Easy Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin
Frozen pork tenderloin in the Instant Potis what we usually cook when we have limited time. It is convenient, easy, and in many ways a healthier alternative to pan-frying the meat. Simply take the frozen tenderloin, put it in the pressure cooker with some chicken broth and seasoning, and you have the best and quickest dinner at your disposal.
How many times did it happen to you to plan a delicious dinner, and only to realize that you forgot to thaw the meat?! This is the scenario that usually leads to either eating cereal after work or ordering delivery. However, with the help of Instant Pot, you wont have this problem again. In this post, I will share with you how to cook frozen pork tenderloin in the pressure cooker with delicious Honey Garlic sauce.
How To Cook Frozen Meat In The Instant Pot
If you are like most of us, we just want a quick Instant Pot cheat sheet that gives us the times we need to cook our meat. Below, I have given you just that for how to cook frozen meat in the Instant Pot.;
Keep in mind, the time to come to pressure as well as the time you cook will differ from fresh meat!
Instant Pot Pork Shoulder Times & Instructions:
- Preheat the pot on saute with some oil. Cut your pork butt into large, uniform chunks and season liberally with salt, pepper, and any other seasonings you like.
- After 3-4 minutes of heating, add the loin to the pot to brown the sides.
- Remove the pork loin and add 1.5-2 cups of liquid to the pot. Then, add the trivet or steamer basket and place the pork inside.
- Cook for 15 minutes on HIGH pressure per pound of meat .
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Even the most organized person can forget to plan ahead. If you need to get dinner on the table fast but forgot to take your chicken out of the freezer, your Instant Pot is going to be your best friend.
You can safely cook frozen meat in an Instant Pot because pressure cooking cooks foods quickly. Unlike a slow cooker, in which frozen food may stay in a dangerous temperature range for too long, the Instant Pot can quickly bring frozen food to a safe temperature.
Before getting started, read my Instant Pot Guide for my tips on how to use an Instant Pot.
What Vegetables To Serve This With
My personal favorite is to serve this with some sauteed Brussels sprouts, but I know potatoes and carrots are a much more popular option.
I think the potatoes and carrots will taste best if you roast them separately in the oven, or you could try making my popular Honey Glazed Carrots!
If you want to cook the potatoes and carrots in the Instant Pot with the roast, youll need to decrease the cooking time by 15 minutes and do a quick release. Then add in halved potatoes and carrots. Cook everything for the remaining 15 minutes and then proceed with the natural release for 30 minutes.
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Can You Cook Frozen Meat In A Pressure Cooker
It is possible to pressure cook smaller cuts of frozen meat and frozen poultry. You can also easily pressure cook frozen vegetables. To pressure cook thick pieces of frozen meat like beef or pork roasts, it will take up to one -third more than the normal cooking time, and the results will not taste very good.
How To Cook Beef Stew Meat
We have used this cut in many ways. Why? It is SO cheap that it just tempts me at the store saying make me! every time I see it. I have learned a few things about it though.
You either want to cook it for a long time on low heat like our slow cooker beef tips recipe does, or make it as an easy Ninja Foodi recipe under pressure.
Submerged in some sort of liquid, onion gravy is probably our favorite, this gets more tender the longer it cooks. Yes you could do the same thing on the stovetop or in a dutch oven in the oven but it would take WAY longer. This method does take one intervention in the middle to break it up but the other would take a lot more of your time.
I am all about easy one pot meal ideas so lets just go with this one shall we? Even with the stop in the middle to break it up time it is done and ready to serve in a little over an hour. Any other method will take 4x that long so to me it is really a no brainer as to which I would choose over and over again.
Whether you find this one sale and freeze it in a freezer bag, or buy meat in bulk like we do from local farmers and get it in paper the same directions apply. The pieces will be stuck together in a big clump either way. This means you will need to break it up after about 25 minutes so the inner pieces cook evenly and get soft too.
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Instant Pot Pork Tenderloin
Much like the roast, the Instant Pot can cook frozen pork tenderloin effortlessly and quickly too. All youll need is frozen pork tenderloin, chicken broth and bay leaves.
While the pork is cooking you can prepare the delicious homemade sauce. This is made from honey, soy sauce, garlic, fresh ginger, and cornstarch to thicken. Serve the pork with a side of your favorite veggies and rice. Learn how to cook rice quickly using our Instant Pot Hack: Cooking Perfect White Rice.
Can You Put Frozen Meat In Pressure Cooker
It is possible to pressure cook smaller cuts of frozen meat and frozen poultry. You can also easily pressure cook frozen vegetables. To pressure cook thick pieces of frozen meat like beef or pork roasts, it will take up to one -third more than the normal cooking time, and the results will not taste very good.
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Tips For Freezing Food:
Its important to portion food properly before freezing for the easiest Instant Pot cooking experience. For example, wrap chicken breasts and thighs individually, cut a rack of ribs into 2- to 3-piece sections , and cut big pieces of meat into smaller portions, such as a pork and beef roast for faster and even cooking. If possible, freeze meals in a circular shape thats the same size as the Instant Pot bowl-insert — this lets you go straight from the freezer to the Instant Pot with ease!
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Ways To Cook Meat From Frozen In Your Instant Pot
You get home from a long day of work and realize you havent thawed anything for dinner. What do you do? Grab takeout? Scrounge up a sad meal of whatever you can find in the pantry?
Have you tried, well, cooking the frozen food you have?
