Make an easy Sunday dinner in your pressure cooker! Instant Pot Beef Tips with gravy are tender, delicious, and budget-friendly. Serve the meat and gravy over mashed potatoes, noodles, or rice.
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Why you’ll love this dish!
Beef tips, also called steak tips, are usually slow-simmered until tender and served in a flavorful brown gravy. Sounds like a delicious Sunday dinner, right? But wait! Cooking the beef tips in the Instant Pot, turns this dish into a quick and easy dinner option for any day of the week!
It’s one of the easiest dinner you can make in the pressure cooker: brown the meat, add liquid and seasoning and let it cook under pressure. Once done, thicken the gravy and you are done!
Ingredients:
- beef tips: tender cut of meat from sirloin or tenderloin;
- olive oil: for browning the meat;
- seasoning: salt, pepper, thyme and marjoram.
- cornstarch: to make the slurry for thickening the gravy;
- onion: adds flavor to the dish;
- Worcestershire sauce: just a couple of tablespoons add so much flavor to the gravy;
- beef stock: the flavorful base for the gravy.
How to make beef tips in the Instant Pot?
- Season meat with salt and pepper.
- Heat up olive oil in the Instant Pot, and brown beef tips.
- Remove meat from the pot and add a little bit of beef stock. Deglaze the bottom of the pot.
- Add beef stock, Worcestershire sauce, onion, seasoning and return the beef into the pot.
- Set the timer to 15 minutes. Once the cooking cycle is done, let the Instant Pot release the pressure naturally.
- Mix cornstarch with a little bit of beef stock, then add to the sauce in the pot. Simmer until thickens.
Helpful Tips!
- It is important to deglaze the bottom of the pot after browning the meat. This will prevent the burn message from appearing on your Instant Pot and not cooking properly.
- Store any leftovers in the fridge for up to 4 days. You can reheat them in the Instant Pot or in a small saucepan, on the stove top.
- Allow the Instant Pot to release the pressure naturally. That means you do not turn the know to venting, but rather let the pressure cooker release the pressure on its own. This will ensure that the meat is tender and not tough.
Recipe FAQs:
Beef tips, also called steak tips, usually come from sirloin or flap steak, cut into big chunks. They may look like stew meat, but they are not technicaly the same, although often used interchangeably.
That’s where the Instant Pot comes in. If you have experience cooking beef cuts in the pressure cooker, you know how tender and delicious the final result is. Beef tips cook fast and the hands-on time is minimal.
Everytime I make meat with gravy, I serve it with mashed potatoes. It’s my favorite combo. However, noodles, rice or mashed cauliflower for a keto-friendly diet, work great too!
Absolutely! Actually, I made it in my mini pressure cooker, the 3qt size. It’s perfect for it!
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Instant Pot Beef Tips
Make an easy Sunday dinner in your pressure cooker! Instant Pot Beef Tips with gravy are tender, delicious, and budget-friendly. Serve the meat and gravy over mashed potatoes, noodles, or rice.
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Instructions
Season beef with salt and pepper.
1 to 2 lbs beef tips, 1 ½ teaspoons kosher salt, ½ teaspoon black pepper
Make sure the stainless steel insert is in your Instant Pot. Press the saute setting and wait a few minutes till the pot heats up.
Add oil to the Instant Pot.
2 tablespoons olive oil
Add meat in batches and brown on all sides. Don’t cook all the way through, just brown. Remove meat onto a plate.
Add a splash of beef stock and deglaze the bottom of the pot by scraping any cooked on bits from the meat with a wooden spoon (don’t use silicone).
2 cups beef stock or broth
Add onion, dried herbs, remaining beef stock, Worcestershire sauce and return the beef into the pot.
1 small onion, 1 teaspoon dried thyme, 1 teaspoon dried marjoram, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Close the lid, set valve to sealing (newer modles do it on their own), press pressure cook and set timer to 15 minutes. The Instant Pot will start building up pressure.
Once the cooking cycle ends, press cancel/off button, but do not release the pressure. Let the Instant Pot release it naturally. This may take 12 to 15 minutes. It is important to do this.
Once the pressure pin drops, open the lid away from your face (there will be hot steam so be careful).
Remove the meat onto a plate. Mix cornstarch with room temperature beef stock or water and add to the sauce in the Instant Pot. Press saute setting and simmer the gravy until thickened.
4 tablespoons cornstarch, ¼ cup beef stock or water
Serve meat and gravy over mashed potatoes, rice or noodles.
Notes
- It is important to deglaze the bottom of the pot after browning the meat. This will prevent the burn message from appearing on your Instant Pot and not cooking properly.
- Store any leftovers in the fridge for up to 4 days. You can reheat them in the Instant Pot or in a small saucepan, on the stove top.
- Allow the Instant Pot to release the pressure naturally. That means you do not turn the know to venting, but rather let the pressure cooker release the pressure on its own. This will ensure that the meat is tender and not tough.
Nutrition
Calories: 282kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 70mg | Potassium: 689mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 17IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 3mg
