Best Instant Pot Stew Meat Recipes

Easy Instant Pot stew meat recipe you’ll love. Full of tender meat, potatoes, carrots and thick gravy it’s a low fat one pot tasty meal.

Instant Pot Stew Meat

You can find this bite size cut at any local grocery store. It may not be seen as the most desirable, but cooked right it can be fork tender and delicious.

We have a lot of it in our freezer since we buy bulk meat online, and from local farmers every year.

Instant Pot Beef Stew

You really can make a batch of pressure cooker stew with any type of protein. The best method is to use fresh or defrosted meat. If you have a forgetful moment though you can still make our frozen stew meat Instant Pot recipe.

I mean, you can even make Instant Pot chicken stew, or use that pork loin in a new way and make this pork stew Instant Pot recipe too.

BUT since we are focusing on cheap recipes lately, we will use beef stew meat as our focus today.

Instant Pot Stew

Here are a few questions you might have before you get going any further:

Sauteeing the meat and onions with a bit of olive oil at first is a good step, but not a must. If you take the extra few minutes to do this though it will trap the juices a bit better inside and add some outer texture as well.

I add onions to just about everything, but they could be omitted.

Instant Pot Beef Stew Recipe

Let’s talk potatoes shall we? Since we live in the “potato state” russets are super cheap and I always have some in my pantry. I do like red as well. They maintain their texture better for a longer period of cook time.

Depending on the recipe and what I have on hand I swap between the two. For dishes such as our Instant Pot potato corn chowder I use red for added texture.

The larger the pieces are the firmer they will be when done, but will still be soft. I don’t like mine to fall apart so this is how big I usually slice mine.

There is a wide variety of stews out there and by golly, use what you wish to get the best results for your tastebuds.

Stew Meat in Instant Pot

This is what was used for this batch of stew in the Instant Pot.

1. Cubed meat
   1. stew meat or cut chuck roast works great
2. Carrots and potatoes
3. Worcestershire sauce
4. Beef broth
5. Olive oil
6. Onion soup mix packet
7. Salt and pepper
8. Thyme and oregano
9. Bay leaf could be an optional add in

If you’d like to add 1/2 broth and 1/2 red wine for your total 32 ounces of needed liquid you could do that too.

Here’s a quick step by step but there’s also a printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Instant Pot Frozen Stew Meat

You will now have tender beef and vegetables in a thick broth to enjoy! You can try our slow cooker stew too and see which you prefer.

Instant Pot Stew Meat Recipes

We have several other meals you can use this protein in too like:

• Instant Pot beef stroganoff is comfort food in a bowl.
• I have made a pot full of pressure cooker pot pie soup as well.
• If you prefer rice over noodles, give our Instant Pot stew casserole a whirl.
• You could use it to make this butter beef dish as well if you wanted.