Key Takeaways:
- Quick & Easy: Instant Pot Pot Roast cuts down cooking time from hours to just over an hour, making it perfect for busy weeknights.
- Minimal Ingredients: With only 3 ingredients (pot roast, beef broth, and onion soup mix), this recipe is simple but full of flavor.
- Tender & Moist: Pressure cooking locks in moisture, ensuring the roast is tender and juicy every time.
- Leftovers: Great for sandwiches or quick lunches the next day.
- Versatile Meal: Pair with Sage Browned Butter Green Beans and Oven Roasted Potatoes for a complete, satisfying dinner.
- Rich Gravy: The leftover liquid makes a delicious gravy, and using a gravy separator helps remove excess fat for a cleaner, richer taste.
Overview
Instant Pot Pot Roast is the ultimate quick and comforting family dinner, perfect for chilly fall evenings when you need a hearty, flavorful meal fast. This simple 3-ingredient recipe uses an Instant Pot to transform a beef roast into tender, juicy perfection in just over an hour—no all-day cooking required. With savory onion soup mix, rich beef broth, and a quick sear, you’ll create a mouthwatering roast that fills the house with irresistible aroma. Serve with Sage Browned Butter Green Beans and Oven Roasted Potatoes for a complete dinner, and enjoy leftovers as delicious sandwiches the next day.
Instant Pot, Pot Roast is the perfect solution to – what’s for dinner Mom -questions from the kids. On a chilly fall evening, it is quick, easy, moist, tender, and delicious. It will warm up your brood from the inside out. Make plenty, though, because it is also great the next day as a sandwich or quick lunch. Also, check out my Chicken Pot Pie recipe.
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Back before Instant Pots, a great pot roast dinner took most of the day to properly cook. Along came Instant Pots – they are really just fancy pressure cookers – and a great pot roast can be ready for dinner in a little over an hour. Add some Sage Browned Butter Green Beans with Almonds and a few Oven Roasted Potatoes, and dinner is done. Let’s hear it for the Instant Pot.
Another SIS (Simple is Smart) Recipe for Pot Roast.
Why is this recipe so simple? Because it only has 3 ingredients and is cooked in the Instant Pot. Here is the SIS method!!!
Sear the pot roast on all sides in the instant pot. Add a quart of beef broth (homemade is best). If you just happened to run out of your delicious homemade broth, I won’t tell anyone you used purchased broth. In addition to the broth, you need one package of any variety, onion soup mix. Add the broth and soup mix to the meat in the Instant Pot. Put the cover on the Instant Pot and set the pressure to high. Pressure cook on high for 90 minutes, then quick-release the pressure.
Make a thick, rich, delicious gravy out of the liquid/broth from the pot. Be sure you use a gravy separator. The separator will let you easily get rid of the fat.
No need to announce it’s time for dinner with this meal. The kids will show up as soon as you release the pressure from the instant pot – sending that delicious aroma all through the house.
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FAQ:
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Pot Roast in the Instant Pot
Equipment
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Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 4 lb pot roast
- 3 cups high-quality beef stock.
- 1 pkg onion soup mix
- optional carrots or celery
Instructions
- Remove the excess fat from the roast. Season the roast with salt and pepper, and brown it on all sides in 1 tbsp of oil in the instant pot on saute.
- Add the beef broth and onion soup mix. Also, any (optional) vegetables you want.
- Turn the lid to lock, set the timer to 90 minutes, and turn the pressure valve to closed.
- Quick-release the pressure at the end of the 90 minutes.
- Remove the pot roast and carve. Use the liquid in the Instant Pot to make gravy for the pot roast. The onion soup mix adds salt to the broth so taste before adding salt.
