Texas Roadhouse Roadkill–Seasoned ground beef, mushrooms and onions with monterey jack cheese. An easy Instant Pot deconstructed version of the steakhouse favorite.
Instant Pot Texas Roadhouse Roadkill
If you’ve been to Texas Roadhouse you know there is something called Texas Roadkill on the menu. It is chopped steak smothered with sautéed onions, sautéed mushrooms and jack cheese. Despite the unappetizing name, it’s a tasty favorite. My at-home, easy Instant Pot version uses ground beef but still has all the flavor of the restaurant favorite. If you’re a fan of beef and mushrooms you’ll really love this dinner.
You can easily double this recipe! You may want to so you can have some leftovers the next day. This dinner tastes good served over a piece of toast or some mashed potatoes. If you want to keep the dinner lower carb then try serving over mashed cauliflower.
Ingredients/Substitution Ideas
- Lean ground beef–or any other ground meat that you like
- Onion–or shallot
- Beef or Chicken Broth–or water and Better than Bouillon
- Mushrooms
- Lawry’s seasoned salt–or another brand of seasoning salt
- Worcestershire sauce
- Liquid smoke
- Black pepper
- Butter
- Monterey jack cheese–or provolone or mozzarella
Steps
Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the ground beef and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown the beef for about 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease.
Pour in the broth and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot.
Dump in the mushrooms. Dump in the seasoned salt, Worcestershire, liquid smoke, pepper and butter.
Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 3 minutes. When time is up move valve to venting and remove the lid.
Stir in the cheese.
Scoop onto plates and serve. We like to serve over toast or mashed potatoes.
Notes/Tips
- Serve over toast or mashed potatoes. Serve with some green beans or another vegetable.
- This recipe can be gluten free if you use gluten free Worcestershire sauce.
- This recipe is fairly low carb.
- How can this come to pressure with only ¼ cup of broth? The mushrooms put off a lot of liquid that helps bring the pot to pressure.
- I used my 6 quart Instant Pot*. You can also make this in a 3 or 8 quart pot.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container* in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Other recipes you can make with monterey jack cheese are Instant Pot Heavenly Casserole and Instant Pot Crazy Good Casserole.
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Texas Roadhouse Roadkill
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 minutes
- Total Time: 23 minutes
- Yield: 3–4 servings 1x
Description
Seasoned ground beef, mushrooms and onions with monterey jack cheese. An easy Instant Pot deconstructed version of the steakhouse favorite.
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 cup sliced or diced onion
- 1/4 cup broth
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 1 tsp Lawry’s seasoned salt
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- Dash of liquid smoke
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 3/4 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
Instructions
- Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the ground beef and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown the beef for about 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease.
- Pour in the broth and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot.
- Dump in the mushrooms. Dump in the seasoned salt, Worcestershire, liquid smoke, pepper and butter.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 3 minutes. When time is up move valve to venting and remove the lid.
- Stir in the cheese.
- Scoop onto plates and serve. We like to serve over toast or mashed potatoes.
- Category: Beef
- Method: Instant Pot
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Loved it! Used pepper jack instead of Monterey Jack just because. Accidently spilled extra Worcestershire sauce in the pot.Ate it over biscuits. Delicious,
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yum biscuits sound great!
what do we do with the bacon?
If you choose to add bacon to this recipe I would stir in cooked crumbled bacon when you add in the cheese.
Recipe looks great! Thanks! I’m just wondering of 1/4 cup broth is enough liquid for the IP.
Never mind & I’m sorry! I just saw your note about the mushrooms letting off liquid. Thanks! – Lauren
Can’t wait to try this one, Jeff’s gonna love it, especially when I tell him the name. I remember the first time I made him stroganoff…. put the plate in front of him & he said, “so, what’d you scrape up off the road to make this stuff?” If he hadn’t been smiling when he said it I’m pretty sure he’d have been wearing it instead of eating it. Be back with stars! (I’m so glad I found your website)
haha he’s hilarious! I love his commentary!
I regularly get this at Texas Roadhouse when I have the patience to wait for a table, even with call ahead. This was just as good. I had to cook the mushrooms separately because my wife of 50 years doesn’t like mushrooms (yea, I don’t know how our marriage has lasted this long)..
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Oh the mushroom haters…they ruin everything lol. I have a mushroom hater in my family too.
love your recipes, and my instant pot. what happened to the BACON in Texas Roadkill ??
Oh shoot! Should have added that on top!