Pressure Cooker Beef Stew

Fast, tasty, EASY and so delicious! Nothing is better on a cold rainy day than pressure cooker beef stew! Tastes like Mama’s been cooking and stirring the pot all day (I won’t tell anyone, it’s our secret, ok?) <wink>.

Electric Pressure Cooker or Stove Top Pressure Cooker Beef Stew

Either way, you are set! Perhaps you prefer the Instantpot to the stove top pressure cooker? Either one will make this pressure cooker beef stew in a glorious few minutes.

This is my classic old fashioned beef stew recipe revved up for today’s fast pressure cooking crew.

Hands down favorite beefy stew recipe in my family and you don’t have to wait a minute longer OR stand around cooking all day to get it, either.

We also love our new McCormick Beef Stew, if you want to check that out!

Here’s What You’ll Need

• Stew Beef
• Sugar
• Carrots
• Celery
• Onion
• Garlic Powder
• Onion Powder
• Salt/Pepper
• Paprika
• Bay leaves
• Turmeric
• Worcestershire sauce

Here’s How It’s Done

• Cut your stew beef into bite size pieces.
• Add everything to the pressure cooker
• Cook on full pressure for 15 minutes.
• Allow a natural release of the pressure.
• Hollar for everyone to come to the table!

What To Serve with Beef Stew

There are so many options for what to serve with beef stew. Of course, classic grilled cheese is an option, baked potatoes, rice or one of our favorites is Mexican Cornbread.

Frequently Asked Questions

Pressure Cooker Beef Stew With Tomatoes

If you love to have tomatoes in your beef stew, that’s easy to do with this recipe.

For garden fresh tomatoes:

• Remove the peel and core from the tomatoes (you’ll want to use 2-4 fist sized tomatoes)
• Cut into 4ths and add to the pressure cooker. This will make a nice base for the beef stew.

For Canned Tomatoes:

• Add a 15.5oz can of diced or stewed tomatoes to the pressure cooker.

Pressure Cooker Beef Stew with Dumplings

If beef stew with dumplings is your jam, that’s an easy one!

Just zoom on over to the Chicken and Dumplings post, whip up some dumplings and add them to the stew once it has finished cooking in the pressure cooker.

You’ll need to put them into a stockpot on the stove top, set the heat on medium and bring to a simmer.

Add the dumplings and spoon the stew over the dumplings until the dumplings are cooked through.

Pressure Cooker Beef Stew With Red Wine

If you enjoy a bit of red wine flavor in your beef stew, you’ll want to add 1/2 cup into your pressure cooker instead of water.

Choose any red wine that you would drink.

Tips and Tricks

• You can start with frozen stew beef as long as you give it a few minutes longer, if you watch the video, you’ll see that’s what I do.
• Cut the beef into bite sized pieces (about 1″ cubes).
• The secret to tender beef stew is cooking it a LONG time (if cooking on the stove top and really 25 minutes in a pressure cooker is a long time!). If your stew beef is too hard to chew, it’s because it didn’t cook long enough. Stew beef tends to have a lot of connective tissue and that takes a long long time to break down (which is just a few more minutes in the pressure cooker than something like chicken).
• Add peeled potatoes cut into 1- 11/2 inch cubes if you prefer.
• People often say, “I don’t like celery” or “I don’t like carrots”. Actually, those just add some flavor and because they get quite soft, you don’t really taste them individually. That said, the flavors they add to the beef are really on point. For the most part, the carrots and celery break down completely and you barely see them in the stew.
• Add a 15 oz can of diced tomatoes instead of water if you prefer a tomato based beef stew.
• You’ll give a nice pop of flavor if you serve up some cheese, sour cream, green onion and a bit of shredded cheddar with your beef stew.

Substitutions

• You can substitute Pork Shoulder for the Beef if you like, but then, of course, it isn’t beef stew.
• 1 chopped whole onion for the onion powder
• 3 cloves minced garlic for the garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp celery seed for the celery

Power Move

PRO TIP: This stew is exceptional served over rice or a baked potato!

If you Enjoyed This Beef Stew Recipe, You Might Also Enjoy

• Classic Beef Stew
• How to Freeze Beef

Watch Pressure Cooker Beef Stew

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A Verse to Share

In my life time, I’ve often heard the quote of “enter by the narrow gate” in relation to living a pious life. I’m positive God wants us to live in a way that honors him.

Have you ever read the verses just before the “narrow gate” passage?

They are…

1. Don’t judge others, get the log out of your own eye before you talk about the spec in someone elses.
2. Don’t cast your pearls before swine.
3. Ask and you shall receive, your Father in heaven gives good gifts.

Then we find Matthew 7:13

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 

Followed by…

1. Avoid false prophets, you will know them by their fruit. If they haven’t and don’t bear good fruit, they aren’t a good tree.
2. Not everyone who cries out “Lord Lord” will see heaven.
3. Hear the words and put them into practice like the wise man who built his house upon a rock.

Pretty interesting reading when taken as a whole, if you ask me.