Top Notch Casserole–thinly sliced beef drizzled with a flavorful homemade sesame dressing and served on top of rice or noodles. Add in some bell peppers and cabbage for color and crunch!
Top Notch Casserole
I have never seen my food disappear so fast! My family ate this until it was gone. They all said it was a top notch dinner!
Let me just say that I am not a fan of buying ingredients that you’ll only use for one recipe. However the chili garlic sauce I purchased for the sesame dressing was worth the 2 bucks. The dressing is sooooo good! And you’ll have leftovers you can use on salad or another meal in the future.
The meat option I chose to use for these Instant Pot Korean BBQ Beef Bowls was an eye of round roast. I had success with it on the steak bomb sandwiches and knew that it would work well here too. It’s different from a normal roast I’d typically use in the Instant Pot (like a chuck roast) because it’s very lean. You only need to use a 5 minute pressure cook time but it’s the 25 minute natural pressure release that allows the meat to sit and continue to cook through. The middle of the roast will be pink but it will still be cooked to proper temperature (145°F). The meat is then sliced as thin as possible with a sharp serrated bread knife. One 365 Days reader said, “I used my electric knife (that I only use on holidays) to cut it super thin!” If I had an electric knife I’d be doing that too! You’ll be surprised at how much meat you can get out of a 2 pound roast! Usually with roast it shrinks down so much but not with eye of round. Plus it fairly inexpensive. Use the leftovers in nachos, sandwiches, stir fry, etc. (This recipe is adapted from Pinch of Yum.)
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Top Notch Casserole
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes (plus 25 minute NPR)
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
Description
Thinly sliced beef drizzled with a flavorful homemade sesame dressing and served on top of rice or noodles. Add in some bell peppers and cabbage for color and crunch!
Ingredients
For the beef:
- 2 pound eye of round roast
- Kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper
- 2 Tbsp canola or vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups beef broth
For the dressing:
- 2/3 cup low sodium soy sauce
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 1 Tbsp fresh minced gingerroot
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp chili garlic sauce (find in the Asian section at grocery store)
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
For the bowls:
- Hot cooked rice (scroll down to see how to cook rice using pot-in-pot method)
- Chopped cabbage
- Thinly sliced red bell pepper
- Sesame seeds
Instructions
- Pat roast dry with paper towels. Press kosher salt and pepper into the meat on all sides.
- Turn Instant Pot to sauté setting. When display says HOT add in the oil and swirl it around. Place roast into Instant Pot and let brown on one side for 5 minutes and then turn over and brown for another 5 minutes. Move the roast out of the pot. Pour broth into pot and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Add the roast back into the pot.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 25 minutes (yes 25 minutes). Remove the lid. Place meat on a cutting board and let rest for 5-10 minutes.
- Use a serrated bread knife (or electric knife) to carve meat as thin as possible (against the grain).
- Whisk all the dressing ingredients together well.
- Assemble bowls by piling rice into a bowl, topping with some cabbage, red bell pepper, sesame seeds and finally the thinly sliced meat. Drizzle the dressing over the top and toss well. Taste test and add more dressing as needed. Eat and enjoy!
- Category: Beef
- Method: Instant Pot
Can I Make The Rice At The Same Time?
Pot-in-pot rice is a method of cooking rice in a separate container placed inside the Instant Pot. This method allows you to cook rice and the beef at the same time. Here’s how you can cook rice at the same time as the beef.
Ingredients:
- 2 cup of white rice
- 3 cups of water
Instructions:
- Add the rice to a heatproof container that fits inside the Instant Pot (I often use this stainless steel pan*). Add in the rice and water.
- Add the beef ingredients into the Instant Pot.
- Place the heatproof container with the rice on top of the beef, using a tall trivet* to keep it elevated.
- Close the Instant Pot lid and set the valve to sealing. Cook as stated in the recipe card.
- Carefully remove the heatproof container with the rice from the Instant Pot. It will be perfectly cooked!
Note: You can use long grain white rice, converted rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice. Brown rice uses a longer cooking time (22 minutes) and won’t work for (pot-in-pot) this particular recipe.
*Karen Petersen is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
Can you reheat in microwave? Want to meal prep it
Yes! This reheats great in the microwave for meal prep. I recommend reheating the beef and rice separately and adding the dressing after so the meat stays tender.
Hi Karen is it possibl to make this in a slowcooker? As I don’t have a pressure cooker cheers anna
I would like to know as well.