Pressure Cooked Beef Brisket for Gyudon

Start your week off right with this Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowl recipe. Your family and friends will absolutely love this meal! It tastes fancy but only takes a couple hours to prepare this fall-off-the-bone shredded Korean beef with your Instant Pot.

Love delicious Instant Pot meat recipes? Our Instant Pot Pork Roast and Instant Pot Pot Roast two of our other favorite Instant Pot meals!

Beef in the Instant Pot

How amazing do these Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowls look?! Let me just tell you, think of the most delicious beef roast you have ever had. The kind of beef roasts your mom or grandma make for the holidays. The kind of beef roast that cooks all day long.

These Korean Beef Bowls are THAT good, except (thanks to the Instant Pot) they are done in just 2 hours! The Instant Pot can produce one heck of a meal in just hours compared to a slow cooker.

Cooking big chunks of beef in the Instant Pot is one of our favorite ways to cook beef! It just makes so much sense!

What cut of meat do I use?

We use a chuck roast in this recipe. A chuck roast is a cut of meat from the shoulder of the animal. It can be labeled as chuck roast, pot roast, or shoulder steak in a grocery store. For this recipe, we used a boneless beef chuck roast.

Pro Tip: this recipe will work with a bone-in chuck roast, but it will definitely increase your cook time in the Instant Pot as it will take longer for the meat to break down and tenderize. If you try this method, let us know how it turned out in the comment

Staple Ingredients

We love these Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowls because they incorporate quality meat with tasty crunchy bell peppers that we just love! And? It's a super easy recipe. This isn't must ANY beef recipe. This is a Korean beef recipe and there are two important ways we are going to add flavor to this meal.

First, with the dry rub of the meat and then second, with the Korean Beef sauce!

Dry Rub Ingredients

The dry rub we use to rub the chuck roast uses brown sugar, ginger, salt and red pepper flakes (which is very common ins Korean beef recipes,). A little sweet a savory with a good amount of salt with perfectly season your meat while the salt tenderizes the meat!

Brown sugar
Ground ginger
Pepper
Red pepper flakes
Salt

Korean Beef Sauce Ingredients

You are going to want to drink this Korean beef sauce out of a cup it's so good! The sauce is added to the Instant Pot before you cook the beef and thickens and becomes flavorful while everything is cooking in the Instant Pot.

Soy sauce
Maple syrup
Fresh ginger
Sriracha
Cornstarch

How to Make Instant Pot Korean Beef Bowls

Rub

The first step to this whole recipe is to rub the chuck roast down with the delicious dry rub. The key to making sure you get the most bang from your buck is to rub down the the chuck roast and make sure every inch is covered.

Finally, let the beef and dry rub sit for at least 10 minutes before searing the beef (the longer you let the beef in the dry rub, the better!).

Sear

Searing the chuck roast before pressure cooking the meat in the Instant Pot creates a delicious crust on the outside of the chuck roast and gets the juices flowing in the beef roast.

After you have searing the roast, remove the roast from the pot and use a spatula to scrape off all of the brown bits from the bottom of the pot (these are flavorful brown bits!).

Cook

Finally, toss the onion, garlic, and all of the sauce ingredients together in the bottom of the Instant Pot and place the beef roast on top of all of the Ingredients and set the Instant Pot to cook on low pressure for two hours.

While beef is cooking, prepare your rice and peppers for the bowls!

Shred

Once the beef is done cooking, remove the beef from the Instant Pot and shred the beef with two forks. The beef should easily pull a part! Before adding the beef back into the pot, turn the sauté function on and sprinkle the corn starch into the sauce at the bottom of the pot and whisk until the sauce begins to thickens.

Add the beef back into the pot and toss the beef with the delicious sauce!

Here's a tip–> Slowly add the cornstarch to the pot, if you add too much at a time it will clump!

Assemble Bowls

It's time to EAT! Evenly distribute rice, peppers, and beef into bowls and enjoy!

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Watch How to Make this Recipe

Dry Rub

1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flacks
1/2 teaspoon salt

Korean Beef

2 lb. chuck/arm beef roast
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium yellow onion, sliced
5 cloves garlic, smashed

Sauce

1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon fresh ginger
1 tablespoon sriracha
2 tablespoons cornstarch

Brown Rice

2.5 cups short grain brown rice
5 cups water

Peppers

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
2 bell peppers, any color, sliced
salt to taste

Optional Toppings*

Kim chi
sesame seeds
sriracha

Mix dry rub spices in a small bowl. Rub roast with dry rub spices, making sure all of the meat is covered and let the beef sit for at least 10 minutes.*
Set your Instant Pot to saute and add olive oil. When olive oil is fragrant, add the roast to the Instant Pot and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side.
Remove roast from Instant Pot, add onions, garlic, and all ingredients for the sauce (minus the cornstarch) into the Instant Pot. Mix well and place chuck roast on top of onion mixture.
Close Instant Pot, turn pressure gauge to seal, set Instant Pot to manual, low pressure, and cook for 2 hours.
While the beef is cooking, prepare short grain brown rice. Place rice and water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and let simmer for around 30-40 minutes or until all water has absorbed. Set aside.
When the meat is done, quick release pressure and remove roast. Add 2 tablespoons of cornstarch to the sauce in the Instant Pot. Stir well. Place roast back into the instant pot and shred with two forks. Close instant pot and turn to warm.
Next, heat olive oil in a large skillet. Saute bell peppers in pan for 3-4 minutes. Season with salt, to taste.
Serve beef with peppers, short grain brown rice, sesame seeds, and kim chi!

*The longer the chuck roast sits in the dry rub, the better!

Nutrition information was calculated based on 8 servings and does not include rice and optional toppings.
The Korean beef sauce was slightly updated on Feb 14, 2021.

Serving Size: 1/8 Calories: 286 Sugar: 11 Fat: 14 Carbohydrates: 14 Fiber: 1 Protein: 24

Category: Dinner Method: Instant Pot Cuisine: Korean-American

About Linley Richter

Linley is a 5′ nothing spitball of positive energy who joined Team Fit Foodie in the Spring of 2014. Linley has worked on the digital side of small businesses and nonprofits since 2011, where she specialized in social media community management. Lin has a passion for food and an incredible palate. She is FFF's chief recipe developer, so you can thank her for these incredible recipes!

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