Recipe This | Instant Pot Beef & Green Bean Stir Fry (2024)

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Instant Pot Beef & Green Bean Stir Fry. If you are looking for the ultimate dinner in a hurry then it doesn’t get any better than a pressure cooker beef and green bean stir fry.

Sauté, add the rest of your ingredients and bring to pressure. As simple as that!

How about a stir fry in the Instant Pot? Forget those times when you have a beef and green bean stir fry and the meat is really tough, this is how to make the cheapest cut of beef into an amazing beef and green bean stir fry.

I love the Chinese buffet and very rarely go to a Chinese restaurant. In fact I was trying to think recently when was the last time I actually went to a Chinese restaurant and it dawned on me that the last time, was back in 2011 with a friend of mine and Dominic’s.

It was a Chinese restaurant that I had been to quite a lot, but as it wasn’t in the area that I lived anymore it has been forgotten about.

We had a mixed platter of Chinese food that included the usual suspects. There would be French toast, crunchy seaweed, spare ribs, chicken wings and a few other bits and pieces.

Then you would have crispy duck and pancakes with sliced spring onion and cucumber. After all this you would have some sweet and sour chicken or some beef in a black bean sauce.

You would then have a side of egg fried rice.

All in all you would be stuffed and you would easily spend £20 each on your meal. Plus drinks.

Then compare this to a Chinese Buffet.

If you take a family of four to a Chinese Buffet even with them making the money back from the drinks you would still be paying less.

On average we will pay 12€ each including drinks and then you can eat as much or as little as you like.

I can start with my prawn toast (like I used to) I can have sushi (never on offer in the Chinese restaurant) and then my beef and green bean stir fry.

Instant Pot Beef & Green Bean Stir Fry

Instant Pot Beef & Green Bean Stir Fry. Full of favourite Chinese seasonings and perfect for a quick midweek meal.

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Instant Pot

Servings: 3

Calories: 173kcal

Author: RecipeThis.com

Ingredients

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Beef Frying Steak
30 g Mushrooms
30 g Green Beans
1 Medium White Onion
6 Spring Onions
6 Garlic Cloves
2 cm Fresh Ginger
500 ml Beef Stock
1 Tbsp Olive Oil
6 Tbsp Soy Sauce
1 Tbsp Worcester Sauce
6 Tbsp Chinese 5 Spice
Salt & Pepper
White Rice optional
Seasonal Stir Fry Vegetables optional

Metric – Imperial

Instructions

Do your prep. Peel and dice your garlic, onion and ginger. Slice up and wash your mushrooms and spring onions. Give your green beans a clean. Thinly dice your beef like you would for beef stroganoff.
Place your beef strips in the Instant Pot.
Cook for 3 minutes on sauté in the Instant Pot with a little olive oil until the beef has some colour to it.
Add the mushrooms, green beans, onions, garlic and ginger to the Instant Pot. Add a 1/3 of your Chinese 5 spice, lots of salt and pepper, ¼ of your soy sauce and your Worcester sauce. Give a stir and cook for a further 3 minutes.
Add to it your beef stock, give it a stir and place the lid on your Instant Pot. Set to sealing and cook for 10 minutes on manual.
When it beeps mix the contents together with a big wooden spoon with the rest of the Chinese 5 spice and the Soy Sauce and get rid of any excess juice that you don’t need. Serve with either rice or noodles.

Notes

Before you start slicing up your beef, do make sure you have sharpened your knives first. As when you have small pieces of beef it is easy to hurt yourself if your knives are blunt. We used 2 thick slices of beef frying steak in our Instant Pot. You could use chuck, brisket, sirloin etc depending on your budget and what you can get hold of.

Make sure you don’t over crowd the beef otherwise it will not cook very well. If you have a lot, then do it in batches. For beef stock we had made beef brisket the day before and used 500ml of this to stir into the pot. It’s important that you go with a beef stock rather than just water as it will lose the flavour. I always have on hand some beef OXO cubes just in case I am out of homemade beef stock.

It’s important that you use a decent amount of seasoning otherwise when the food goes to pressure it will lose its flavour. Taste your food before serving and if it needs a little extra then give it some. I also recommend adding some seasonal stir fry vegetables at the same time as your mushrooms. My favourites are red peppers and carrots but broccoli is also nice.

We have found the best place to source beef frying steak to make Instant Pot Beef & Green Bean Stir Fry is from ButcherBox. You even receive free bacon and $10 off your first order when you sign up with this link.

For the best beef stock in your recipes I would recommend Kettle & Fire. Unfortunately they are not available in the UK so if you are UK based I would use OXO cubes.

Nutrition

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