Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- QUICK AND EASY – Made with just a handful of common pantry ingredients, it only takes 10 minutes to throw together and 30 minutes of cooking time in your Instant Pot. You can just set it and forget it. Perfect for busy weekday nights!
- HEARTY – This is sure to make enough to satisfy even the hungriest bellies. Or, make a batch on Sunday night and bring them to work throughout the week for an easy lunch!
- DELICIOUS – When you pressure cook meatloaf, it looks all the flavors and aromas in the Instant Pot that results in the most juicy, tender and moist recipe!
If you are new to pressure cooking and are a little intimidated, don’t be. There are many benefits to cooking with your Instant pot, check out our pressure cooking guide to learn more!
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Instant Pot Meatloaf Recipe
For step-by-step instructions, you can print out the recipe card below. But here is what you’ll need to get started.
Pressure Cooker Meatloaf Instructions
- GROUND BEEF – We used 80% lean ground beef. But you can use whatever you’d like. A lot of the fat content will be coming from our ground pork. To lighten this dish up, you could also use ground turkey here.
- GROUND PORK – To be combined with the ground beef. Use just normal ground pork, not Italian pork or anything like that.
- EGGS – Generally, you should only need 2 eggs. But if you are using leaner ground beef, you may want to add a third to help bind the ingredients.
- ONION – Diced onion. We use yellow onion due to it’s sweeter, milder flavor. But you can use red onion if you’d like.
- GARLIC – Minced garlic. You can use fresh or the canned stuff.
- BBQ SAUCE – This is where you can really put your own spin on this recipe. Use sweet, zesty or spicy sauce, whatever sounds good for you.
- KETCHUP – Or, you could use tomato paste as well.
- SOY SAUCE – Use low sodium if you are watching your salt intake.
- BALSAMIC VINEGAR
- SALT AND PEPPER – To taste
How To Make Meatloaf In An Instant Pot
- Grease a 6″ cake pan or springform pan. If using a springform pan, also line the outside with aluminum foil. Or, fold the foil into a narrow strip and loop around the bottom of the pan to make a foil sling.
- Combine the ground meats together until fully blended, by hand preferably.
- In a small bowl, combine the eggs, 1/4 cup BBQ sauce, onion, and garlic, then add to the meat.
- Press the meatloaf mixture into the greased pan.
- In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine remaining BBQ sauce, vinegar, ketchup and soy sauce. Spread over top of the meatloaf.
- Place the trivet in your IP and add 1 cup of water. Place the pan on the trivet, secure the lid and make sure the valve is set to seal.
Set for 30 minutes of manual, high pressure.- When the pressure cooker is done, allow steam to naturally release.
Can You Make This Recipe In An Oven?
Yep! You can easily adapt this recipe for the oven. Just mold the meat mixture into a greased 9X4 loaf pan and bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 50-55 minutes.
Storage, Leftovers and Freezing
Store leftovers in an airtight container in your refrigerator. They should be good for about 5 days. We love using leftover meatloaf slices to make meatloaf sandwiches!
You can freeze this meatloaf. Just allow it to fully cool, then wrap it tightly in freezer wrap. It should be good in your freezer for up to 4 months. Allow to thaw overnight in your fridge.
We hope you enjoy this Easy Instant Pot Meatloaf Recipe. Let us know how it turned out in the comments section!
Instant Pot Meatloaf
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground pork
- 2-3 eggs you will need the third if using lean meat
- 1/2 chopped onion
- 1 Tablespoon garlic
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce of choice
- 2 Tablespoons ketchup or tomato paste
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- 1/2 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- Grease a 6" cake pan or springform pan. If using a springform pan, also line the outside with tinfoil.
- Combine the ground meats together until fully blended, by hand preferably.
- In a small bowl, combine the eggs, 1/4 cup BBQ sauce, onion and garlic, then add to the meat.
- Press the meatloaf mixture into the greased pan.
- In a small bowl or measuring cup, combine remaining BBQ sauce, vinegar, ketchup and soy sauce. Spread overtop of meatloaf.
- Place the trivet in your IP and add 1 cup of water.
- Place the pan on the trivet and secure the lid.
- Set for 30 minutes on manual, high pressure. Natural release.
Notes
Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.
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