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A delicious homestyle dinner, Instant Pot Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes are cooked at the same time in your electric pressure cooker. This is a convenient meal to make, as it doesn’t call for anything fancy. The flavors are traditional and comforting, and you can adjust it to make it your own. This pressure cooker meatloaf and mashed potatoes dinner is sure to become a favorite meal for your family!
Instant Pot Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes
A meatloaf isn’t that difficult to make. Throw some stuff in with some ground beef and bake it. How about cooking some potatoes at the same time, and faster? How about being able to get it in the pot and walk away until it’s done? Instant Pot Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes is that kind of meal.
Most families have their own version of meatloaf that they make. There are thousands of variations out there. This Instant Pot Meatloaf recipe is pretty traditional, and tastes really good. A great place to start if you are learning to cook, or if [GASP!] you have never had meatloaf.
The typical sidekick to meatloaf is mashed potatoes. For this Instant Pot Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes recipe, you can cook them at the same time, in the same pot! How great is that? I’ve broken down the steps for you so you can make this yummy dinner with ease.
Start with all of your ingredients gathered together, and your potatoes peeled and quartered. Then it’s all about assembling.
Not everyone likes to cook. If they did, we probably wouldn’t have so many restaurants around! I truly believe that the Instant Pot® electric pressure cooker has reignited the cooking fire in many home cooks, and even in professionals! I know that it opened up a world of culinary possibilities for me, and I love sharing my recipes with you!
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Ingredients
To Cook Potatoes
- 2 ½ lbs Potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 1 ½ cups Chicken Broth (or water, veggie broth, beef broth, etc.) If using 8 qt pot increase to 2 cups
- 2-3 cloves Garlic (optional, to make garlic mashed potatoes)
Meatloaf Mixture
- 2 lbs Ground Beef (I use 90% lean)
- ½ cup Bread Crumbs (I use panko or crushed crackers)
- ⅓ cup Milk
- 2 Eggs
- ⅓ cup Ketchup (or bbq sauce)
- ½ cup Onion (finely chopped or grated on a cheese grater)
- 1 ½ tsp Garlic Powder
- 1 ½ tsp Smoked Paprika (optional)
- ½ tsp Oregano
- ¼ tsp Thyme
- 2 Tbsp Chives, chopped (or parsley, dried or fresh)
- 1 tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Pepper
Meatloaf Topping
- ⅓ cup Ketchup
- ⅓ cup BBQ Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Yellow Mustard
- 1 Tbsp Brown Sugar (optional, to add sweetness)
To Make the Mashed Potatoes
- 4 Tbsp Butter
- 1 tsp Salt
- ½ cup Heavy Cream (or half and half, milk, etc.) As much as you need to get desired creaminess.
- ½ cup Sour Cream (optional)
Tools You'll Need
- 6 qt or 8 qt Pressure Cooker
- Trivet/Rack
- Mixing Bowls
- Aluminum Foil (heavy duty is best)
- Meat Thermometer
- Turkey Baster
- Baking Sheet Pan
Instructions
Set up the Pot and Potatoes
- Put the quartered potatoes in the bottom of the pot. Add the broth and garlic, if using. Set the trivet right on top of the potatoes.
Make the Meatloaf
- Add all of the meatloaf ingredients to a large bowl and use your fingertips to lightly combine thoroughly.
- Place mixture onto a piece of heavy duty foil and shape the meat into a loaf of even thickness. Try not to make it too a thick. If it's too thick you will need to cook it longer.
- Fold the sides of the foil up to make a bowl shape (this will collect the drippings).
- Lift the meatloaf in the foil bowl into the pot and set on the trivet. Make sure there is a little room around it for the steam to circulate.
Cook the Meatloaf
- Place the lid on the pot and set the steam release knob to the Sealing position. Then press the Pressure Cook/Manual button, or dial and then the + or - button or dial to select 30 minutes.
- While the meatloaf and potatoes are cooking, mix up the topping by adding the ketchup, BBQ sauce, mustard, and brown sugar, if using, in a bowl. Set aside.
