Easy pressure cooker Ninja Foodi stew with beef stew meat is a cheap dinner served with mashed potatoes. With beef tips, or this is how to cook frozen stew meat with a rich gravy and vegetables made as a one pot meal for dinner.
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. (affiliate links present)
Easy Ninja Foodi Beef Stew Recipe
Serve it over a bed of mashed potatoes or in a bowl with rolls on the side for dinner. It’s one of our favorite things to make with fresh or frozen pressure cooker stew meat.
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.
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Can I cook stew in Ninja Foodi?
Yes! We will show you how to do it with cut up roast, stew meat or beef tips. You could swap out other meats too though. Pork is another great option or large pieces of chicken thighs would work too.
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.
If you just like it warm in a bowl with a side of easy dinner rolls that is great too. Take your pick.
Ingredients
- Fresh or defrosted stew meat, if yours is still frozen decrease timing by 5 minutes, then throw in rest of ingredients and continue
- Onions diced or sliced
- Frozen peas and carrots
- 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
Of course we have a list of specific Foodi recipes to enjoy too, but add them all together and there are several hundred to keep you busy. Set your Foodi to saute and add your olive oil. Add in your diced onions and stew meat that has been seasoned with salt and pepper.
How to Pressure Cook Stew in Ninja Foodi
- Set to saute. Add the beef and cook until outside pieces are no longer pink and onions have softened. Turn your pot off now
- Pour in 1/2 c of your beef broth. Secure your pressure cooker lid (one not attached), and close the steam valve.
- Set to high pressure for 20 minutes followed by a quick release. Add frozen vegetables.
- The frozen peas and carrots get nice and tender with this flavorful gravy the tender stew meat is swimming in.
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.
It doesn’t work well on the Instant Pot or any other electric pressure cooker as far as I am concerned. Many others agree that it won’t replace your slow cooker, keep that. My guess is it isn’t the main function of multi cookers so it tends to run cooler than it should so food doesn’t get done.
You can reheat leftover stew in the microwave in about 1 minute. Heat for 30 seconds, stir, heat again and test. If you want it hotter, continue to do this rotation until it is perfect. On the stove put it into a pot over medium heat. Stir until it’s hot to your liking again.
If cooking fresh or reheating leftovers and you think your beef stew is too thick just slowly add a bit of broth, stirring over the heat source until it is the perfect consistency for you.
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.
- Then try Ninja Foodi pot roast with veggies
- Pressure cooker stroganoff casserole
- If you want to try something similar to this in the oven, try our easy beef stew casserole.
Ninja Foodi Stew
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker ninja foodi
Ingredients
- 2 lbs stew meat, diced small
- 1.5 c onion, diced
- 2 pkg. brown gravy mix, dry
- 1 c frozen peas and carrots
- 1 c beef broth, or water
- 1 tsp olive oil
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Set pot to saute and add olive oil. Season meat with salt and pepper and add in stew meat + onions, brown beef until no longer pink on the outside. Turn pot off.
- Add 1/2 c. of your broth. Put on pressure cooker lid and set to high pressure for 15 minutes followed by a quick release.
- Remove lid and add frozen peas and carrots. Stir and set to saute mode again.
- Whisk together in a bowl your remaining broth and 1 packet of dry gravy mix, add this into the pot and allow to bubble and thicken.
- Then I like it thicker so I add a 2nd packet of gravy mix. Stir this in allowing it to continue to thicken as much as you desire. Turn pot off and season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve over mashed potatoes or in a bowl with rolls on the side.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I was in a hurry and practically dumped the ingredients in the foodie. Happily, this turned out really good and I will definitely be making this again.
Oh good love that
I just wanted to thank you!! I have made a bunch of your recipes with my foodie ninja, in fact some recipes dozens of times. I have never been disappointed!! I really enjoyed this stew recipe, it made supper super quick and easy. Was delicious!
That means a lot thank you for the sweet note
First time I’ve used the sauté feature on the Foodi. Came out very good. I added fresh carrots and diced potatoes to the time in pressure cooker. Can’t believe I made stew in 1/2 hour instead of 8 hours. Will do it again. Thank you.
Glad you loved it too, we love this machine too
This looks so good. I just recently got my foodi so im new to all of it. I do not have frozen carrots. I do have fresh baby carrots though. Could i use those? If so when should i incorporate them? Thank you so much!
That would be fine, just add those instead
Hi, I have a rump roast, have you tried this as well as the stew meat?
You could use anything you’d just need to cut it into bite size pieces at the beginning so it can get tender quickly
Loved making this in our pressure cooker! So tasty and flavorful! Came out great!
Yay!!
Wow! So this can be in my belly in less than a 1/2 hour?! On my way to pick up a Ninja Foodi!!
can you make this with adding beef stew seasoning packet as well
I am sure that would work well
Great recipe! We enjoyed it over some yummy Jasmine Rice! ❤️🙂
Oh yeah!
Such a wonderful recipe.
Glad you loved it too