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Instant Pot Mongolian Beef is a fast ane-pot weeknight recipe made with sliced flank steak in a delicious ginger-garlic sauce. Information technology's an piece of cake pressure cooker version of PF Changs popular beef dish.

a close-up of a white bowl filled with mongolian beef—thinly cut flank steak cooked in the Instant Pot and coated in a dark sauce with green onions and sesame seeds for garnish

❤️ Why You'll Love This Recipe: This is one of our go-to weeknight dinner recipes because it's set up in 30 minutes, is generally hands-off, and is jam-packed with rich Asian flavors. Serve information technology with white rice for a complete meal without any stress.

Update: We make this Mongolian beefiness recipe all the fourth dimension, and then I've updated the recipe and post with new tips and photos to assistance you perfect it.

an overhead shot of flank steak sauteeing in an Instant Pot with the other food ingredients in bowls to the lower portion of the photo

How to Make Instant Pot Mongolian Beef

Way back in 2012, a reader asked me to catechumen Just a Taste's Mongolian Beef recipe to a non-spicy pressure cooker version. It's been a reader-favorite e'er since!

Even though it's a pressure level cooker recipe, I kickoff by browning the flank steak in the pressure cooking pot. You can skip this step if you're in a pinch, only I highly recommend it for the all-time flavour.

Tip: The key to getting a groovy sear on your steak is to avoid crowding the pot. Cook in batches until everything is nicely browned, then be sure to deglaze the pot with broth and scrape upward the browned bits.

Once your beef is ready to go, yous'll build the sauce with:

  • Garlic.
  • Soy sauce. This adds umami and saltiness.
  • Brown sugar. In a pinch, you can use regular white sugar or beloved.
  • Ginger. Fresh is best for the boldest flavour, simply you can use dried to tone it downwardly.
thinly sliced flank steak on a wooden cutting board with ginger and garlic and onions in the background

Fob for Slicing Flank Steak

Honestly, the easiest style to become thinly sliced flank steak is to ask your butcher.

(Jenn here: I honestly didn't I could ask the butcher to practise this until I went grocery shopping with Barbara. It might add a few minutes to the shopping trip, but they always go it perfectly sparse and it saves so much more time at dinner time.)

If you're cutting your steak yourself, my favorite way to cut it is to put it in the freezer for xxx minutes, so accept it out and slice it with a sharp pocketknife. The quick chill fourth dimension makes it hold its shape better when cut, and then it'due south easier to go consequent and thin slices.

an overhead shot of mongolian beef cooked and in a thick sauce inside the Instant Pot with a wooden spoon stirring them and green onions on the bottom of the photo

Thickening Mongolian Beefiness

The stove top method for Mongolian beefiness stir-fry calls for blanket the sliced beef in cornstarch before cooking. This helps absorb some of the liquid from the soy sauce and other ingredients.

But because thickeners tin can crusade burning on the bottom of an Instant Pot, the all-time way to thicken upwards the sauce in this dish is subsequently it's finished cooking.

Add a simple slurry of cornstarch and water to the pot. Then apply the Saute feature to bring the sauce to a simmer. It will thicken upwards nicely and the sauce volition coat the beef nicely.

an overhead shot showing a white bowl of cooked Instant Pot Mongolian Beef garnished with scallions and sesame seeds in front of an Instant Pot with a second bowl of pressure cooked mongolian beef in the background

What to Serve with Instant Pot Beef

This is a stir-fry style dish that goes great with cooked grains. Try serving your Mongolian beefiness with fluffy Instant Pot white or brown rice. For something more adventurous effort Pressure Cooker Forbidden Blackness Rice.

For a little extra crisis and color on top of the dish, spiral your plate with white sesame seeds. And if you like some heat, try a nuance of hot pepper flakes.

a close-up photo fo mongolian beef served with white rice and broccoli

Freezing Beef Stir-Fry

You lot can easily freeze this dish for later. But let information technology cool fully, then place information technology in an airtight freezer-safe container.

If y'all programme to defrost the dish in your Instant Pot, I recommend freezing it in a heat-rubber container then it can go directly into your pressure cooker.

Utilise this guide to using the pot-in-pot method to defrost and reheat food in your Instant Pot.

More Instant Pot Beef Recipes

  • Instant Pot Beefiness and Broccoli has sliced beefiness, crisp-tender broccoli in a savory garlic sauce.
  • Pressure level Cooker Beef Stroganoff has a flossy sauce that's delicious over springy butter noodles.
  • Old-Fashioned Instant Pot Beef Stew is a rich and comforting winter dish that's great with mashed potatoes.
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Ingredients

  • ii pounds flank steak, cut into 1/4" strips
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
  • i/2 cup soy sauce
  • i/two cup water
  • 2/iii loving cup dark brown saccharide
  • one/two teaspoon minced fresh ginger
  • 2 tablespoon cornstarch
  • three tablespoons water
  • iii green onions, sliced into 1-inch pieces

Instructions

  1. Season beef with salt and pepper. Put oil in the cooking pot and select browning. When oil begins to sizzle, chocolate-brown meat in batches until all meat is browned - do non crowd. Transfer meat to a plate when browned.
  2. Add the garlic and sauté 1 minute. Add soy sauce, 1/2 cup water, chocolate-brown sugar, and ginger. Stir to combine.
  3. Add browned beef and any accumulated juices. Select Loftier Pressure. Fix timer for 12 minutes.
  4. When beep sounds turn pressure cooker off and utilize a quick force per unit area release. When valve drops carefully remove the hat.
  5. Combine the cornstarch and iii tablespoons water, whisking until polish. Add cornstarch mixture to the sauce in the pot stirring constantly. Select Simmer and bring to a boil, stirring constantly until sauce thickens. Stir in green onions.
Nutrition Information:

Yield: 6 Serving Size: i
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 415 Total Fat: 15g Saturated Fatty: 5g Trans Fatty: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 8g Cholesterol: 119mg Sodium: 1261mg Carbohydrates: 25g Cobweb: 0g Carbohydrate: 20g Protein: 44g

Diet information is calculated by Nutritionix and may not always exist accurate.

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