Instant Pot vegetable beef soup with potatoes is a great recipe that’s healthy! It costs less than $20 for the whole meal which feeds all five of us. Done in just 20 minutes, it’s an easy Ninja Foodi ground beef dinner served as is or with side of bread. Similar to pressure cooker beef pot pie soup.
Instant Pot vegetable beef soup is our latest creation. Cheap yet full of protein it is a favorite amongst my family members. An easy Instant Pot recipe you too should try sometime soon. (affiliate links present)
Ninja Foodi Vegetable Beef Soup
You can use any type of electric pressure cooker to make this. We have a Crockpot Express, Mealthy and Ninja Foodi as well. You can saute and brown the meat to begin with, then add the rest of the ingredients. The best way to make a one pot meal with easy cleanup.
If you are new to this way of cooking you’re in for a real treat. You can make something that would normally take hours on the stovetop to get tender, under 45 flat.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
Ninja Foodi Ground Beef Soup Ingredients
- Diced tomatoes – I like this can of petite diced
- Chicken broth – really your preference, if making pressure cooker vegetarian soup then use vegetable broth or pressure cooker bone broth
- Potatoes diced into large bite size chunks
- Carrots should be peeled and sliced into thicker dials
- Celery is optional but nice diced
- Onions go in everything for flavor
- Ground beef – can leave out if you want Instant Pot vegetarian soup
- Green beans we added were fresh
- You could even chop up 1/4 of a cabbage and throw that in
- Spices
Let us know how you “tweak” this for your family. I make this with fresh vegetables but frozen veggies would work. 😉 They will have a different texture though, a bit mushier. I used what looked fresh and wasn’t expensive at the store. Literally the entire meal including the garlic rolls was about $20. It fed all 5 of us with lunch for 2 left over for the next day, I call that a major win!
I will say it took a while to get our kids to eat and really love vegetables but now they’d prefer them over a steak any day. This easy Instant Pot recipe is great for lunch, dinner, or even a potluck. If you don’t have this amazing appliance yet you can find the Instant Pot I use here. You won’t regret buying it I promise!
You could use canned vegetables if you wanted to. Just note that they will soften quite a bit and the texture won’t be as appealing.
How to Make Instant Pot Vegetable Ground Beef Soup with Potatoes
- Chop all your veggies
- Put your Instant Pot using the saute function
- Cook your ground beef until it is no longer pink on the outside, remember it will continue cooking in a bit
- Add your onions and garlic until the meat is cooked
- Then add your vegetables now
- A can of diced tomatoes if you like, optional
- Your choice of broth goes in now, I like beef but could use another
- Push the soup button, or high pressure if you don’t have this
- If you like your veggies really soft leave it as is which will cook for 20 minutes.
- This is how my kids like it. I prefer a bit more al dente and 10 minutes is perfect for me.
That depends on the texture you desire. If you are adding fresh produce I would choose things like carrots, celery, carrots and fresh green beans as those will stay in tact better under high pressure. More delicate choices like broccoli and cabbage cook very quickly, 1-2 minutes and will fall apart in a pressure cooker soup. Frozen mixed vegetables with peas, carrots and corn work best in that case.
With stew meat
You could opt to make our Instant Pot stew meat with potatoes option instead of ground beef but with that tougher meat I would recommend dicing the pieces up rather small.
Slow cooker directions
If you’d like softer vegetables allow pot to natural release for 3 minutes vs. a quick release noted. Then remove the lid and serve immediately for best results. We have a crockpot vegetable beef soup version here too.
Vegetarian option
- Omit the ground beef or meat entirely
- Substitute the beef/chicken broth for vegetable broth instead
- You could add tofu blocks at the end. When the soup is done remove lid and set to saute. Add this into the hot broth and allow to bubble for 1-2 minutes until warmed and serve.
What to Serve with Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup
This easily made vegetarian if you wish. We’ve added some shaved parmesan cheese to the top once served. This is a really a good addition to the meal. Serve our 3 ingredient beer bread and it’s the perfect meal! Or serve with a side of air fryer pull apart bread, we were set for the evening.
Other easy pressure cooker soup recipes you’ll love
- You’ll love our Instant Pot minestrone soup and Instant Pot hamburger soup with potatoes too!
- If you’re looking for a vegetarian Instant Pot soup recipes you can alter this one and many others to create a meatless version. A few ideas to do just that would be to;
- Instant Pot chicken noodle soup is a given for yum
- Our pressure cooker barley soup is fantastic. Low in calories you don’t really need much seasonings as the ham does it for you.
Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 2 cans petite diced tomatoes
- 32-48 oz beef broth, or vegetable or chicken broth
- 1 russet potato , diced
- 1-2 carrots , sliced
- 2 stalks celery , sliced
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 1 lb ground beef, spicy ground sausage, or ground turkey
- 2 c green beans, fresh, cut into 1" pieces
- 1 tsp salt, more or less depending on preference
- Pinch of oregano
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Set pressure cooker to saute and add ground beef, olive oil, garlic, and onions. Cook until pink on meat is almost gone. Turn off pot.
- Add all other ingredients on top and stir.
- Push soup button and set for 10 minutes.
- When it beeps do a quick release.
- Carefully lift the lid and serve! Add a sprinkle of shaved parmesan cheese on top, optional but great.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Delicious, this is the 1st time in my life that I loved my Vegetable soup. Will make this again and again.
Yay!!!
If you don’t mind me asking, what are the size of your cans of tomatoes? It just says two, but two of what? Thanks!
Regular 14.5 sizes.
Can I use frozen green beans instead of fresh?
My husband prefers beef stew meat to hambuger in his vegetable beef soup? Would I have to change the cooking time if I used stew meat? Also you used chicken broth instead of beef broth, is that correct?
You could use either type of broth. I am not sure of the cooking time for stew meat vs. hamburger but it would be a bit longer depending on how tender he likes it.
I just made this recipe using a pound of stew meat cut into bite size portions and it turned out great. Sauted it with onions and garlic to start.
Awesome!
My maiden voyage with my Instant Pot. This soup is delicious! Will definitely be making this many times in the years to come. Thanks for the recipe.
Oh good!!
I only have the smallest pot….do I cut recipe in half?
Love one pot meal! So easy!