This Instant Pot Beef Pot Roast cooks in record time, making it perfect for a weeknight dinner or a stress-free special occasion! The best part is that it's also healthy and nutritious, suitable for those following a 21-Day Fix, Whole30 or other whole food diets. This is a guest recipe from Nancylynn of Confessions Of A Fit Foodie.
The thing we love about the Instant Pot the most is that you can whip up a roast dinner - which is usually reserved for weekends when you have a bit more time up your sleeve – any night of the week! And, having the ability to speed up the slow cooking required for those affordable cuts of meat whenever you need to.
Cooking beef pot roast in the oven would usually take up 3-4 hours, but you can slash that time in more than half by doing it in a pressure cooker. And in this Instant Pot roast and potatoes recipe, Nancylynn shows us how to make the whole meal – beef, veggies and gravy – in one go. And, she keeps it simple and healthy, making it the perfect family meal.
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Instant Pot Beef Roast With Potatoes & Carrots
Ingredients
- 4 teaspoon olive oil divided
- 2 lbs. chuck roast boneless, trimmed
- ½ onion roughly chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1.5 cups low-sodium beef broth or stock
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 3-4 sprigs of thyme optional
- 6 carrots chopped thick and on a diagonal
- 3 cups baby potatoes skin left on
- Himalayan or sea salt
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce or coconut aminos
- 1 tablespoon Tapioca starch or arrowroot, rice flour, or cornstarch
- Optional for the gravy: 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar or lemon juice
Instructions
- Trim all fat from the chuck roast steak then sprinkle salt on each side (about ½ teaspoon).
- Turn the Instant Pot, set it to Sauté and wait until it heats up. Add 2 teaspoons of the olive oil and sear meat on both sides. Remove roast from the pot.
- Add the remaining 2 teaspoons of olive oil to the pot and add the onions and garlic. Sauté for a few minutes until fragrant, then deglaze with broth, tomato paste, and Worcestershire sauce or coconut aminos. Get all those brown bits up from the bottom of the pot to flavour your meat and veggies and make a killer gravy!
- Add the beef back to the pot, along with potatoes. Place carrots in a steamer basket on top of the meat and potatoes. Lock the lid and set for HIGH pressure for 60 minutes.
- After cook time, release the pressure naturally, it should take about 15 minutes. If you are hangry or impatient, you could switch it over to quick release anytime after this point and you will be good.
- Remove the beef roast and the veggies to a casserole dish. Enjoy as is or make a quick gravy by removing ½ cup of the stock and mixing it with 1 tablespoon of your thickener. Add this slurry back to the Instant Pot and set the IP to Sauté again. Simmer until the gravy thickens to your liking, stirring frequently. Taste for salt and pepper and season as needed. You might also like to add a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar or lemon juice.
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Claudia K.
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Instant Pot Eats
Thank you!
Amber Silvers
Can I use any potatoes with this?
Instant Pot Eats
Yes, any potatoes will work 🙂
Lucinda in Lee, MA
1st of all thank you for your recipe and your blog. I'm a newbie to instant pot cooking.Found a great pot roast in the "last day" sale bin at my local market. I was ready to pull out my trusty slow cooker when it occurred to me that I might be able to do this all in my insta pot. Sooooo Found this recipe and the rest is history. Fantastic and only an hour and a half from prep to plate. I'll be back for more !
Mary
This was a great, simply, gluten free recipe for a delicious pot roast! Thanks for using a small roast as we are a small family and a lot of the recipes I see for roasts use 4+ pounds pieces of meat. I think dinner was on the table 1 1/2 hours after I started searing. I have been making pot roast for the last 30 years originally using not so clean ingredients. After eating this my husband asked that I stick to this recipe and put it on regular rotation...We are a family of three and have leftovers that I am looking forward to eating for lunch!! I look forward to browsing and using other recipes from this site.
Rena
I actually don't think I have a steamer basket for the carrots. Is there something else I can do instead?
instantpoteats
Just pop them on top of the meat, that will work just as well.