Instant Pot Mongolian Beef - Traditional - Dump and Go Dinner
Whether you are short on time, patience or both, this Instant Pot Mongolian Beef makes for a quick, stress-free dinner. Tender strips of flank steak are marinated in an umami-rich brown sugared soy sauce to yield a decadently savory meal that is easy to make.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds Flank Steak, Sliced
- ¼ cups Cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons Olive Oil
- ½ teaspoons peel and mince Ginger, Fresh
- ¾ cups Soy Sauce
- ¾ cups Brown Sugar
- ½ cups grate Carrot
- ⅓ cups dice Green Onion (Scallion)
- ¾ cups Water
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Coat steak with cornstarch.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
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- Prep from frozen
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- **Due to the nature of pressure cooking there is always room for inconsistency. The times given here are based on 4 servings fresh. If you are using more servings you may need to increase your cooking time.**
- Coat flank steak with cornstarch.
- Combine olive oil, ginger, soy sauce, water, brown sugar, carrots and green onions and add to inner pot.
- Place flank steak in inner pot.
- Lock cover into place and seal steam nozzle.
- Cook on high pressure for 35 minutes.
- Naturally release pressure for 5 minutes and quick release remaining pressure.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 4 Servings
- Serving Size
- about 6 ounces Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 530
- Total Fat
- 20g
- Saturated Fat
- 6g
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 111mg
- Sodium
- 2453mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 48g
- Fiber
- 1g
- Sugar
- 38g
- Protein
- 40g
- WW Freestyle
- 18
17 Comments
Join the discussionNot enough liquid to allow the IP to come to pressure
Actually Andy, the soy sauce and olive oil serves as the liquid in this recipe and it will come to pressure just fine based on our testing!
It is easy to miss the 3/4 C of water in the ingredient list because of the included note. I missed it the first time I read it!
I’ve made this twice, once in the slow cooker and it was fantastic, and now once in my stovetop pressure cooker, which was less than fantastic. I ended up with a pretty thick layer of burnt sauce on the bottom. It was still edible and pretty tasty, but nowhere near as good as the first time. Is there a reason that you don’t include cooking directions for stovetop pressure cookers? It would be nice for those of us still “kickin’ it old school” or who are waiting to bite the Instant Pot bullet?
Hi Erin, Thanks for your feedback. I’m so sorry this recipe didn’t turn out for you. We find that the Instant Pot is the most widely used and popular and our own personal favorite. We have used others and all of our freezer cooking directions are written for any electric pressure cooker. I hope you’ll try another recipe with us. Since you’re using a stove top pressure cooker, I might suggest reducing the cook time a bit since it burnt on the bottom. Do you also have a trivet you can place inside your pressure cooker? We’ve found that to be helpful when having issues with burning to place the meat on a trivet to avoid direct contact with the Pressure cooker. You can place cookware in an electric pressure cooker, I am not sure if this is the same for stove top pressure cookers. ~ OAMM
Got the dreaded “burn” error when I followed the instructions perfectly.
I’m so sorry! Check out this post for tips on how that can be avoided the next time: https://onceamonthmeals.com/blog/series/instant-pot/instant-pot-tips-tricks-201/
I have made this several times now. We love it, and everyone else we’ve served it to, does as well. Thanks!
I got the burn error too with my IP. I had reduced the sugar because we don’t eat much, and thought that would help but it burned anyways. I took everything out, cleaned off the bottom, added a bit more water and it’s cooking at pressure now.
I think those that failed missed the 3/4 C of water because of the note you included after carrots in the ingredient list! I missed it the first time I read it!
Yes, I completely missed the 3/4 cup water and thought the ingredient list ended with carrots.
I added the 3/4 cup but still it didn’t come to pressure and had a layer burnt on the bottom. I cleaned the pot and used pot in a pot method to finish. Mine was really thick in the suate part.
We’re very sorry that you had trouble with this recipe, but we’re glad to hear that the pot-in-pot method worked well for you – that’s a great tip! Please let us know if we can help you further troubleshoot the problems you initially had 🙂
$20 of meat in the trash! Burnt and husband described as “toxic”, now going for take out?
Amy, we are so sorry that it didn’t turn out! There are obviously several variables that can contribute to such an outcome in the pressure cooker; but regardless, we are so sorry! We hope you try this or another recipe despite the set back! Feel free to always message us if you have other problems or questions of any type!
Could other types of beef be used?
Absolutely! Feel free to sub according to your preference!