Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowl Recipe (2024)

Start your week off right with thisInstant Pot Korean Beef Bowl recipe. Your family and friends will absolutely love this meal! It tastes fancy but only takes a couple hours to prepare this fall-off-the-bone shredded Korean beef with your Instant Pot.

Love delicious Instant Pot meat recipes? Our Instant Pot Pork Roast and Instant Pot Pot Roast two of our other favorite Instant Pot meals!

Beef in the Instant Pot

How amazing do these Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowls look?! Let me just tell you, think of the most delicious beef roast you have ever had. The kind of beef roasts your mom or grandma make for the holidays. The kind of beef roast that cooks all day long.

These Korean Beef Bowls are THAT good, except (thanks to the Instant Pot) they are done in just 2 hours! The Instant Pot can produce one heck of a meal in just hours compared to a slow cooker.

Cooking big chunks of beef in the Instant Pot is one of our favorite ways to cook beef! It just makes so much sense!

What cut of meat do I use?

We use a chuck roast in this recipe. A chuck roast is a cut of meat from the shoulder of the animal. It can be labeled as chuck roast, pot roast, or shoulder steak in a grocery store. For this recipe, we used a boneless beef chuck roast.

Pro Tip:this recipe will work with a bone-in chuck roast, but it will definitely increase your cook time in the Instant Pot as it will take longer for the meat to break down and tenderize. If you try this method, let us know how it turned out in the comment

Staple Ingredients

We love these Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowls because they incorporate quality meat with tasty crunchy bell peppers that we just love! And? It’s a super easy recipe. This isn’t must ANY beef recipe. This is a Korean beef recipe and there are two important ways we are going to add flavor to this meal.

First, with the dry rub of the meat and then second, with the Korean Beef sauce!

Dry Rub Ingredients

The dry rub we use to rub the chuck roast uses brown sugar, ginger, salt and red pepper flakes (which is very common ins Korean beef recipes,). A little sweet a savory with a good amount of salt with perfectly season your meat while the salt tenderizes the meat!

• Brown sugar
• Ground ginger
• Pepper
• Red pepper flakes
• Salt

Korean Beef Sauce Ingredients

You are going to want to drink this Korean beef sauce out of a cup it’s so good! The sauce is added to the Instant Pot before you cook the beef and thickens and becomes flavorful while everything is cooking in the Instant Pot.

• Soy sauce
• Maple syrup
• Fresh ginger
• Sriracha
• Cornstarch

How to Make Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowls

Rub

The first step to this whole recipe is to rub the chuck roast down with the delicious dry rub. The key to making sure you get the most bang from your buck is to rub down the the chuck roast and make sure every inch is covered.

Finally, let the beef and dry rub sit for at least 10 minutes before searing the beef (the longer you let the beef in the dry rub, the better!).

Sear

Searing the chuck roast before pressure cooking the meat in the Instant Pot creates a delicious crust on the outside of the chuck roast and gets the juices flowing in the beef roast.

After you have searing the roast, remove the roast from the pot and use a spatula to scrape off all of the brown bits from the bottom of the pot (these are flavorful brown bits!).

Cook

Finally, toss the onion, garlic, and all of the sauce ingredients together in the bottom of the Instant Pot and place the beef roast on top of all of the Ingredients and set the Instant Pot to cook on low pressure for two hours.

While beef is cooking, prepare your rice and peppers for the bowls!

Shred

Once the beef is done cooking, remove the beef from the Instant Pot and shred the beef with two forks. The beef should easily pull a part! Before adding the beef back into the pot, turn the sauté function on and sprinkle the corn starch into the sauce at the bottom of the pot and whisk until the sauce begins to thickens.

Add the beef back into the pot and toss the beef with the delicious sauce!

Here’s a tip–> Slowly add the cornstarch to the pot, if you add too much at a time it will clump!

Assemble Bowls

It’s time to EAT! Evenly distribute rice, peppers, and beef into bowls and enjoy!

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