Ninja Foodi Stew

This is our easy pressure cooker Ninja Foodi stew with beef stew meat and frozen vegetables. You can make this with fresh or frozen stew meat in a rich gravy to serve as a one pot meal your family will love.

Ninja Foodi stew recipe is here! Ready for some ultimate comfort food full of tender beef and vegetables? Well this is it! It’s my husband’s favorite Ninja Foodi recipe for sure.

How Long to Cook Stew in Ninja Foodi

This is a 15 minute meal, can you believe it??!! Using high pressure it takes a fraction of time compared to a slow cooker or on the stove. This is one of our favorite things to make with fresh or frozen pressure cooker stew meat.

Ninja Foodi Stew with Frozen Stew Meat

In the case that your meat is still frozen you can still make this except you would need to skip step 1 for sauteing. When you add the meat with the gravy ingredients make sure that the pieces are broken apart and increase the cook time by 5 minutes.

Can you make stew with something other than beef?

If you want to use pork instead of beef, you can follow our pressure cooker pork stew recipe too. Any meat works. but beef stew meat is what most people would use to make this comfort food. An old fashioned dish that your grandmother probably made for you as a child.

It’s pretty amazing. You can cook an entire Ninja Foodi roast in about an hour and it falls apart with the poke of a fork. It is a game changer if you want to start eating together more often but don’t have time to baby a hunk of meat until it is ready to enjoy.

If you are new to cooking with this machine we will walk you thru it. You can use our free printable Ninja Foodi cooking times sheet to figure out how long other foods take to cook too.

Ingredient Notes

Ideally you will want to use fresh or defrosted stew meat that is large bite sized pieces. If you had steaks on hand or a roast you could just cut those up instead. Just make sure they are equal sized.

Onions should be diced or sliced, yellow white both work great in this. I also like to use frozen vegetables so they keep their shape and don’t get too soft.

• Brown gravy mix packets
• Beef stock or broth is best
• Olive oil to brown meat
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Occasionally I will add a pinch of garlic salt
  • a tbsp. of Worcestershire sauce is yummy too if I have it on hand

We love this over a soft bed of pressure cooker mashed potatoes. If you just like it warm in a bowl with a side of easy dinner rolls that is great too. Take your pick.

Do you need to brown meat before making stew?

You do want to brown in the first step by setting your Foodi to saute with olive oil and onions with stew meat that has been seasoned with salt and pepper. All you need to do is brown the outsides, not cook all the way thru. The reason for this is the browning will lock the juices inside and keep each piece as tender as possible.

We like to serve this over a bed of Ninja Foodi rice but you could eat just as is as a hearty meal for sure, the Old Fashioned way. 😉

How do you make stew thick?

In this case you are going to set pot to saute again. Whisk together remaining broth with your dry gravy packet, pour this into your pot. Allow to thicken, then sprinkle in 2nd gravy packet, stir, and thicken more. the longer it bubbles with heat the more dense it will become as water evaporates.

Variations

You can instead use 1/2 cup of red wine and 1/2 broth to give it a richer sauce. Add a cubed potato and follow the same cook time etc…. Save the recipe and let us know what you think.

FAQ

After you fall in love with this one then try Ninja Foodi pot roast with veggies. And we really love Pressure cooker stroganoff casserole. If you want to try something similar to this in the oven, try our easy beef stew casserole.