Dazzle your dinner table with this pressure cooker Korean beef stew. Using a Pressure King Pro or Instant Pot, this diced beef recipe is ready in minutes.
An easy and quick way to cook braising, casserole or stewing steak to a delicious melt in the mouth texture.
Bring the best Korean style meal using diced beef to the table in minutes!
How to make a Korean Beef stew?
We give you step by step instructions for how to cook this Korean dish. From browning the beef, how to make a Korean sauce from soy sauce, garlic, chilli and ginger and beef stock. How long to pressure cook a beef stew for, and how to thicken the gravy with flour.
Check out the video above. Or jump down to the Korean beef recipe card for full details and ingredients need to create this pressure cooker diced beef recipe.
Jump to RecipeMeasurements given in UK & US measurement.
What beef to use?
You can use cheap cuts of beef, such as braising, casserole or stewing steak for this Korean beef stew recipe.
In the UK supermarkets, you can find packs of precut beef. Simply labelled as diced beef that needs to be slow cooked. This is what we have used for our Korean beef as seen above.
In the US you want to look for chuck or brisket.
Do I need to sear diced beef before pressure cooking?
Yes searing diced beef is an important step before pressure cooking. Coating it with flour and searing helps in two ways.
Firstly it helps caramelise and crisp up the outside of each chunk of meat. This helps keep the beef in chunks rather than from breaking down into the stew. Secondly, the flavours released will add extra taste to the beef stew.
Why use a pressure cooker to cook stew?
We use the pressure cooker to cook this beef stew as it lowers the cooking time. Diced beef takes 2-3 hours in the oven, however only takes 25 minutes in the pressure cooker.
This why we recommend using the pressure cooker to give you perfect melt in the mouth beef in a fraction of the time.
This Korean beef stew is the answer to what to make with diced beef that won't take hours!
What pressure cooker to use?
If you are in the market for a pressure cooker, I can highly recommend the Pressure King Pro or the Instant Pot. I have also included the Amazon basic version, which I have not tried. But reading the reviews it seems a good buy!
We use ours a couple of times a week for so many different recipes, for example, fish, meat, vegetables, stew, soup, rice, pasta, desserts, cakes and bread.
How long to pressure cook beef stew?
Once the diced beef has been seared and all the ingredients have been added. Cook the beef in the liquid for 13 minutes with the valve shut. After which you should leave the valve shut to natural release for 10-15 minutes to allow it to finish cooking.
How to thicken pressure cooker stew?
To thicken the gravy of stew, simply mix flour with equal measure of water. Pour into the stew and bring to the boil on fry/saute mode.
This is an optional step it is personal preference, in the UK we like our stews thick!
What to serve with Korean beef?
Try topping your pressure cooker Korean Beef stew with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. To give a crunch and nutty flavour as well as finely sliced spring onion.
We have served here with steamed basmati rice.
We have also served it with our jasmine rice and a simple cucumber salad before.
The beef is so tender, comparable to beef that has been slow-cooked.
Other cooking methods?
Of course, not everyone has a pressure cooker, fear not, we have included how to cook this diced beef recipe in the oven and how to make this Korean beef stew in a slow cooker.
You will just need to allow extra cooking time. See recipe card below!
Storage & Reheating
Store any leftovers in a airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.
Reheat in the microwave or in a saucepan, until piping hot throughout.
📖 Step by Step Recipe
Pressure Cooker Korean Beef
Equipment
Ingredients
Step 1 ingredients
- 2 tablespoon sesame oil
- 800 g Diced beef (1.8lb) braising, casserole, stewing steak, chuck or brisket any beef suitable for slow cooking
- 2 tablespoon Plain Flour
- 2 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 100 ml Reduced Salt Soy sauce (6 tbsp) we used reduced salt
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger or 2 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
- 3 teaspoon Garlic puree or 2 garlic cloves crushed
- 2 teaspoon Chilli puree or 2 chilli chopped very finely
- 50 g Brown sugar (⅓ cup)
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 300 ml Beef Stock (1 ¼ cup) we used a rich beef knorr stock pot
To thicken stew gravy (optional)
- 2 tablespoon Flour mixed with 2 tablespoon water
- sesame seeds optional
- spring onions optional
Instructions
Pressure Cooker method
- Coat beef with flour2 tablespoon Plain Flour, 800 g Diced beef (1.8lb)
- Select Fry/Saute mode and sear meat in seasame oil until just browned on the outside.2 tablespoon sesame oil
- Add garlic and chilli puree, stir in and turn off pressure cooker.3 teaspoon Garlic puree, 2 teaspoon Chilli puree
- Add rice wine vinegar, this will make it easy to scrap off any residue from bottom of pan.2 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- Add soy sauce and ginger powder100 ml Reduced Salt Soy sauce (6 tbsp), 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- Add brown sugar, pepper and stock50 g Brown sugar (⅓ cup), ½ teaspoon ground black pepper, 300 ml Beef Stock (1 ¼ cup)
- Stir through
- Select meat / high pressure setting, set timer for 13 minutes. When finished cooking, allow 10 -15 minutes for natural release of pressure
- Make sure valve is in closed position to pressure cook.
