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Lasagna
Ninety-Minute Sunday Dinner
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This is an American Classic. This dish would normally have to be started in the morning and take most of the day to cook. With the Instant Pot®, this takes only ninety minutes for that gooey goodness of beef and carrots served over potatoes or rice.
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 90 minutes |
| Servings |
6 servings
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Ingredients
- 3-5 lb chuck roast
- 3 Tbsp canola oil
- 1/4 cup flour or 2 Tbsp of cornstarch
- 1 onion left whole with ends removed
- 1 lb baby carrots
- salt and pepper to taste
- single batch of brown sauce see below for recipe
- 1 Tbsp beef base
- 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Espagnole or Brown Sauce
- 4 Tbsp real butter
- 1 cup onions (1/4 diced)
- 1/2 cup carrots diced
- 1/2 cup celery diced
- 4 Tbsp flour
- 3 cups beef stock
- 3 Tbsp tomato puree
- 1 Tbsp beef base
- salt and pepper to taste
Ingredients
Espagnole or Brown Sauce
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Instructions
- Set the Instant Pot to sauté, select the high option. Add the oil to the bottom. Let it heat up for several minutes.
- Salt and pepper the roast heavily on both sides. Brown the roast on both sides until well browned. Dust the roast with the flour and let it relax while you make a brown sauce.
- Melt the butter (from the brown sauce recipe) in the bottom and whisk in the flour mixing well.
- Cook for several minutes whisking well until it smells like popcorn and starts to turn dark blonde. Add the water, Worcestershire sauce and beef base. Whisk it for a minute until is thickened.
- Add the roast, the beef base, and the carrots. Hit clear on the Instant Pot. Place the lid on and turn the vent to pressure. Select the meat/stew switch and select high pressure. Change the time to 90 minutes.
- Let the Instant Pot finish it’s cycle and natural pressure release. Vent any remaining pressure and open the lid. Serve over potatoes or rice.
Espagnole or Brown Sauce
- Set the Instant Pot to sauté high. Melt the butter in the bottom and brown the onions, carrots, and celery. Stir it well until it is browning.
- Stir in the flour mixing well. Cook for several minutes whisking well until it smells like popcorn and starts to turn light brown.
- Add the stock, tomato puree, and beef base. Stir it for a minute until is thickened.
- Cook for several minutes. You can strain the veggies out for a smooth texture, puree it with an immersion blender, or keep the veggies as they are for stews.
Matt Pelton grew up in central Utah, where he found his love for cooking in the outdoors. He learned to cook outdoors in a Dutch oven at the age of 8 years old and has done it ever since. Matt lived in Boston for a couple of years where he expanded his cooking abilities, learning to cook foods from all different cultures around the world. During this time, he gained an appreciation for food and culture and the ability of food to connect people. In 2012 and 2013, Matt won two world championships from The International Dutch Oven Society. He has also won many awards for his BBQ cooking within the KCBS pro division, especially in the brisket category. Matt has twice competed in the invitational World Food Championships aired on TV, where he placed 3rd and 11th, respectively. Matt has appeared on TV numerous times for cooking; most recently, he was featured on the Travel Channel's “BBQ Crawl season 3”. Matt has also worked as a chef at Deer Valley ski resorts in Utah, often working with the other chefs there on proteins. Matt has three children, Megan, Tristan, and Braxton and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has published a number of cookbooks, including Cooking Under Pressure: Delicious Dutch Oven Recipes Adapted for Your Instant Pot®, Cast Iron Gourmet, and Up in Smoke: A Complete Guide to Cooking with Smoke.
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Awesome recipe!
It was good. I’d cook it a bit longer and add more vegetables. Definitely NR it so it can simmer in it’s juices longer. Also whoever created the recipe didn’t proof read and made it a little confusing to folllow. Example: it says add water but never gives a measurment for water. Also it misleads with the two differ recipes, brown sauce and the roast itself. But it was tasty.
Very, very confusing!
It does not mention the water (comment above), it also does not give further reference as to when to add the whole onion or Worcestershire sauce. Or when to put back in the brown sauce.
Wish I had known the recipe had problems before I started.
Absolutely horrible recipe, very confusing. Several steps are unclear, wish I had read the comments before attempting this cook. Don’t do it.
A ninety minute dinner that takes 100 minutes?
Fantastic! We made this exactly as described minus the flour. I realize this is part of it to thicken the sauce but we are avoiding flour items and it was more runny, which was perfectly fine.
The smell was amazing, the taste was spectacular and everyone at the table loved it!
Seeing as there is canola oil and white flour in it it cant be clasicied as keto……just saying
4 Tbsp of flour is only 24 grams of carbs and it is split over 6 servings.
Wish I had read the comments – confusing recipe.
Where is the water listed? Where does the onion go?
Wasted a good piece of meat on this – total disappointment
Where the heck did all the STARS come from???
A little confusing on directions but we made it. This was the first receipe i tried in my Instant Pot. Just follow directions until brown sauce, then follow directions under brown sauce then back again to other directions. I added red potatoes as well. I think 90 minutes could be a little longer as the meat was not as fork tender as i had hoped…BUT, it tasted amazing. Veggies came out perfect, not hard or mushy. I will definately make this again.
I don’t think I have ever come across a recipe as haphazard as this one. When to use onion and Worcestershire sauce? How much water? Full recipe for brown sauce or the limited recipe (no celery, carrot, onion, puree) in the roast instructions? 1/4 of cup diced onions in brown sauce – what about the other 3/4 cup? Horribly written.
So honestly, i wish i read the comments before i started making this. Recipe is confusing. Instructions even worse. I made A LOT myown modifications. We’ll see how it turns out!
Trying to cook it now my pot keeps indicating burn but there is enough liquid so i am not hopeful this will turn out. How much fricken water btw? First time with this instapot not impressed so far.
Confusing recipe and too many issues with the burn notices. Also why was the only comment answered about keto and none of the others. Other than this recipe I love my instant pot.
This is definitely a staple in our family now. I wouldn’t change a thing! The recipe is a tiny bit confusing but once you get it down it’s a pretty simple dish to make with a ton of glavor. The meat is so moist it’s almost unbelievable!
Wad someone having a medical issue writing this recipe?? Very confusing recipe. Calls for water but where is it in ingredient??
Will not attempt to make this again.
As many others have said, the recipe was very confusing. Do I add the brown sauce in? When? What about the whole onion? The brown sauce recipe was easy to follow and very delicious. I also added garlic and portabello mushrooms since I had them in the fridge and the sauce was very good. Hope I did not waste it!
PLEASE edit this recipe
This was a terrible recipe. Ditched it halfway through and did my own thing. Never did find out how much water to put in. Maybe you have to pay to get the full set of instructions????
the food was delicious but the recipe was confusing. “add water” not listed in ingredients, the butter? and flour are listed twice?I really felt like I was winging it!
There are potatoes on the plate that are not in the ingredients