Ninja Foodi stew is a hearty beef dinner with mashed potatoes. Comfort food on a plate all cooked in your pressure cooker and air fryer appliance.

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.
Ninja Foodi Beef Stew
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 pressure cooker stew meat recipes.
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 and now you crave it again as an adult right?
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If you need to know how to cook frozen meat in a pressure cooker, we have information on that. NO, you aren’t the only forgetful one. 😉

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.
Want to make spaghetti and melt cheese right on the top?
NO problem with their crisp lid! This thing can do everything (except my laundry) I’m telling you.

We love this over a soft bed of Ninja Foodi mashed potatoes, but you could use Ninja Foodi rice too. If you just like it warm in a bowl with a side of easy dinner rolls that is great too. Take your pick.
Ninja Foodi stew
- Fresh or defrosted stew meat or beef tips
- if yours is still frozen this is how to cook frozen stew meat
- decrease timing by 5 minutes, then throw in rest of ingredients and continue
- Onion
- Frozen peas and carrots
- Brown gravy mix packets
- Beef broth
- Olive oil
- 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
If you have another brand of pressure cooker you can follow the same instructions below. This and all Instant Pot recipes are interchangeable if you weren’t aware already.

Of course we have a list of specific Ninja Foodi recipes to enjoy too, but add them all together and there are several hundred to keep you busy.
Here are the basic steps to follow:
Time needed: 20 minutes
Ninja Foodi Beef Stew
- Saute
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
Cook until outside pieces are no longer pink and onions have softened. Turn your pot off now - Cook
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. - Saute
Set pot to saute again. Whisk together remaining broth with gravy packet, add this into your pot. Serve and enjoy.
Allow to thicken, then sprinkle in 2nd gravy packet, stir, and thicken more. Then serve.

Pressure cooker beef stew
The frozen peas and carrots get nice and tender with this flavorful gravy the tender stew meat is swimming in.
I think you could easily add some diced potatoes in at the beginning if you wanted to. I might try that the next go around.
- If you only have the Ninja Foodi grill you won’t be able to make this in that. It doesn’t include the pressure cooking function. It does make a killer steak though.

More easy Ninja Foodi recipes to try next!
- Cheesy Ninja Foodi spaghetti recipes uses both functions and is fabulous
- Then try Ninja Foodi pot roast with veggies
- Pressure cooker stroganoff casserole
- Ninja Foodi chicken recipe is great as well as Ninja Foodi pot roast
- Use our free printable Ninja Foodi cooking times sheet to figure out how long other foods take to cook.
If you want to try something similar to this in the oven, try our easy beef stew casserole.
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Ninja Foodi Stew
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.
Cheryl
Monday 3rd of April 2023
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.
The Typical Mom
Tuesday 4th of April 2023
Oh good love that
K
Wednesday 30th of November 2022
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!
The Typical Mom
Thursday 1st of December 2022
That means a lot thank you for the sweet note
Lynn
Saturday 5th of March 2022
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.
The Typical Mom
Monday 7th of March 2022
Glad you loved it too, we love this machine too
Kay P
Friday 26th of February 2021
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!
The Typical Mom
Friday 26th of February 2021
That would be fine, just add those instead
Susan
Wednesday 10th of February 2021
Hi, I have a rump roast, have you tried this as well as the stew meat?
The Typical Mom
Wednesday 10th of February 2021
You could use anything you'd just need to cut it into bite size pieces at the beginning so it can get tender quickly