It’s taco time! Make beef tacos your who family will love with this easy Instant Pot Taco Meat with real food ingredients and packed full of flavor. Great for batch cooking, but I doubt there will be no leftovers with this recipe!
One of my favorite dishes to make for my family is tacos. We eat it at least once a week on Taco Tuesday, of course. And really there’s no reason not to because I have the easiest recipe to make it. This Instant Pot Taco Meat recipe is made with ground beef (substitute ground turkey if you like) and has a layer of umami flavor that will have your kids coming back for seconds and thirds. We never have leftovers when we make Instant Pot Tacos.
How To Make Instant Pot Taco Meat – Step by Step
1. Gather your ingredients together.
2. Turn on the Saute button on the Instant Pot, and add oil and dd ground beef and cook until lightly brown.
3. Add garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, oregano, salt, black pepper, and chopped cilantro. Stir until mixed well.
4. Turn off Saute function. Add broth and salsa verde. Put lid on and close pressure value. Select the Manual high pressure / pressure cooking for 10 minutes.
5. When Instant Pot beeps, turn the pressure value and let it depressurize for a Quick Release. Check the consistency of the meat. You might want to put the Instant Pot on Saute mode to cook the beef a bit longer to reduce the liquid. Add garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, oregano, salt, black pepper, and chopped cilantro. Stir until mixed well.
6. Open the lid and stir well, and add lime juice. Scoop out using a ladle into a bowl. Garnish with cilantro and serve up with your favorite toppings like shredded cheese, sour cream, and corn tortillas.
Benefits of an Instant Pot
Let’s talk about the Instant Pot. It’s a 7-in-1 Multi-Functional Cooker – including a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, saute/browning, yogurt maker, steamer and warmer. Plus, it has a stainless steel cooking pot and steam rack – LOVE that!
If you’re just getting started with the Instant Pot, check out my quick start guide Top 10 Instant Pot Tips and Tricks You Need to Know.
An Easy Taco Recipe
This Instant Pot so easy to make. Just start out browning the beef a bit, and then add the seasoning spices. Pressuring cooking it in the Instant Pot helps to lock in the flavors, so it tastes like it’s been cooking for hours in a slow cooker but you’ll be able to get dinner on the table in about 30 minutes.
Paleo and Gluten Free Taco Options
Serve with lettuce cups for a Paleo option, or regular corn taco shells or corn tortillas for a healthy gluten-free option. Top with cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, red peppers, or any of your favorite taco bar toppings.
Instant Pot Tacos – A Party Favorite!
I love to make Instant Pot beef tacos when we’ve got company over for dinner – friends, family, friends of my kids (aka it can feed an army of neighborhood kids and teenagers – just double the recipe). It’s such a crowd favorite, especially when we set up the taco bar. Take that, Chipotle…
Top Tips for Instant Pot Tacos
- If your family likes their taco meat a little more or less spicy, feel free to adjust the spice levels. It will not affect the cooking time.
- If you are cooking for a smaller crowd, you can easily half the recipe. If you are cooking for a large gathering or would like to freeze any leftovers, feel free to double the recipe. Because it cooks the food at pressure, there is no need to adjust the cooking time when you change the size of the recipe. It will take a longer or shorter time for the Instant Pot to come to pressure, but this happens on its own.
- Serve with lettuce for a paleo option or gluten free taco shells for a gluten free option.
- You can freeze the cooked ground beef. Once ground beef is fully cooked, place in a bowl and cool in the refrigerator. Store in the freezer for up to 4 months.
More Instant Pot Meals
- Instant Pot Taco Soup
- Homemade Taco Seasoning Recipe
- Top 50 Gluten-Free and Paleo Instant Pot Recipes {Pressure Cooker}
- Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup
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Make beef tacos your who family will love with this easy Instant Pot Taco Meat with real food ingredients and packed full of flavor.
- 1 lb ground beef
- 2 tbsp avocado oil or ghee
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 cup chicken or beef broth or stock
- 6 oz salsa verde
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp cilantro
Gather your ingredients together.
Turn on the Saute button on the Instant Pot, and add oil and dd ground beef and cook until lightly brown.
Add garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, oregano, salt, black pepper, and chopped cilantro. Stir until mixed well.
Turn off Saute function. Add broth and salsa verde. Put lid on and close pressure value. Select the Manual high pressure / pressure cooking for 10 minutes. It takes about 12 minutes for the Instant Pot to come to pressure, so add that to your total time.
When Instant Pot beeps, turn the pressure value and let it depressurize for a Quick Release. Check the consistency of the meat. You might want to put the Instant Pot on Saute mode to cook the beef a bit longer to reduce the liquid.
Open the lid and stir well. Scoop out using a ladle into a bowl. Garnish with cilantro and serve up with your favorite toppings like shredded cheese, sour cream, and corn tortillas.
The actual cook time is 20 minutes in the Instant Pot but it takes about 12-15 minutes to come to pressure to start cooking.
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Hi.. i see diced tomatoes in the instructions but not in the ingredients list. What size can if tomatoes? Thanks! Making this right now and it smells wonderful already!!
So sorry – it’s a typo. You can add diced tomatoes as part of the taco bar. I just fixed the typo.
The recipe mentions adding diced tomatoes, corn and black beans after you saute. Do you add a whole can of diced tomatoes with juice? I don’t want to have taco meat with too much liquid. Thanks, this looks delicious!
You can do either but if you prefer less liquid do it without the juice.
This looks so easy and delicious!