Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup is a quick, easy recipe that tastes as if you spent hours making it. With melt-in-your-mouth tender beef and plenty of delicious vegetables, it’s sure to be a family favorite!
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This classic Vegetable Soup is packed with healthy ingredients and it’s super easy to make in an Instant Pot. Once your Instant Pot is fully pressurized, the soup only takes 10 minutes to finish cooking.
Homemade Vegetable Soup is full of veggies, tender beef, and flavor. Plus, it’s comforting and good for you.
I grew up eating this soup, and let me tell you, it pairs perfectly with buttered crusty bread. Instant Pot Vegetable Soup is the perfect meal to make on a cold day, when you need help warming up. It’s a favorite family meal too, and a wonderful way to get children to eat more veggies.
If you’d prefer a stew, try my similar, heartier recipe for Instant Pot Homemade Beef Stew.
Why This Recipe Works
You can swap your favorite vegetables into this recipe pretty easily. I do, however, recommend adding in smaller, more delicate vegetables after the pressure cooker has done it’s thing. For example, I mix in frozen peas and corn afterwards, as you will see in the instructions below.
Classic vegetable soup is a childhood favorite that adults love as well. This Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup recipe is a great recipe to help get your kids to eat more vegetables.
This recipe is super quick to make, yet tastes as if it’s been simmering on the stove top for hours.
How to Make Vegetable Beef Soup In An Instant Pot
Ingredients
- Beef: cut into bite size pieces. You can usually find stew meat already cut at your local grocery store. You can also cut it yourself. Beef chuck roast works great in this recipe.
- Fresh Vegetables: potatoes, carrots, onion
- Frozen Vegetables: I use a combination of corn, peas and green beans
- Garlic
- Tomato Sauce
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Beef Stock
- Dried Herbs: basil and thyme
The entire recipe and instructions can also be found in the recipe card at the bottom of this post. You can also print the recipe from the card, if needed.
Prep!
There is a little bit of prep work for this recipe. You’ll need to chop the onion and mince the garlic. You will also need to dice the potato and cut the carrots.
Chef’s Tip: try to keep all of the vegetables roughly the same size so that they all cook evenly. The carrot slices should be about 1/4-inch thick.
Season the beef with salt and pepper.
Create!
Turn your Instant Pot onto sauté and add the olive oil.
Add the seasoned beef to the hot pot. Cook until just browned, about 3-4 minutes.
Mix in the onion, garlic, and carrots. Cook an additional 2-3 minutes.
Add all of the remaining ingredients except for the frozen mixed vegetables.
Chef’s Tip: wait until the soup is done cooking before adding any additional salt and pepper.
Put the lid on the Instant Pot and set to cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.
Once it’s done cooking, let it do a natural release for about 20 minutes. Then, turn the valve to do a final quick release.
Open the lid and immediately stir in the frozen vegetables. Taste and season with additional salt and pepper, if necessary.
Present!
Ladle soup into individual bowls topped with fresh parsley.
Tips and Techniques
- Try to cut all of the vegetables roughly the same size so that they all cook evenly.
- Wait until the soup is done cooking before adding any additional salt and pepper.
- Store leftover soup in an air-tight container in the refrigerator. Use within 3-4 days.
FAQ’s
What Cut Of Beef Is Best For Vegetable Beef Soup?
You can often find already cut pieces of stew meat at your local grocery store. If you can’t find it already prepared, the cut of beef that work best for Vegetable Beef Soup is chuck roast.
Do You Need To Brown Beef Before Cooking It In An Instant Pot?
Browning the beef before cooking it in an Instant Pot actually brings out more flavor. While this step can be skipped, is not recommended.
Can You Freeze Vegetable Beef Soup?
Yes, you can easily freeze Vegetable Beef Soup. Allow the soup to cool before adding it to freezer bags or airtight containers. Place in the freezer and use within 4-6 months. Be aware that the texture may change, especially that of the potatoes, when thawed and reheated.
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Instant Pot Vegetable Beef Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pound beef (cut into bite size pieces)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 small onion (finely diced)
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 cup carrots (sliced about 1/4-inch thick)
- 8 ounces tomato sauce
- 4 cups beef stock
- 2 cups potatoes (diced into 1/2-inch cubes)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables (corn, green beans and peas work great)
Instructions
- Add the olive oil to the Instant Pot and set it to sauté.1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- Season the beef cubes with salt and pepper, then add to the hot pot. Cook until just browned, about 3-4 minutes.1 pound beef, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Add the onion, garlic, and carrots and cook an additional 2-3 minutes.1 small onion, 2 cloves garlic, 1 cup carrots
- Add all of the remaining ingredients except for the frozen vegetables. Put the lid on the Instant Pot and set to cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.8 ounces tomato sauce, 4 cups beef stock, 2 cups potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, 1/2 teaspoon dried basil, 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- Once the Instant Pot is done cooking, let it release naturally for about 20 minutes. Then, turn the valve to do a final quick release.
