Instant Pot beef and bean stew is an easy one pot meal. This filling and delicious Four Bean beef stew is full of rich flavor, fiber, protein and nutrients.

Four Bean stew is an easy dinner is quick to whip up in your instant Pot. This delicious dinner is filling and a good budget friendly meal. This stew makes great leftovers.

Hearty winter stews like this one are SO much simpler when made in your electric pressure cooker.

The Instant Pot is bringing dried beans recipes back into my kitchen. I can now cook them up from UNSOAKED to perfectly done cooked beans in about a half hour.

But much faster cooking time is not the only reason to make dried beans recipes in your instant pot.

Pressure cooker beef stews maximize the healthy nutrients in your beef stew meat recipes and save a few bucks.

Our Instant pot six gun chili recipe and  Instant pot bean and sausage soup recipe also use unsoaked dried beans that are completely cooked in the instant pot in 30 minutes or so. Make your beef stew bean

Dried Bean recipes are VERY healthy for you and make a great bean stew recipe. 

All Beans are full of healthy carbs with a TON of fiber and nutrients. Adding  beans to a hearty stew makes a lot of sense. We ate this stew with NO other carbs. It really is tasty, healthy and filling enough to stand alone as your lunch or dinner.

This article by SFGate explains why dried beans are better nutritionally than canned. The added salt in canned beans results in high sodium levels which can be unhealthy. Dried beans do not contain any added salt.

How to Cook Dry Beans in the Instant Pot:

One more thing about this new frontier of cooking. I’m making my OWN dried bean blend.  It’s easy to mix up your family’s personal favorites. I just bought a bunch of different beans of about the same size and put them together into this pretty mix.

All you need to keep in mind is your beans in your personal blend should have about the same cooking times so they come out of the instant pot perfectly cooked.

Turn this recipe into Instapot beef bean soup. Simply reduce the stew meat chunks to a small size that will fit handily on a spoon.  Then dilute with more liquids to your desired soupy consistency. 

Here’s How to cook beef stew in the instant pot. IT’S SO EASY!

• After you finish cooking the beans remove them to a separate bowl.
• use the saute function and brown the beef chunks with the beef stew seasonings.
• add in the remaining ingredients.
• Set the pot for stew and go take a break.

Instapot Beef Stew is Full of chunks of delicious, hearty beef. This recipe has 42 % of your daily protein needs in just one meal. It also accounts for 20 % of your carbs.

Beef stew ingredients are all pretty healthy if you keep the sodium content down. So look for low sodium cans in you worry about that. And the dry beans will reduce the sodium in this recipe a lot. Just don’t add extra salt while cooking them.

But they are really healthy carbs with LOTS of fiber that will do your body good. All that and it’s naturally low in fat too. Win win!

I bought my 6 quart DUO Instant Pot  and then I bought a Glass Lid. I love using them together for saute’ and slow cooking. The glass lid also makes storing the leftovers in the fridge a breeze. I’ve linked some of my favorite instant pot accessories below for you.

Instant Pot Bean Stew Recipe with Beef

This is NOT a set it and forget it recipe. This recipe is done in a couple of different stages. But it is an easy beef stew. Promise!

• The Instant Pot will take good care of you.
• Each step is no fuss and you will have lots of down time to do other things with your day.
• I put approximate times into the different stages. As you can see this instant pot beef bean soup recipe goes pretty quick with lots of rests for you. Enjoy.