Conventionally, weve been taught that we have to thaw food before cooking it, but its;completely safe;to cook meat from frozen, and, when done properly, it still results in a hearty, satisfying, and;tasty meal.
When cooking from frozen, you have to account for some extra cooking time about 50 percent more. However, if you use an electric, programmable pressure cooker, like the Instant Pot, that added time can actually be negligible.
Were talking boneless, skinless chicken breasts and salmon filets that can be cooked from frozen in around 10 to 15 minutes. You can even make whole chickens and pot roasts with frozen meat in a fraction of the time it would take in the oven or slow cooker.
The Instant Pot is a magic device for cooking meat from frozen, as youll find in these recipes.
Instant Pot Frozen Roast
This recipe may have originated out of necessity when I forgot to thaw my roast in advance, but its quickly become our chosen way of making roast! The results are so tender, that I dont see the need to thaw the meat in advance anymore.
If youre looking for pull-apart tender pot roast with minimal effort and time, this is definitely the recipe for you!
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Remembering To Thaw My Meat
I cannot describe how many times I have waltzed into the kitchen at 4:00pm only to realize that my meat was rock solid and still in the freezer.
Since we have no microwave by choice, putting meat in the;fridge to thaw the night before is a pretty big deal. And one I pretty much fail at.
So when a friend told me that you can cook FROZEN MEAT in the Instant Pot with NO NEED TO THAW, I definitely perked up all ears.
Taking The Plunge
So I ordered the Instant Pot and promptly let it sit unopened in the box.
For a month.
Finally I sent out a cry for help. Its not like this thing is that complicated. But my brain was on hyperdrive from just managing life.
So my friend Tricia stopped by my house and totally blew my mind. She taught me how to cook frozen ground beef in my Instant Pot. And my life has never been the same.
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Is your Instant Pot still in the box? Katies kids show you how EASY it is to get started in this Instant Pot set-up video tutorial! If you feel like you need a full lesson in how to use your Instant Pot, check out Traditional Cooking Schools Pressure Cooking eCourse.
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Can I Cook Frozen Ground Meat In The Instant Pot
Absolutely! It is a time saver and so easy to make, you only need two ingredients: water and beef. While I would highly recommend staying away from cooking frozen meat in the microwave or boiling it on the stovetop or cooking it in the slow cooker.
Because the cooking time takes too long. Also, the beef becomes over-cooked on the outside and under-cooked in the center, and the texture just isnt the same. The pressure cooking method, however, is the one that I found the most success with. It only takes minutes to cook frozen ground beef in the instant pot, so make sure to save the recipe for emergency dinners!
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How Long Does It Take To Cook A Frozen Steak In The Oven
Once youve seared the steak in oil, youll finish it in the oven at the low temperature of 275° F. This indirect heat will cook the middle of the steak. Since your steak is still frozen through the center, this is going to take a bit longer than youre accustomed to: around 45 minutes. Dont leave anything to chance.
Frozen Beef In Instant Pot
Follow directions as stated for best results. Do not skip the step of breaking up the meat halfway thru or it will be tougher than youd like it to be at the end. This I might admit is even better the next day too! Make sure to store in a sealed container with gravy and reheat in the microwave in 30 second increments, its a great next day lunch.
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One of the many things I love about my Instant Pot is that it makes dinnertime so much easier for me. I can have rice cooking in the Instant Pot while I cook chicken on the stovetop, or have potatoes steaming while I cook a roast in my oven. Pressure cooking is a busy ladys best friend! 🙂
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But what about those nights when youre even busier than normal? As in, you have zero time to get food on the table, plus a million things you need to do! In those situations, your Instant Pot can really be a lifesaver! Because as youll discover in todays post, you can your Instant Pot to cook frozen food straight from your freezer!
The process for cooking frozen food is a little different from normal Instant Pot cooking. Ive broken down the process into 10 simple Dos and Donts for you below! As long as you follow these simple tips, youll be cooking frozen foods in your Instant Pot like a pro in no time!
How To Cook A Roast
Pot roast recipes typically call for thawed beef. Since it can take up to a few days to fully thaw a roast, and weve all had those moments where we forgot to take the meat out of the freezer, I decided to find out if you could get incredibly tender roast beef using a frozen roast in the Instant Pot. The answer is a definite yes!
This roast is pull-apart tender and nobody will ever know that you forgot to defrost your roast in advance.
To make it, simply place your trivet in the bottom of the Instant Pot, add the frozen roast, pour the broth over the roast, sprinkle the seasoning over top, add the garlic and onion, cook it, and let it natural release for 30 minutes.
A quick note its important to pour the broth over the frozen roast rather than adding it to the bottom of the pot before adding the roast. The liquid thaws the edge of the roast just enough to allow the seasoning to stick to it. It makes the final result so delicious!
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Can You Cook Frozen Ground Beef In The Instant Pot
You can cook frozen ground beef in the Instant Pot, which is fantastic since it doesnt thaw very evenly in the microwave, and who actually remembers to take meat out the day before to thaw?
Not me, thats for sure.
Cooking frozen ground beef in the Instant Pot takes about 20 minutes. If your blocks of ground beef are really thick it will likely take a bit longer than that.
I freeze my ground beef in flat, 1-1.5 inch thick blocks and it takes 20 minutes to cook almost all the way through in the Instant Pot.
You can add a few more minutes to get it completely cooked through, but I find its easier to crumble and break up if its still a bit pink in the middle.
It only takes a couple minutes with the saute function to break it up and finish cooking it after the pressure cooking cycle is complete.
