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Are you looking for a Make Ahead Ground Beef Recipe for your electric pressure cooker? This Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipe cooks ground beef in bulk to freeze to make weeknight meal time a snap to throw together. We use this recipe regularly for batch cooking as an essential part of our low carb diet.
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How to Batch Cook Ground Beef in an Electric Pressure Cooker
Cris here.
We love our Crock Pot Make Ahead Ground Beef and our Electric Pressure Cooker Taco Meat around here. They are such time savers when it comes to throwing together soups and casseroles. I love cooking my ground beef in bulk and freezing for quick meal prep!
Since I love this kitchen time saver, I have been wanting to tweak our Make Ahead Ground Beef recipe to make it in our electric pressure cookers (Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi and Crock Pot Express). I also have been wanting to make it lower in carbs for quick low carb meal prep. So I simplified the original recipe and now we can batch cook 4 lbs of ground beef in a matter of minutes!
Notes on Instant Pot Ground Beef Batch Cooking
- This recipe can be made in any 6 quart electric pressure cooker including: Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi and Crock Pot Express.If you are using an 8 quart electric pressure cooker, you may need to add an additional 1/2 cup of broth to reach pressure.
- You can find more electric pressure cooker recipes here: Electric Pressure Cooker Recipes
- If you would prefer to use a slow cooker, you can use our Crock Pot Make Ahead Ground Beef Recipe instead.
- The fat content of your ground beef will impact the amount of meat after cooking. Higher fat contents will produce less ground beef than leaner varieties, just like when you brown ground beef in a skillet.
- We have used both fresh onion and dried minced onion in this recipe before with success. Desired amounts are a matter of taste (and dietary needs).
- Readers often ask what tool we use to break up our ground beef in the videos. We like to use our Zing Ground Beef Chopper. It is our favorite one of all that we have tested.
- You can find more low carb recipes in ourLow Carb Recipe Librarythat we update weekly.
- Looking for more recipes? OurRecipe Findercan help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in ourAmazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts andnutritionalinformation varies greatly. As a result, yournutritionalcontent depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Instant Pot Ground Beef (Batch Cooking) Recipe
Instant Pot Ground Beef (Batch Cooking)
Are you looking for a Make Ahead Ground Beef Recipe for your electric pressure cooker? This Instant Pot Ground Beef Recipe cooks ground beef in bulk to freeze to make weeknight meal time a snap to throw together. We use this recipe regularly for batch cooking as an essential part of our low carb diet.
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Course: Main Dish
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Batch Cooking, Electric Pressure Cooker, Instant Pot Ground Beef, Make Ahead Ground Beef
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 16 servings (4 - 1lb bags)
Calories: 160kcal
Author: Cris
Ingredients
- 4 lbs ground beef uncooked
- 1 cup beef broth
- 2 tablespoon minced garlic
- 2 tablespoon minced dry onion
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Place ground beef down in the bottom of a 6 quart electric pressure cooker and add all ingredients.
Briefly run a wooden spoon or ground beef chopper through the meat to break it up a little.
Place under high pressure for 5 minutes and then quick release.
Break ground beef up again and then place under high pressure for 10 more minutes.
Quick release and drain liquid off of meat using a colander.
Cool meat on a cookie sheet or large casserole pan until it reaches room temperature.
Divide into four equal portions and bag in quart size freezer bags, pressing all air our of bags while zipping.
If desired: Flatten bags and flash freeze on cookie sheet for a few hours until firm and then stack all four bags flat inside a gallon bag to save freezer space.
To reheat, just remove from freezer and run bag under hot water for a minute or two to break meat apart. Toss frozen meat in a skillet to reheat quickly or directly into crock pot recipes and soups.
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Notes
- This recipe can be made in any 6 quart electric pressure cooker including: Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi and Crock Pot Express.If you are using an 8 quart electric pressure cooker, you may need to add an additional 1/2 cup of broth to reach pressure.
- You can find more electric pressure cooker recipes here: Electric Pressure Cooker Recipes
- If you would prefer to use a slow cooker, you can use our Crock Pot Make Ahead Ground Beef Recipe instead.
- The fat content of your ground beef will impact the amount of meat after cooking. Higher fat contents will produce less ground beef than leaner varieties, just like when you brown ground beef in a skillet.
- We have used both fresh onion and dried minced onion in this recipe before with success. Desired amounts are a matter of taste (and dietary needs).
- Readers often ask what tool we use to break up our ground beef in the videos. We like to use our Zing Ground Beef Chopper. It is our favorite one of all that we have tested.
- You can find more low carb recipes in ourLow Carb Recipe Librarythat we update weekly.
- Looking for more recipes? OurRecipe Findercan help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in ourAmazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts andnutritionalinformation varies greatly. As a result, yournutritionalcontent depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 70mg | Sodium: 131mg | Potassium: 415mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin C: 0.7mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 2.7mg
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Sara says Hello! I need to regularly cook 12-13 pounds of ground turkey at a time and just got an instant pot (6 quart). What is the maximum pounds of meat I can cook at once? And what is the liquid to meat ratio? Also do cook times change if it’s turkey?
Thank you so much!!
SaraReply
- April says
Hi, how would you change the directions if the meat is frozen?
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- Cris says
Hi April-
I would do 25 minutes under high pressure, quick release to break up and then do another 10 minutes under high pressure with a natural release of 15 min. Hope that helps!
- Toni says
This saves me so much work. Thanks for this receipe.
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- Cris says
Hi Toni-
I am so glad you found the recipe helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to drop by and let us know.
- Dawn says
Great video, so helpful! I am cooking 25#s of ground beef for a graduation party taco bar and using this method, 5#a at a time. Meat is so tender compared to sautéing it! 👍🏻 And I can do other things while it pressure cooks. Thank you!!Reply
- Cris says
So glad you found it helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and let us know!
- Kim L Honeycutt says
I watched the video with you and Mikey. Y’all are so cute and work well together!! This is a great way to have ground beef cooked up and ready to use. I think it thaws quickly when packaged flat like that. I love your family Cris….you always make me smile or laugh!❤😊😂Reply
- Cris says
You are so right about it thawing quicker! I hadn’t even thought of that but it is true.
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