Description
An easy dinner made with seasoned ground beef, corn and a savory onion gravy served over creamy homemade mashed potatoes, all cooked in one pot!
Ingredients
Scale
- 16 oz lean ground beef
- 1 cup diced onion
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 packet dry onion soup mix
- 2 pounds red potatoes, cut into cubes
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- Salt and pepper
- 1 cup frozen corn
- 2 Tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
- Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the beef and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown for 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease.
- Pour in the water and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot. Sprinkle the onion soup mix on top of the beef, don’t stir.
- Add potato cubes into a steamer basket and drop the basket into the Instant Pot on top of the meat.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set manual/pressure cook button to 10 minutes. When time is up move valve to venting and remove the lid.
- Dump the potatoes out of the steamer basket into a bowl. Mash the potatoes. Stir in the butter, milk and salt and pepper to taste.
- Stir the corn into the beef mixture.
- Make a cornstarch slurry by stirring the cornstarch together with 2 Tbsp of cold water until smooth. Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. Stir the slurry into the pot to thicken the gravy.
- To serve scoop mashed potatoes on a plate and top with a ladleful of the beef and onion gravy.
Notes
I used my silicone steamer basket*
- Category: Beef
- Method: Instant Pot
