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.
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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.
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Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3 cloves (1 clove) garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon (1 tbsp) fresh ginger grated
- 12 ounces (340g) (2 cups) flank beef steak sliced into strips or cubed
- ¼ cup water to deglaze the pot after browning the beef
For the sauce
- ¼ cup (2 tbsp) low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon (1 tsp) brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon (1 tsp) sesame oil
- ¾ cup water or beef stock
For the slurry, broccoli, and garnish
- 1 tablespoon (1 tsp) cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon of water
- 12 ounces (340g) (3 cups) broccoli steamed
- 1 teaspoon (1 tsp) sesame seeds to garnish (optional)
For serving
- Cooked rice
Instructions
- Press on the SAUTE setting on the Instant Pot and heat the oil.
- Saute the garlic and ginger for a minute, then add the beef to brown it. When the beef is browned, deglaze with ¼ cup of water and scrape off any bits stuck to the bottom of the pot.
- Add the sauce ingredients (soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, water) and give them a stir. Switch off the SAUTE setting.
- Secure the lid and set the vent to SEALING. Select the PRESSURE COOK/MANUAL setting and set the cooking time for 8 minutes at high pressure. The Instant Pot will take around 5 minutes to come to pressure and start cooking. When the cooking program ends, quickly release the steam and remove the lid.
To thicken the sauce:
- Press on the SAUTE setting, and add the cornstarch slurry. Stir the sauce until it's thickened. If it's not thick enough, then add one more tablespoon of cornstarch with water mixed together before adding to the sauce.
- Stir in the cooked broccoli and serve over rice. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds.
Notes:
- I made a small quantity for this post, but you can easily double or triple the amount of the ingredients. The cooking time remains the same.
- Initially, the recipe called for half a cup of low-sodium soy sauce, but we decided to change this to just fourth a cup after we received feedback that the sauce turned out too salty.
- For more flavor, add 1 teaspoon of oyster sauce to the sauce.
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Nutrition Information
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.
© Little Sunny Kitchen
Laura says
Was very good and easy to make.
Mary says
Could fresh (not frozen) broccoli cook in the instant pot with the meat?
Diana says
Hi Mary, I don’t recommend pressure cooking broccoli as it will turn into mush.
Jess says
What can you use instead of the sesame oil? My son is allergic.
Diana says
I can’t think of a substitute that would give you a similar flavor to sesame oil, so I would just omit that.