- Optional, to thicken stew, in a small bowl, whisk the flour with water.2 tablespoon Flour mixed with 2 tablespoon water
- Pour into the Korean beef, change settings on the pressure cooker to fry mode, bring to the boil, this will thicken up the sauce within 2 minutes.
- Serve with rice and sprinkle with spring onion and sesame seed.sesame seeds, spring onions
Slow Cooker Method
- As above, sear meat first then transfer into slow cooker, put the slow cooker on a low heat and cook for 6 hrs
- When the 6 hrs is up check the beef is soft and tender. Change settings to high heat and stir all together for around 5 mins to thicken up the sauce
Oven Method
- Preheat the oven at 180c°, 160° fan, Gas 4
- As above, sear meat first then transfer into a lidded casserole dish.
- Put the lid on the casserole dish, place in the oven for 2 ½ hours, then add flour and water into the casserole dish give it a good stir, place back in the oven for a further 30 minutes for the sauce to thicken.
Video
Nutrition
This post was originally published on 10/10/2019 and has been modified on 17/06/2021 with updated step by steps, a new video for this pressure cooker Korean beef stew recipe idea using diced beef.
If you like this pressure cooker recipe and looking for more ideas using beef try our Thai Beef Massaman or our Chicken Biryani both created in our pressure king pro, can also be created in instant pot.
Debbie Roberts
Really tasty dish. Will definitely be making this again.
Luke and Kay
Thank you for sharing your experience with Pressure Cooker Korean Beef Stew, Debbie! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the dish and plan to make it again. We hope to see your rating again in the future if you decide to try another one of our recipes - we'd love to know how it goes. 🙂
Julie S
Made this tonight and it was absolutely delicious. I make Korean pork which is slightly different but we love both equally. I cooked the shin beef for 40 mins though and it was so tender - perfect. Thank you.
Kay
Hi Julie, thank you so much for trying our Pressure Cooker Korean Beef Stew! We're glad to hear that you enjoyed it and that you found the recipe easy to follow. We love hearing feedback like this, it makes all of our hard work worth it. 🙂
Sofia
When are you using the sesame oil? It got very stuck to the bottom of my instant pot ... Maybe had to put before doing the sauté?
Luke
Thank you for your comment Sofia 🙂
Our apologies we did miss that on the recipe card, and now it has been corrected, but I hope you enjoyed the recipe and thank you for the 4* rating much appreciated 😉
Amanda
This is so easy to make and absolutely delicious. It has become a regular on our family dinner list. Any leftovers we have (which is rare) goes well in bao buns.
Kay
Thank you so much, Amanda 🙂
nice to hear you thought I pressure cooker Korean beef stew and your family are enjoying for the one of the weekly meals 🙂
Leftovers in Bao buns sounds awesome 😉
Mihaela | https://theworldisanoyster.com/
Seriously drooling here! I just realised how rarely I use my pressure cooker, although it makes delicious foods in a very short time. This is tonight's dinner; thanks for the recipe!:)
Kay
Thanks, Mihaela
I hope you enjoy our recipe for tonight's dinner; let us know how its goes?
Bon appetite!!
Oscar
This was amazing. I love anything with ginger and this hit the spot.
Kay
Thank you, Oscar
That's just what we like to hear 🙂
Really glad you like the instant pot Korean beef 😉
Jeri
I love using my Instant Pot, especially on days when I don't have a lot of time to make supper, or it's too hot to cook. I made this for supper tonight, and it was awesome! It had so much flavor, and the meat was so tender! I served it with basmati rice and roasted broccoli. Delicious! I will certainly make this again! Thanks for the great recipe!
Kay
Hi Jeri
This is a perfect, quick dinner with so much flavour, especially when you ain't got a lot of time to cook 🙂
We are so pleased you liked our recipe and thanks you for the comment, We always appreciate it 😉
Kayla DiMaggio
Oh my goodness! This looks delicious! My husband loves Korean beef and it is supposed to be 109 today so the instant pot would be the perfect way to have dinner! Thank you so much for sharing!
Kay
Thanks, Kayla
It's very hot here at the moment in the UK, it makes cooking dinner so much easier in the pressure cooker 🙂
Hope you enjoy the Korean Beef recipe
Audrey
This was so EASY to make in my instapot! Thanks so much.
Kay
Thanks, Audrey
So pleased you liked the instant pot Korean beef stew 🙂
everything moroccan
woow seriously i wanted to make it i love korean food but there is a little problem i can't use the rice wine vinegar is it okey to not use it??
Kay
Thanks for your comment!
I would suggest trying White wine vinegar or maybe sherry vinegar
Hope you like this recipe, we loved it!!
Colleen | Bakes & Blunders
Yes please! So easy and so tasty. Can't wait to try it 😀
Kay
Hi Colleen
Thanks for your comment
Hope you enjoy the recipe as much as we did!!
Leilani
This sounds delicious! I will definitely try this soon, thanks!
Kay
Hi Leilani
Thanks for the comment
Hope you like the recipe if you make it at home.
Enjoy!!