This Instant Pot Beef Teriyaki is the perfect take out inspired recipe, right in your Instant Pot! Your pot will open to delicious, fall apart beef coated in a balanced, classic teriyaki sauce. I know you will love this one!
You guys. My Instant Pot is amazing me over and over again. Every time I make a recipe I have to pinch myself because it was so easy! I love throwing something into the Instant Pot during the day so that dinner is ready and I can clean up, and get out of the kitchen for the evening. I can enjoy dinner with my family instead of running around like a chicken with my head cut off. It feels really good to have most of the dinner dishes done before you even have dinner too!
I’m still discovering all of the ridiculously amazing settings on my Instant Pot. I have the Duo Plus, and it has two whole rows of settings that can do things like steam, sterilize, make yogurt, pressure cook, slow cook, and more. I mean, if this thing isn’t just pure magic then I don’t even know what it is.
I’ll be honest, when I first got it, I was kind of wondering if it would live up to the hype. After tasting this recipe, I can officially say the Instant Pot lives up to the hype 100% for me. It doesn’t get any easier then this, and you don’t have to stand over a stove all evening. You can throw your ingredients in the pot and walk away! Hallelujah!
With school starting next Monday I am sure on the hunt for some easy weeknight recipes. This Instant Pot Beef Teriyaki is exactly the kind of recipe I love to have on hand on a busy night where everyone has homework, the kids are whining, the baby is crying, and my husband is working late. I’m pretty sure that is always how those nights go, right? It is never just one thing, it is EVERYTHING all at once. When you feel like your drowning in your Mom duties, the last thing you want to do is cook. I’m finding more and more that instead of ordering take out like we used to, I am grabbing some protein throwing it in the Instant Pot, and putting a side on and I’m done.
Instant Pot Beef Teriyaki Recipe Tips
- I use 2 pounds of sirloin in this recipe, but other cuts of beef would work the same. Wegman’s is my go-to for meat, and they always have double packs of huge sirloins in their selection. I pick one up and the meat goes a long way! Roast meat or stew meat would work too, however I do prefer the sirloin because I can easily trim the chewy, fatty edges.
- As always, please read your Instant Pot manual before using the Instant Pot!
- If you aren’t familiar with Instant Pot terminology this is what you need to know: First press the manual button and on your screen you’ll see that you can set your pot to high pressure and adjust time. Set to 17 minutes. Make sure your steam valve is closed, we want to keep the pressure in the pot. If your steam valve is open, you’ll see the steam coming out of the pot. You don’t want this. Your pot won’t start cooking immediately, it does need to come to heat first. Everything happens automatically so you literally just set it and walk away. Once the pot is to temperature, the timer will start. After the timer runs out, it will beep to let you know it is done, however you still need to release the pressure. This recipe calls for a natural pressure release which literally means letting the pot sit and doing nothing. When your pot beeps to let you know your cooking time has finished, a new timer begins to let you know how long it has been releasing pressure. Once 20 minutes has elapsed, your dinner is done! All you have to do is open the steam valve to let any additional steam out, and then open the pot.
- This sounds super hard to follow but once you have done it one time you will realize how easy it is. Your Instant Pot does everything!
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The Instant Pot makes this Beef Teriyaki so easy! You will open your pot to tender, delicious Beef Teriyaki, and your mind will be blow at how simple it was!
Ingredients
2 pounds sirloin steak, cubed
1 cup water (to put in pot before cooking)
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic
1/4 cup cold water (for thickening sauce)
2 Tablespoons cornstarch (for thickening sauce)
Instructions
Cut your sirloin into cubes. Add sirloin, 1 cup water, 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, and 1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic to your Instant Pot.
Set your Instant Pot on Manual Setting at high pressure. Make sure your steam valve is closed. Cook for 17 minutes, then allow a 20 minute natural release. Release vent to allow any extra steam to release, and open pot.
Switch Instant Pot to sauté mode, uncovered. Mix 1/4 cup cold water with 2 Tablespoons cornstarch, mixing well to make sure there are no clumps. Pour the cornstarch slurry into your Instant Pot and stir until your teriyaki sauce thickens.
Serve over a bed of jasmine rice or broccoli.
Notes
I used the Instant Pot Duo Plus for this recipe! Here is exactly the model I have. I can’t say enough about how magical this machine is!