- Remove the lid and stir in the frozen vegetables.2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
- Taste and season with salt and pepper, if necessary.
- Serve with fresh, chopped parsley, if desired.
Notes
Tips and Techniques
- Try to cut all of the vegetables roughly the same size so that they all cook evenly.
- Wait until the soup is done cooking before adding any additional salt and pepper.
- Store leftover soup in an air-tight container in the refrigerator. Use within 3-4 days.
Nutrition
This recipe was originally published on July 26, 2018. It was updated with more thorough instructions, tips, techniques, and FAQ’s in November 2019. New images and more detailed information was added in February 2022.
Amelia says
This was very easy to make and turned out great. I did not have any tomato sauce so I threw in a can of diced tomatoes instead and also added celery.
Lauren Vavala says
Thank you! Glad to hear the tomatoes worked out too!
– Lauren
Liz says
Beef stew is one of our favorites! I love how you can add various types of vegetables, really whatever you have on hand! I’m a sucker for making soups in my crock pot. I need to try this recipe in my instant pot! Sounds delicious!
Ashleigh says
Super easy and really good! Made some substitutions (chicken instead of beef broth and marinara sauce instead of tomato sauce to use up left overs and coconut aminos and use plum Vinegar instead of worchestershire due to intolerance). This is going to be on my fall/winter meal rotation 🙂 thanks for posting!
Lauren Vavala says
Hi Ashleigh! Thanks for commenting and rating the recipe, I really appreciate it and I’m so happy to hear that it’s now a regularly for you too!!
– Lauren
Thomas says
Looks so delicious and filling. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
DIANE says
This soup is wonderful and very easy to make. Love making soups, but time was a huge factor for me as I had to make 11 quarts to put in Christmas baskets for some families at church. I have a larger size instant pot so I was able to double this recipe no problem. The double batch made 4 quarts of soup. I didn’t have fresh garlic so I used pampered chef garlic rub, maybe 1 1/2 teaspoons. Thank you for this recipe!
Abbe@This is How I Cook says
SOunds like a great recipe. Hearty and perfect for those still chilly days. Thanks for sharing!
Kristina says
Totally love vegetable beef soup, even better made in the IP, so quick and easy!
Lauren says
Agreed! I love the Instant pot!
Danielle says
Yum! I got an Instant Pot recently – this looks like the perfect weeknight dinner!
Shashi at SavorySpin says
That beef looks so darn tender! That IP is magical indeed!!
Shashi at SavorySpin says
That beef looks so darn tender! That IP is magical indeed!
Noelle says
I just bought an instant pot and this was my first recipe in it! Whole family loved it
Lauren says
So happy to hear it!
Adrienne says
Is there any different instruction is the beef is frozen?
Lauren says
Hi Adrienne! I haven’t made this recipe with frozen beef, but I did some research and it looks like it should work just fine without any modifications to the recipe. I wouldn’t add a large cut of beef to the pot though, just the stew meat should be fine. I hope this helps – Lauren
Adrienne says
Thank you! It worked like a charm. Delicious!!!!
Lauren says
Yay! Glad to hear it went great! – Lauren
Paula says
This was an excellent soup, and so easy. I made some changes based on what I had on hand – even without the green beans or the peas, it was good (though will try it with them next time). I used one can of diced tomatoes for the tomato sauce, chopping them up more finely. Reduced Worcestershire to 1 Tbs which was about right for us. I cut the beef into small, 1/2″ cubes. Simply amazing that at that size it comes out done and tender in just 10m. Thank you – will look forward to checking out more of your recipes.
Lauren says
Hi Paula! Thanks so much for stopping back to say how the recipe went. The Instant Pot is amazing, isn’t it?! I’m so glad you loved the recipe 🙂
– Lauren
Traci says
Hoorayyy for the IP…and vegetable beef soup! Everyone needs a recipe like this in their back pocket for Instant Pot cooking, especially with back-to-school right around the corner. Just pinned this beauty!
Jessie says
I love this and I have been looking for new recipes to try for my instant pot. Thank you for sharing!
Tina Dawson says
This is such a gorgeous soup with so little effort. Love the color of the broth!
Laura says
Great recipe, I love beef cooked in a pressure cooker. I don’t understand why some people still hesitate.
Cookilicious says
I have just discovered Instant Pot and all recipe ideas are welcome. This soup sounds hearty and comforting.