Instant Pot Beef Stew
INGREDIENTS
- Cooking Time: 30
- Servings: 6
- Preparation Time: 30
- 1 - 1 1/2 lb blade steak, chopped into 1" pieces and dredged in 1/4 cup flour
- 1-2 Tbsp Avocado or Olive oil
- 1 large can tomatoes whole or diced
- 1/2 cup beef stock or boiling water with 1 tsp better than bouillon
- 1 can or bottle of beer, I used a Coor's
- 1 large onion, (1/2 diced and 1/2 sliced)
- 1-2 potatoes, peeled and cut into large-ish chunks
- 2 stalks celery, sliced or diced to preference
- 2-3 carrots, sliced about 1/2" pieces
- 2-4 cloves of garlic or more, smashed & peeled
- 1 1/2 inch piece of fresh rosemary
- 1/4-1/2 tsp of thyme, fresh if you can get it
- salt & pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS
- Select Saute on instant pot and wait until it says HOT.
- Heat oil until just smoking.
- Add dredged and salted and peppered steak cubes to pot. Stir after a few mins and continue to brown meat.
- Add diced onion and saute with meat for a few min. Add garlic and stir for one min.
- Use hand blender and puree canned tomatoes very quickly leaving some bigger pieces. Add to instant pot along with beef stock and beer and rosemary & thyme & salt & pepper.
- Put lid on instant pot and select meat or steam setting and adjust for 20 min.
- When pot signals that it is done open steam arm and release steam until valve drops then remove lid.
- Add the potatoes, and remaining onion, celery, carrots and whatever else you want to pop in there. Like turnips!
- Put the lid back on the instant pot and set to steam for 1 min. Open steam release arm as soon as the minute is up.
- Set instant pot to Keep Warm and let simmer for 30-40 min to finish cooking the veggies. You can try increasing instant pot steam time but 3 min is too much. You could try two if you like, but I had better consistency using the one minute and then Keep Warm for 30-40 min.