Did you forget to thaw your ground beef? Not to worry! Here’s how you can use your Instant Pot to cook your frozen ground beef.

Instant Pot Frozen Ground Beef

Did you know that you could cook frozen ground beef in the Instant Pot? This frozen ground beef Instant Pot recipe is so easy and perfect for when you’re like me and head off to bed before remembering to defrost my beef! More than once I’ll jolt awake at 2am and go “omg the beef!” But not anymore! With the Instant Pot, I can quickly and easily cook frozen ground beef.

What You’ll Need To Cook Frozen Beef in an Instant Pot

water
frozen ground beef

Equipment:

trivet (one comes with the Instant Pot)

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How to Cook Frozen Ground Beef in Instant Pot

Place the trivet inside of your Instant Pot.
Add a cup of water to the bottom of the Instant Pot.
Place frozen block of ground beef on top of the trivet and close the Instant Pot lid, setting it to sealing.

Press manual and set to high pressure for 25 minutes.
When done, quick release.
Using an instant read meat thermometer and make sure the meat is at 160F/71C
If not fully cooked, remove trivet and pour out the liquid in Instant Pot and set to sauté and quickly sauté the ground beef until fully cooked.

Tips and Notes on This Instant Pot Frozen Ground Beef

If you’d like to season your beef (ie making taco beef), I suggest cooking on high pressure for half of the time to “thaw” the beef, quick release, remove the beef, pour out remaining liquid, and remove the trivet before putting the meat back in the Instant Pot on sauté mode. Season and finish cooking on sauté.
For meal prepping, I store my ground beef in an airtight glass container.

It takes 5-10 minutes for the Instant Pot to come up to pressure before the countdown starts so don’t be worried if it doesn’t start counting down right away.
I use either a potato masher or just two forks to break up the cooked ground beef to make it look like… ground beef if it was cooked on the stove top.
As this recipe isn’t seasoned, I usually pair this ground beef with a sauce.

Recipes To Try Using Ground Beef

How To Cook Frozen Ground Beef in the Instant Pot

Did you forget to thaw your ground beef? Not to worry! Here’s how you can use your Instant Pot to cook your frozen ground beef.

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Prep Time: 0

Cook Time: 25

Total Time: 25

Servings: servings

Ingredients

1 cup water
1 lb frozen ground beef

Instructions

Place the trivet inside of your Instant Pot.
Add a cup of water to the bottom of the Instant Pot.
Place frozen block of ground beef on top of the trivet and close the Instant Pot lid, setting it to sealing.
Press manual and set to high pressure for 25 minutes.
When done, quick release.
Using an instant read meat thermometer and make sure the meat is at 160F/71C
If not fully cooked, remove trivet and pour out the liquid in Instant Pot and set to sauté and quickly sauté the ground beef until fully cooked.

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