Creamy Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff. Fall-apart tender beef in the most flavorful sauce! The sauteed beef is smothered in a creamy, sour cream mushroom sauce, cooked in a pressure cooker.
This Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff is so tender and the sauce is packed with flavor. This one-pot creamy meal is perfect for any weeknight, and goes perfectly over a bowl of egg noodles!
Beef Stroganoff is a Russian dish of sauteed beef in a sauce. It has become popular in many parts of the world. Here in the US, the sauce consists of onion, mushroom, and sour cream. It’s the perfect classic comfort food for dinner.
Today, I am going to show you how I cook the Beef Stroganoff using an instant pot or pressure cooker.
This instant pot beef stroganoff is made from scratch, which means we are not going to use a high in sodium canned soup!
To make the stroganoff more flavorful, I make sure to brown the beef so I can have those delicious browned bits that have always been my favorite. While the browned bits will add flavor to the dish, be sure to not burn them. You can prevent this by scraping the bottom of the pot periodically while cooking.
I also cook the mushroom for a few minutes in a red wine reduction. The pressure cooker or instant pot will do its job to make the meat tender and infused with flavors in a shorter period of time.
LEARN HOW TO MAKE BEEF STROGANOFF IN AN INSTANT POT
I’ve cooked Beef Stroganoff many times with an Instant Pot and each time I used different techniques, steps and the number of ingredients to use. As a result, the beef stroganoff recipe below is the one that may be different from others you’ve tried, but I’m confident you’ll like the taste. Above all, it has a rich sauce that adds to and compliments the overall flavor.
To make the Stroganoff in an instant pot, follow these steps:
- First, cook the beef until browned, working in two batches. I do not recommend that you dredge your meat in flour.
- Second, cook the sauce ingredients (except the corn starch and sour cream).
- Third, cook all the ingredients for 10 minutes in a manual setting.
- Lastly, thicken the sauce after pressure cooking with corn starch, then add sour cream to make it creamy.
A quick tip: always add your thickening agents after pressure cooking.
The reason being that a thickening agent can interfere with the steam being generated by your instant pot, which can cause your food to burn, or in certain dishes get too watery.
INSTANT POT BEEF STROGANOFF INGREDIENTS
This is one-pot comfort food. This meal consists of beef sirloin steak, garlic, onion, red wine, Worcestershire sauce, dijon mustard, beef broth, thyme, mushrooms, sour cream, corn starch, salt, and pepper.
I use red wine instead of white wine to add a more complex flavor and help tenderize the meat. Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Zinfandel are all good choices of wine for cooking. In this particular recipe, I prefer to use Merlot.
HOW LONG TO COOK BEEF STROGANOFF IN AN INSTANT POT
Browning the beef will take you about 2-3 minutes. Cooking your sauce ingredients takes about 4-5 minutes. Afterward, you still have to cook all of the meat and sauce ingredients together (except for the corn starch and sour cream). For this part I recommend 10 – 12 minutes on a manual setting with immediate release. To thicken the sauce with cornstarch takes less than a minute.
BEST BEEF CUT FOR BEEF STROGANOFF
I highly recommend that you use Beef Tenderloin or Beef Sirloin steak. However, it’s a matter of preference and other cuts can taste good too, especially after soaking up the flavor from the mushrooms in the sauce.
Hope you’ll enjoy this pressure cooker beef stroganoff recipe!
More Instant Pot Recipes: INSTANT POT PULLED BEEF BRISKET FOR SLIDERS! INSTANT POT ROOT VEGETABLE SOUP INSTANT POT BONELESS BEEF SHORT RIBS
Fall-apart tender beef in the most flavorful sauce! The sauteed beef is smothered in a creamy, sour cream mushroom sauce
- 1.5 pounds beef sirloin steak (seasoned with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper)
- 2 tablespoons oil divided
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 cups sliced yellow onions
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 pound cremini (sliced)
- 1/4 cup red wine for more complex flavor or white wine (I used Merlot)
- 1 tablespoon Wosterchire sauce
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 3 sprigs of Thyme
- 1 1/2 cups beef broth
- 11/2 teaspoons better than bouillon (OPTIONAL)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (add more according to your liking)
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper (add more according to your liking)
- 1 pound egg noodles (cooked according to the product packaging)
- 2 tablespoons corn starch (mix with 2 tablespoons of water)
- 1 cup sour cream
Pound the beef sirloin and cut into thin strips.
Transfer the beef strips into a bowl and season with 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper.
Press"Saute" and adjust it to "High" setting.
