Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli

Easy 8-ingredient Instant Pot beef and broccoli cooked in 35 minutes or less! This is much healthier and better than take-outs as it’s not greasy and it’s made for just a fraction of the cost!

I love takeouts, but I always worry about what’s in my food, if it’s healthy or really fattening and greasy,  and how it was prepared. I then learned how to make my favorite take-out meals at home, but recently started experimenting with my Instant Pot and learned how to make my life even easier and cook things like this beef and broccoli in the Instant Pot!

This easy recipe requires very simple ingredients, and making it at home can save you money.

Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli Recipe

The beef is cooked with lots of flavor, and a simple but incredibly tasting soy sauce based sauce. Then served over white rice with perfectly cooked broccoli florets.

This Instant Pot beef and broccoli recipe will become your go-to dinner on busy weeknights, or when you’re craving a takeout classic meal.

Tools and Key ingredients

Complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.

• An Instant Pot. I currently have this Instant Pot, it’s my favorite!
• I love these stainless steel measuring cups and use them every time I cook, as well as those measuring spoons.
• Beef flank steak.
• Steamed broccoli.
• Garlic and ginger.
• Brown sugar, granulated sugar, or honey to sweeten up the sauce a little.
• Sesame oil.
• Soy sauce, it’s important to use low sodium soy sauce otherwise, your food will be too salty.
• Corn starch to thicken the sauce.
• Sesame seeds.

How to make Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli

• On saute mode for 10 minutes, saute the garlic (and the grated ginger if using). Cook the garlic for one minute until it’s fragrant.
• Add the sliced beef strips and brown them. Stir using a wooden spoon.
• Add the sauce ingredients. Soy sauce, brown sugar, and sesame oil. Give them a stir to combine them.

• Secure the lid, and set the vent on sealing position. Click on “manual” or “pressure cook” on high, and set at 8 minutes. Allow the Instant Pot to build up the pressure, and then cook for 8 minutes. Once it beeps, it means that the cooking is finished. Quickly release the steam, and carefully open the lid.
• To thicken the sauce, add the slurry (corn starch mixed with water in equal amounts). Saute for 1-2 minutes and stir. You might need a little bit more slurry than the amount indicated in the recipe card but start with just 1 tablespoon of corn starch and 1 tablespoon of water then decide if you need to add more or not. The sauce will become thick and glossy. Switch off the Instant Pot, and mix in the steamed broccoli (find out how to steam broccoli in 0 minutes in the Instant Pot here).
• Serve over Instant Pot white rice, and garnish with toasted sesame seeds.

Instant Pot Broccoli

Broccoli cooks in the Instant Pot in just 0 minutes. You will need to separately steam it in the Instant Pot and then add it to the beef after thickening the sauce. If you add it before cooking the beef, you will end up with mushy broccoli.

To learn how to steam broccoli in the Instant Pot, and get the desired texture, check out my Instant Pot steamed broccoli recipe.

You can also make this dish but with chicken, check out my Instant Pot chicken and broccoli recipe. It’s sooo good! Or even better, with shrimp! Here’s my shrimp and broccoli recipe.

Beef and Broccoli Calories

The ingredients used to make this recipe is enough to make 2 portions. One portion contains approximately 480 calories.

Crockpot Beef and Broccoli

Want to cook this beef and broccoli in the slow cooker? Check out my slow cooker version!

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Or check out my Instant Pot recipe collection!