Instant Pot Rouladen
This is a classic German Beef Rouladen, a beef roll stuffed with pickles, bacon and onions. This Instant Pot Rouladen uses the pressure cooker to get the meat perfectly moist and tender
Ingredients
Beef Roll
- 2 pounds top round steak thinly sliced
- 6 slices bacon cubed
- 1 onion sliced
- 2-3 whole dill pickles quartered and thinly sliced lengthwise
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 3 tablespoons mustard
- 2 tablespoon vegetable oil
Gravy
- 3 large carrots roughly chopped
- 3 stalks celery roughly chopped
- 1 onion roughly chopped
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cup red wine
- 2 cup beef broth
- Cornstarch or flour
Instructions
- In skillet or Instant Pot set to Sauté. Add cubed bacon and onions and brown. Remove and set aside to cool.
- Flatten beef to 1/8 to ¼ inch. Cut beef into about 4” by 6” rectangles. Each rectangle should be about 1/3 pound of beef.
- Spread 1 teaspoon mustard on each rectangle. Season with salt and pepper. Add pickles, bacon and onions to middle of rectangle. Roll up like a burrito and seal with toothpick, skewer or string.
- Set Instant Pot to Sauté. Add beef rolls and brown on all sides. Remove beef and set aside. Leave meat drippings and do not clean pot.
- To make sauce add onions, carrots, garlic and celery to meat drippings and cook for about 5 minutes. Add tomato paste and red wine and deglaze pot.
- Add beef, bay leaf and beef broth to Instant Pot. Set Instant Pot to high pressure for 20 minutes. Allow to natural release for 20 minutes.
- Remove meat to serving platter. Strain sauce to remove large chunks of carrots, celery and onion. Thicken sauce to desired consistency with a mixture of cornstarch/water (1 part cornstarch/2 part water) or flour/butter (equal part flour and butter).