1st batch: Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to the instant pot and cook half of the beef for about 2-3 minutes total or until browned. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
2nd Batch: Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to the instant pot and cook half of the beef for about 2-3 minutes total or until browned. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
Add butter into the pot, then add onion, keep stirring and cook for about 2 minutes, then add garlic and give it a quick stir for about 15 seconds.
- Add mushrooms, keep stirring for about 1 minute. Then add red wine, cook for about 2 minutes.
Add dijon mustard, Wosterchire sauce, thyme, better than bouillon, stir until well combined.
Be sure to scrape the bottom of the pot to keep the pan clear and nothing is stuck on it.
Add the browned beef and the broth into the pot. Close the lid. Make sure the steam release knob is in the Sealed position.
Select "Keep warm" then press "Manual" for 10 minutes and after cooking, Quick Release the pressure.
Open the lid and set the "Saute", adjust to "High" setting and bring the sauce to bubble. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper if needed.
Add corn starch and water (1:1 ratio) mixture and keep stirring until the sauce is thickened. Turn off the heat, let the bubbles subside and stir in sour cream until well combined.
Enjoy with cooked egg noodles.
Beef Broth: I purchased the Beef Broth from Sprout’s market. It’s a store brand, called “Organic Beef Flavored Broth”. It contains 570 mg of sodium per cup (245 gram).
Better than Beef Bouillon: This is an optional ingredient. You may skip it, just adjust the saltiness according to your taste.
cait
Jun 10, 2019 at 7:54 amthis looks AmAZING and i just got an instant pot so i feel like this may be one of the first recipes i make 🙂 YUM!
Alli Smith
Jun 10, 2019 at 7:55 amBeef Stroganoff is so delicious!. I haven’t made it in years and I like that I can make it in the instant pot. The photos are making me hungry.
Melissa Chapman
Jun 10, 2019 at 8:11 amThat stroganoff looks amazing and so tender and moist. I don’t have an instant pot but people who love beef will love this recipe.
Karen
Jun 10, 2019 at 8:18 amStroganoff is so awesome! I’m keeping this post to make this in my instant pot! It sounds so easy and delicious!
robin rue
Jun 10, 2019 at 11:28 amThat looks SO good! I especially love that I can make it in my instant pot! Can’t wait to try it.
Melanie
Jun 10, 2019 at 12:42 pmI have not jumped on the INstant Pot trend yet. I know of many people who use them. I still prefer my trusty slow cooker.
Sarah Bailey
Jun 10, 2019 at 1:23 pmThis looks like an absolutely incredible recipe to use an instant pot for! It is amazing all the different things you can do with an instant pot these days!
Tasheena
Jun 10, 2019 at 4:49 pmI really need to invest in a Instant Pot. This recipe would be perfect for my meal plan this week.
Pam
Jun 10, 2019 at 4:51 pmI love beef stroganoff, and I love my instant pot. But I have never thought to make beef stroganoff in my instant pot!
Rachel
Jun 10, 2019 at 8:10 pmBeef stroganoff is one of my most favorite meals. I also am a huge fan of my instant pot so this is a perfect combo.
Beth
Jun 10, 2019 at 8:18 pmMy mom used to make beef stroganoff when I was a kid, and it was so good! I’ll have to make this recipe and invite her to dinner sometime soon.
Ricci
Jun 10, 2019 at 9:57 pmI love a good beef stroganoff and your Instant Pot recipe looks and sounds so good! I need to try this for myself!
Shoshana Sue
Jun 11, 2019 at 12:25 amThanks for this recipe. I love beef stroganoff and will definitely try your instant pot recipe
Lisa Favre
Jun 11, 2019 at 4:46 amI absolutely love beef stroganoff and this instant pot recipe is one I have to try. I am sure my family would just gobble it all up!
Ruth I
Jun 11, 2019 at 5:18 amThis looks like a tasty and wonderful dish. I can tell that my friends are going to finish this pretty easy. This is going to be my next dish.
Lynndee
Jun 11, 2019 at 5:42 amBeef Stroganoff is one of my favorites to prepare in the slow cooker. Yours looks so tasty and delicious. Now I’m hungry.
Kathy
Jun 11, 2019 at 9:15 amI love beef stroganoff. It is one of my favorite dishes. I would love to try this recipe in the instant pot sometime. I haven’t yet, but now looking forward to it.
Catalina
Jun 11, 2019 at 1:46 pmNow I know what I will make for dinner tonight! This dish looks amazingly delicious!
Marysa
Jun 11, 2019 at 7:24 pmSounds like such a convenient meal, and so hearty too. I haven’t had stroganoff in ages and this would be a good dish for the whole family.