Welcome to my Instant Pot Beef Roast. This roasted beef in the Instant Pot will take your next Sunday dinner to a whole new level. It is so SIMPLE that your kids could make it for YOU.
You can move the girl away from Yorkshire and get her to live in a beautiful hot country like Portugal, but you can never take the Yorkshire out of the girl.
I grew up in a small town called Bridlington in the North East of England. An Aussie singer once named it as “quaint little town” in her autobiography. I would say it was a town, with not many opportunities for young people (hence why I left) but a place where you are guaranteed a delicious beef roast.
There would be a carvery on every street and you could pay a set price to have roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, loads of vegetables and gravy.
We knew these places so well and you would find them packed out with locals and holiday makers on a Sunday afternoon while they waited for their beef roast fix.
Dominic worked in many of these places during his chef days during the mid 90s until the dawn of the new Millennium. I also worked in a few of them as a waitress when I was still at school.
He often said that the biggest perk to working at one of these lovely places is the fact that you got plenty of the leftovers when the customers had gone home. Sadly I worked in the one place where the food was rather horrible, so I would instead help myself to Yorkshire teacakes instead.
To me my memories of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is well before you could have an Instant Pot Beef Roast. It was also when your mum used to make it for Sunday dinner.
My mum made (and still does make) a fantastic beef roast. It would come with the biggest ever Yorkshire Puddings that you have ever seen, vegetables in a cheese sauce, homemade gravy, savoy cabbage and never enough roast potatoes.
She would start it at lunch time and everything would be ready in time for dinner and the house would smell of delicious home cooking.
But now we have an Instant Pot and can make a Sunday Beef Roast in a fraction of the time. We can cook the roast in the Instant Pot, make roast potatoes in the Airfryer and steam our vegetables in the soup maker. Gone is the 3 hours that it would once take to make a quality roast dinner and instead we can do the whole thing in under an hour.
Our grandparents would find this surreal and some kind of magical event.
But it is true and that is why I will carry around with me my Pressure Cooker Instant Pot Beef Roast recipe, so that I can save time and focus more on being with my family as time can be so precious.
Instant Pot Beef Roast
Ingredients
- Instant Pot
- Work Sharp Knife Sharpener
- Beef Rib Roast
- 3 Tbsp Sage
- Salt & Pepper
Instructions
- Place the beef rib onto a chopping board. Using a sharp knife score the meat so that your beef will be flavoursome.
- Rub salt, pepper and sage into the top and sides of the beef.
- Place 1 cup (240ml) of warm water into the bottom of your Instant Pot inner pot.
- Place the rib of beef on top, set the lid to sealing and cook for 40 minutes on manual.
- Use quick pressure release (QPR) when it beeps if you are looking for rare to medium beef like we had. Otherwise leave it on natural pressure release (NPR) if you want your beef to be medium.
Notes
Nutrition
Where To Source Your Beef Rib Roast To Make Instant Pot Beef Roast:
Crystal Stremlau says
You specify setting roast to manual for 40 min, but at what temp Fahrenheit? I’m looking for rare-med rare. Looks great!
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi Crystal,
With an instant pot pressure cooker there is no temperature it is just low pressure or high pressure in which case you need high pressure. The time is most important and so is the type of release at the end. We cooked our joint for exactly 40 minutes with a quick release and it turned out rare to medium which is perfect for us.
Kind regards
Sam
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Patty says
Hello. When cooking a smaller roast do you reduce the cooking time? (My roast is between 2 and 3 lbs.) Thank you.
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi Patty,
Yes, We used a 3kg (6.6lbs i think) rib of beef and after the 40 minutes it was cooked to just how we liked it which is medium rare. So with yours been smaller i would always take the time down to 25 minutes depending on how you like your roast cooked. We always work with the rule that you can add more cooking time if it is not ready but you can never take it away 🙂
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Sam
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Liz says
The “Print” link appears not to be activated.
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi Liz
When i click on it it takes me to my print now page, are you waiting until the page loads fully as this can sometimes have an effect on if the button works or not.
Kind Regards
Sam
Kate says
Just wondering. Is it possible to make the Yorkshire pudding in the Instant Pot? Thank you for your helpful roast chart.
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi Kate,
We have not tried to cook yorkshire pudding in the instant pot and we think it could turn out just like a steamed pudding instead of the crispy yorlshire puddings we love. They need dry heat to rise like a cooker or we love to use our air fryer for them as they are very quick to cook.
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Sam
Jennifer says
Do you have to be brown it in a pan or oven to get that color?
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi Jennifer,
To get that colour on the beef you can use the saute setting on your instant pot before you cook it. Add some oil to your instant pot and place the beef topside down and leave for 5-10 minutes to brown on the top. Then just add the water and cook the beef for the specified amount of time.
Kind Regards
Sam
Karling says
When you have a roast with bone in, would you cook it just the same?
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi karling,
I would personally take 10 minutes of off the cooking time because when you have a bone in there is less meat to cook and when the bone heats up it cooks the meat as well.
Hope this helps.
Kind Regards
Sam
Stacey says
How long would you cook it if it was frozen?
Samantha and Dominic says
Hi Stacey,
I would not recommend cooking any roasting joint from frozen as they would not reach the required temperature inside the joint. But if you wanted to try may be doubling the cooking time but I wouldn’t recommend it ?
Kind regards
Dom
Cecelia Eiband says
The past 2 months I have been learning to use an instant pot. Still learning! Thank you for the boneless rib roast recipe. I covered it with a mix of herbs, used the saute setting to brown it, placed it on the rack & set the slow cook setting on LOW for 40 mins. I allowed it to release the pressure on its own as my husband does not care for med rare beef. It came out perfect AND very delicious!
RecipeThis.com says
Hi Cecelia
Really glad you enjoyed the recipe and getting to grips with your Instant Pot 🙂
Brett says
I have a 10 quart instant pot, my roast is approximately 8lbs. How should I adjust the time?
RecipeThis.com says
Hi Brett,
Ours was 2.5 kg yours is 3.6 kg, i would take the time up to 1 hour so you are increasing the time by a third 🙂 Ours was cooked to how we like it which is medium rare!
Phylis Ritscher says
Can you add vegetable in with the meat in the instant pot?
RecipeThis.com says
Hi Phylis
With the roast been cooked for so long the vegetables will become overcooked and mushy if you cook with the beef roast. Taking them out or adding them will effect the cooking of the joint of meat also so i would not recommend doing that 🙂
Carl says
Like!! Great beef roast recipe. Really thank you! Really Cool.