This Instant Pot BBQ beef Recipe Comes out so Yummy! (2024)

This Instant Pot BBQ beef recipe comes out so yummy! Super tender roast shredded with tangy barbecue sauce is great as sliders or over rice for dinner!

Have you tried Instant Pot BBQ beef yet??!! It’s great for dinner, potluck dish, and a must have appetizer when throwing a Super Bowl football party. (participant in the amazon program, affiliate links present)

Instant Pot Shredded BBQ Beef

Like I said, I used a round roast. I’ve used chuck roast to make this too if that is what I have on hand. We’ve even done this same method to make pork butt in Instant Pot. It’s just that easy. You see we buy half of a cow at the beginning of each year so we have A LOT of beef to use year round.

I like having several choices of the sauces to use to tenderize each one to change up the flavors. If and when I can just swap out the bottle used there are a multitude of choices. Serve with rice for dinner and done.

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If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:

• Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
• Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
  • This is a great InstaPot cookbook and a set of wooden utensils are great to grab too.
  • I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
    • You should still deglaze pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.

For reference, this is the pressure cooker I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.

Easy BBQ Beef Recipe

Yes you could make this same thing on the stovetop over a really long period of time until it is tender enough to shred. The cook time just takes a lot longer but can be done in something like a Dutch Oven.

What cut of meat is used for bbq beef?

What is the number one bbq sauce?

SweetBaby Ray’sbarbecue sauceconsistently tops lists as the best and most popular one. This may be because it’s sweet with a bit of tang as well as being inexpensive.

I know, lucky us. 😉 Love having it handy at home and not having to shop for it in the store ever. If I did I would get the cut that looked best, and was reasonably priced. Yes, I am frugal too.

• I don’t even bother sautéing it at the beginning.
• Just cut into fourths or large chunks like our Instant Pot Barbacoa beef so it gets as tender as possible.
• Sprinkled with some salt and pepper on all sides.

Then I pressure cook it for an hour with broth and a small amount of sauce.

I have found that is the best way to get the meat tender, and then adding the remainder of the sauce at the end. This way the flavors don’t get muted with the addition of the water or broth in the initial step.

• Yes you can use water instead of beef stock or broth. Difference is of course you won’t get that added flavor.
• If you have it on hand it’s far better than just water I tell you.

Here are quick directions but there is a printable recipe card at the bottom of this post as well.

If you need a really accurate time to complete this whole thing including the 20 minute time it takes to reach pressure, I’d say it’s 1.5 hours.

Any pressure cooker brand will work too. If you have a Crockpot Express or need a new Ninja Foodi recipe, follow the same directions below.

You could dice your onions if you wanted. Just keep in mind that they really get cooked down in that hour and become almost nothing. If you slice them thick like this you will have something left to add texture.

Most of the reason I add them period is for flavor. When you drain the liquid after the pressure cooking, make sure to use a strainer so you don’t loose these bits.

What can I do with leftover bbq beef?

• If you do have some of this left over after you eat it (we don’t), you could eat it the next day in:
  • A batch of Instant Pot chili to really “beef it up”
  • On top of a salad
  • Inside of an Instant Pot casserole

For an easy pulled pork slow cooker recipe we have that too! Now you can enjoy all different types of meat with the same tender texture that’s full of flavor.

BBQ Beef Recipe

You can print recipe below and enjoy it very soon.

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