Are you looking for a quick recipe for homemade meatballs for dinner? This instant meatball recipe is the answer you’ve been waiting for. This pressure cooker dumpling is quick, easy and full of delicious flavors, tender and juicy.
No cooling, burning or baking is needed for this recipe. Okay, let’s do it and I’ll show you how to do it in easy steps.
Easy instant meatball recipe
One of
the recipes you’ll never regret making in your instant pot electric pressure cooker is ground beef. No matter what recipe it is, it comes out appetizing and juicy every time.
I have quite a few instant ground beef recipes here on the blog, from this instant pot taco beef to instant pot careless joes and this super easy instant pot Korean beef. The king of them all is my instant meatloaf and mashed potatoes. 2 in 1 recipe that is guaranteed to surprise the whole family.
These instant dumplings are an addition to my ground beef repertoire and believe me it’s not going to be the last as I have so much more where it came from. After making this homemade recipe for dumplings with tomato sauce, I told myself I would never make it any other way.
This recipe literally takes about 10 minutes to prepare and you don’t have to brown or bake the dumplings before cooking. So yes, it’s more like a dump instant pot recipe and the best instant dumpling recipe out there. Okay, let’s get to it.
ingredients
Ground beef
: You can also go half and half but using half ground beef, half ground pork. You can even use ground turkey or Passata chicken
: substitute with
spaghetti sauce or marinara sauce.
Breadcrumbs: can be substituted with 2 white slices without rind, this acts as a binding ingredient for meatballs Parmesan
cheese
Egg milk
Beef broth cube: I used OXO, you can use any brand of choice
Dried parsley
Grated onion: When making meatballs, I prefer to grate my onions instead of cutting them, that way the meatball keeps its shape and the onions are also well cooked.
Brown sugar
: substitute with Worcestershire sauce
Herb de Provence: substitute with mixed herbs or Italian seasonings
Smoked paprika
Black pepper
Salt to taste How to
make instant meatballs and
sauce in easy steps
Make the meatballs: To a large bowl, add ground beef, breadcrumbs, grated onions, Parmesan cheese, dried parsley, salt, black pepper and beat an egg. Put your hands there and mix to combine. Do not mix too much so that the meatballs do not come out hard.
Remove and roll the meat mixture in the palms of your hands in small portions to form a ball. You should get between 12 to 15 meatballs. To facilitate the work and for equal sizes of meatballs, use a tablespoon of medium-sized cookies.
Prepare the meatball sauce: Turn on your instant pot, select the stir-fry button and set it to normal. Add olive oil, passata, Provence herb, brown sugar, meat broth and mix to combine. Sprinkle smoked paprika and salt in sauce, do not stir.
Add the meatballs to the sauce, do not stir. Lock the IP cap securely and turn the valve to the sealing position. Select the manual or high-pressure cook, then time for 6 minutes.
The timer would beep once you have finished cooking, let the pressure cooker release naturally for 5 minutes, and then make a quick release carefully
.
Carefully stir the meatballs and sauce to match. Serve with pasta, rice or as an appetizer with homemade garlic bread.
If
- you use cooked frozen dumplings, set the timer to 7 minutes instead of 6 minutes.
For a
- lighter tomato sauce, add 1/2 cup of meat broth
to the sauce and reduce the added salt to the
- use of the herbs and spices of your choice for the meatballs
.
- Make these instant sauce-free dumplings easy by omitting tomato sauce. Instead of cooking the dumplings directly on the IP with the sauce, add 1 cup of beef broth to the pot and place the dumplings in a trivet. The meatballs won’t crunch like you would if you baked or pan-fried them, just finish them on the grill or roast for a few minutes.
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