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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 our Low Carb Recipe Library that we update weekly.

Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
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As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content 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 should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.

Instant Pot Ground Beef (Batch Cooking) Recipe

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.

Instant Pot Ground Beef (Batch Cooking)

5 from 9 votes

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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

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 15

Servings: 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 our Low Carb Recipe Library that we update weekly.
Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in our Amazon Influencer Shop.
As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content 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 should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.

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