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Instant Pot Taco Soup is an Easy, Delicious Way to do Taco Night Without the Mess!

We love Instant Pot Ground Beef recipes!   When feeding a family the size of ours, we are constantly looking to stretch our grocery budget.  Meals like this taste great and they are not too expensive, and yet still easy in the Instant Pot.  Some of our favorite Instant Pot Ground beef recipes include include Instant Pot Cheeseburger Macaroni and Instant Pot Stuffed Pepper Soup.

Instant Pot Taco Soup

We all love Taco Night, but honestly…the mess gets to be a bit too much! You’ll dirty a pan for browning and seasoning the meat and multiple dishes for all the fixings. Then you have to heat up the shells, and if any of them are broken, someone gets fewer tacos. When you have a family who loves tacos, that’s not a fun thing to figure out!

There has to be an easier way to do it, right? Right.

My Instant Pot Taco Soup is the perfect answer! It has all the delicious flavors and textures of Taco Night without the mess and without the drama. It also makes quite a bit, so there’s plenty for everyone!

IS INSTANT POT TACO SOUP REALLY A ONE-POT MEAL?

You bet it is! This is one of my favorite things about my Instant Pot. Not only will it do just about everything in the cooking process, it does so quickly and easily! You can brown the meat, saute the vegetables, and cook the soup in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

In addition, pressure cooking the soup melds all of those wonderful flavors together in a way that makes it taste like it’s been cooking for hours. Whip up a batch of Southern Cornbread Muffins and you’ve got a meal everyone will love! 

CAN I USE ANOTHER TYPE OF MEAT?

Ground beef is my go-to, since it’s easy to come by, flavorful, and easy to use. You can use any type of ground meat you would like, though! If you use a very lean meat like ground turkey, I would suggest sautéing it with a bit of the taco seasoning to give the flavor a bit of “oomph.” Any meat you like will work, though!

By the way…if you happen to have some Instant Pot Taco Meat in the freezer, you can substitute it for the ground beef in this recipe! You may want to ease up on the seasoning mix for the soup, depending on your family’s tastes.

WILL INSTANT POT TACO SOUP FREEZE WELL?

This soup freezes exceptionally well! Just freeze it without the toppings (some of them don’t do so well in the freezer). When you’re ready for a quick and easy meal, just pull it out, thaw it, and heat it up!

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Instant Pot Taco Soup

Instant Pot Taco Soup is an Easy, Delicious Way to do Taco Night Without the Mess
Prep Time 3 hours 53 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours 53 minutes
Author Sarah

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs ground beef
  • 2 15 oz cans of chili beans
  • 2 15 oz cans diced tomatoes
  • 2 15 oz cans corn drained
  • 4 Tbsp chili powder
  • 1 Tbsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • 2 tsp onion powder
  • 32 oz beef broth
  • Toppings: crushed tortilla chips shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream

Instructions

  • Using the Saute function, brown ground beef in Instant Pot.
  • Drain grease.
  • Place all ingredients, except optional toppings, into Instant Pot.
  • Cook on manual or pressure cook, high pressure for 15 minutes.
  • Quick release or slow release the vent.
  • Stir and dip into individual bowls.
  • Top with cheddar cheese, sour cream and broken up tortilla chips.
  • Serve!

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  • Amorette DavisUser of the Free Freezer to Slow Cooker One Week Menu

    Thank you so much! As a special needs mommy these recipes have helped us so much.   I often am very busy with being a nurse for our child that I don't have time for making sure we get meals.  This allows me to do all my prep on the weekends, while my husband is home to help, and to cook during the week.  So grateful!

  • Linda SearsOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Menus

    Sarah’s Freezer to Slow Cooker ebooks have been a fantastic addition to my meal plans.  They make meal planning easy and my family happy. I love the way each recipe is laid out, with a shopping list and ingredient prep list, along with cooking instructions. Sarah’s done all the hard work for me!  The recipes have used have all been delicious and easily adaptable to my family’s taste and the number of people I’m serving.

  • FranOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebooks
     I purchased all of your freezer to slow cooker ebooks a month or so ago and I'm in love with this way of cooking.  I now have taken all 10 weeks of recipes and written them of my menu planner and then I repeated the 10 weeks and will continue to do so throughout the year.  My family of 5 adults and 1 child enjoy the meals that you have planned and I have cooked and I'm excited that the next time when that meal comes due up in the rotation I won't have to purchase anything but just pull it from the freezer.  Thank you so much
           A Happy Slow Cooker User
  • rayzn2angelsfrom Freezer to Slow Cooker Series

    This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.

  • Dawn S.Buyer of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebook Series
    I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children.  I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home.  I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day.  I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it!  Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well!  So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table.  Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.

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