- When the cook cycle ends, turn off the pot and let it sit for 10 minutes (10 minute natural release). Then turn the steam release knob to the Venting position and do a Quick Release of the remaining steam.
- When the pin in the lid drops down, open it and get a meat thermometer and take the temperature of the meatloaf. Beef should be 160°, turkey should be 165°.If it isn't done, put the lid back on and set time for another 10 minutes and cook it longer (I have never had this happen, but people may put in different ingredients, or may be at a higher altitude, which will affect cooking time).
- Get a turkey baster and a baking sheet pan.
- Use the turkey baster to suction out most of the drippings so that when you lift the meatloaf out of the pot, hot drippings won't spill on you. Just put them in a coffee cup or a bowl.
- Lift the foil with the meatloaf on it out of the pot and onto the baking sheet pan. Spread the topping on the meatloaf and put under the broiler at 425° until it's caramelized to your liking.
Make the Mashed Potatoes
- While the meatloaf is broiling, add the butter and salt to the potatoes, still in the pot, and stir/mash.
- Don't forget about your meatloaf under the broiler! Check on it so it doesn't burn.
- Add as much heavy cream/milk as you wish, and sour cream, if using. Taste and adjust salt, if necessary.
- After you remove the meatloaf from the oven, let it rest a minute while you get the meal served. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Is it possible to substitute Worcester sauce instead of bbq sause?
I would use it sparingly, but yes!
We had this for dinner tonight. The meatloaf was delicious. Mine fell apart at but…maybe I should have added more bread crumbs. The flavor was very good anyway. The glaze was a bit sweet but nice. The potatoes however turned out gummy. I did measure everything exactly so I don’t know what went wrong. Certainly tastes good though. I feel like 3 pounds of potatoes is a bit much for the amount of meat. I’ll absolutely make this again and again but will make a couple of adjustments.
If I use 1.5 pounds of ground beef instead of 2 pounds will the cooking time change?
You can try 25 minutes.
Great recipe! It halves perfectly for the 3qt Instant pot too!
Thank you, Katie! That little 3 qt pot is so fun to use! Glad this recipe worked for you!
My meatloaf was too wet???
Sorry to hear that. Did you try broiling it after pressure cooking? That would help, I think. I can’t say why this happened as I don’t know how closely you followed my recipe. You can add more bread crumbs and/or reduce the milk, though there is only 1/3 cup in there. If it was from the condensation of the pot, maybe try tenting foil loosely over the top before pressure cooking.
I like to cook the potatoes whole with the skin on. I hate peeling potatoes. Make a cut with a knife around the center and after cooking it slides right off. Yes you would have to take them out of pot to remove peels and then put back in to mash.
Would the size of the potatoes affect the cooking time
Yes, the size of the potatoes does affect the cook time. See my Instant Pot Baked Potatoes post for the times I use.
A friend lent me her instant pot that she is not using. Until this past weekend I was not impressed. I made this recipe with the addition of cheese in the meatloaf. My guys who DO NOT like meatloaf loved this recipe. Both said it is a make again. I like the all in one pot ease. I did not need to add any cream to the potatoes so next time I might add a little less broth so I can add cream when mashing the potatoes
That’s so great, Joan! Thank you for your review, I’m so happy you and your guys liked this recipe!
I had never made meatloaf myself even though I almost always enjoy it when I have it. I decided it was time to change that after seeing this recipe. It ended up exactly as I hoped it would. The potatoes were also very tasty and having it all cooking at once was awesome.
I used regular paprika and parsley instead of chives because it was what I had on hand. I also decided to leave off the brown sugar since I was using BBQ that already had brown sugar in it.
I just wish my wife liked meatloaf so I could make this one more often.
Excited to try this as my first recipe in my new Instant Pot. Would I need to adjust the cooking time if I use sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes?
Awesome! As long as you cut the potatoes into chunks, they will be super soft for mashing. If you don’t want them as soft, cut the chunks large. Please let me know how it turned out!
I have made this twice now and LOVE it! I make a 3 pound meatloaf (love leftovers for meatloaf sandwiches) in a circular shape in my 8 quart and cook for 27 minutes with QR and it was amazing both times!