Pot hamburger soup with potatoes, frozen vegetables and tomatoes! A healthy protein packed pressure cooker soup with ground beef we love! Make spicy with sausage in Ninja Foodi pressure cooker for a simple one pot meal.
If you have a block of ground beef at home you should try hamburger soup tonight! Packed with tomatoes, peas and carrots too it’s become a new favorite easy Instant Pot recipe at our house.
Ok so of course there are many tweaks you can make to this one which I love. Jimmy Dean spicy ground sausage is a great option we love if we are in the mood for some heat! As far as vegetables go we love carrots, peas and diced tomatoes but you could go well beyond that. Use fresh, canned or frozen is best.
You don’t have to include Instant Pot potatoes if for some reason you don’t want the extra starch but they do make it a heartier dish. The brand on the machine doesn’t matter either.
Ninja Foodi Hamburger Soup
This makes a great Ninja Foodi recipe too. The only difference with this pot is to know which lid you need. To pressure cook you would use the one that is not attached. In this case, at the end, if you wanted to melt and brown a layer of cheese on the top you could do so with the lid that is attached as well.
Can you put raw ground beef in soup?
No, you’re going to need to precook it beforehand. That is what’s great about pressure cooker recipes in general. Use one pot to brown and pressure cook. We are only going to use the first two functions to make this potato soup, same as with our Instant Pot sausage soup.
Variations
If you wanted to use a grain instead or in addition to the others you totally can. I would use the timing from our Instant Pot barley soup recipe for that. I have used that many times with different meats, leftover ham works well for that one too.
Substitutions
You really can tweak it to your liking. Want a thicker base? Decrease the amount of broth or stock and instead use some tomato sauce. I have even used spaghetti sauce at times to really amp up the flavor, and that is what I had on hand.
For more bold flavors, throw in a tablespoon or two of Worcestershire sauce too! I always say you should cook to your liking AND use what you have on hand. If you have red potatoes that need to be cooked, then use those instead of russets.
Hamburger Soup with Frozen Ground Beef
If you need instructions on how to cook Instant Pot frozen ground beef to begin with we have that too! Once that is thawed you just chop that up into small pieces and then continue on with the rest of the steps below. Easy peasy.
It actually works quite well if your meat is frozen solid to begin with. You can easily defrost it in about 15 minutes and then proceed as usual with step 1 below. Same goes with a roll of Jimmy Dean spicy sausage and it is incredible!!
This is one of our favorite cheap Instant Pot recipes here on The Typical Mom blog. We’ve made another cheesy Instant Pot hamburger casserole as well you should try.
Instant Pot Hamburger Soup Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef, or ground sausage
- 1 small onion, diced
- 5 medium potatoes, diced
- 10 oz Rotel
- 16 oz frozen vegetables, carrots and peas
- 4 cup beef broth
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
Instructions
- Set pot to saute with a tbsp of olive oil, ground beef and diced onions. Cook until meat is no longer pink, then turn pot off.
- Deglaze pot with bit of broth to get stuck on meat off the bottom. Add in remaining ingredients and stir.
- Close lid and steam valve and set on high pressure for 6 minutes.
- Do a quick release, lift lid, stir, and serve with parmesan cheese on top.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Do you drain the beef after cooking?
That is up to you
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