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Beef Tips And Rice

March 5, 2021 by Mahy, Updated November 17, 2021 19 Comments

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There’s something super satisfying about tender melt-in-your-mouth beef tips, especially beef tips and rice. Try this Asian inspired beef tips recipe in your instant pot for the tastiest fastest weeknight dinner! Video included and stove top instructions too!

A bowl of beef tips and rice with chopsticks, cucumber rounds red bell peppers and cilantro

Today’s delicious recipe is in partnership with my friends at Sealand Quality Foods. Suppliers of premium quality meats delivered to your door!  All opinions are my own.

You may have noticed I’ve made this Baked Mahi Mahi and the ever so popular Fish Fry recipes using their premium seafood. Today I’ve used the beef tips. 

Let’s talk about why and how to work with beef tips so you can make the most out of this delicious cut of beef!

 

 

 

WHAT ARE BEEF TIPS 

Beef tips on a white plate on a marble with a tea towel showing the cut of meat

Depending on where you buy the beef tips, you can expect them to be either beef Sirloin tips or in my case from Sealand Quality Foods, they were beef tenderloin tips. 

Without a doubt the beef tenderloin is far more superior in taste and texture! However, the sirloin would work beautifully in this recipe as well.

How to Cook Beef Tips? 

The best way to cook beef tips is either in a sauce (like we’ve done today) or to make them into steak bites. Check out my steak bites post and video for everything you need to make delicious steak bites!

If you’re cooking a saucy beef tips recipe, you can make that with a simple seasoning and stock. However, I love an Asian beef tips and rice meal over the classic gravy! It’s our family favorite! 

2 ready made bowls of beef tips and rice with a blue towel and some pink tulips, a bowl of cilantro and sesame seeds, some avocado slices and chopsticks to serve

How to Cook Beef Tips on the Stove

You can make this recipe on the stove or in your instant pot for an even quicker meal! Watch the video above or the detailed step by step instructions below.

For the stove top instructions, scroll down to the TIPS section. Also, you’ll find detailed cooking times for the different cuts of beef tips and cooking method you select.

The bottom line for stove top cooking is simply adjusting cooking time. Also you’ll need to bring the meat to a rigorous boil at first, and then covering your pan really well while dropping the heat to low.

A good dutch oven pan or heavy duty pot is ideal for stove top.

MAKE BEEF TIPS AND RICE

Depending on the cut of beef tips you bought, you’ll need to adjust the cooking time. Details on the cooking times are in the TIPS section below.

A block of frozen beef tips ready to defrost

Again, because this is Asian inspired, I Love serving the beef tips over rice. You may however serve them with noodles or ramen. Something like the Spicy Ramen Bowls recipe I have.

However, in my home, beef tips and rice Asian style are pure comfort food!

Ingredients for Beef Tips and Rice:

Ingredients for beef tips recipe: beef tips on a plate, fresh ginger and fresh garlic, brown sugar, ketchup, soy sauce, rice vinegar, chilli sauce, cilantro

  • Sealand Quality Food Beef Tips
  • Rice vinegar
  • Ketchup
  • Brown Sugar
  • Soy Sauce
  • Fresh ginger
  • Fresh garlic or garlic powder
  • Spicy Chilli Paste (optional for a spice kick)
  • Salt and pepper

In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients above with the beef tips until well coated. At this point you leave it to marinade for a few hours or even overnight in the fridge.

Sauce ingredients mixed in a large bowl

You can also cook it right away since the sauce is super flavorful and you won’t miss out on hours of marinade. 

Beef tips added to the sauce and tossed to coat well in a large bowl

Start with preheating your instant pot on the Sauté function. Do the same for stove top, make sure to start with medium high heat and get your pot really hot.

Beef tips recipe cooking on instant pot or stove at high heat

Add in sesame oil (or any neutral tasting oil) and add in the beef tips right away.

Make sure you don’t add all the remaining sauce with it. Just remove the beef chunks and keep the extra sauce in the same bowl.

Allow the meat to sear and bubble on high heat for two minutes. 

Now you’ll reduce the heat on stove top and add in some water to tenderize the meat. You’ll need to cook the meat on low (simmering) heat for 20 minutes (tenderloin) or 30 minutes (sirloin) for super tender tips.

For the instant pot, you’ll set the pressure cook for 12 minutes (tenderloin) and 20 minutes (sirloin) after adding water as well.

remaining marinade in a bowl with a tablespoon of cornstarch on a marble ready to be added and then coking with the beef tips recipe

To finish off the sauce. You’ll need the remaining marinade sauce you have in the bowl, and to that, you’ll add in a teaspoon of cornstarch.

A whisk is probably the best tool to make sure your cornstarch has completely dissolved. 

Cornstarch mixed into the sauce for the gravy for the beef tips

If you don’t have enough sauce (for example you’ve added it by accident to the pan), it’s ok! You’ll still however need to make the cornstarch sauce with a quarter cup of really cold water.

The cornstarch creates a thick satisfying sauce or gravy with the beef tips recipe. The trick however to make sure the cornstarch dissolves fully is to whisk into a cold liquid.

Finished and ready beef tips recipe on the instant pot and stove top ready to serve with rice

Now add the cornstarch mixture to the pot and bring to a boil for two minutes until the beef tips recipe is done. This is for the stove top.

To continue with the instant pot, you’ll release the pressure when the time is up. And then switch to soup mode. Don’t place the lid back on, just allow the mixture to boil. 

At that point add in the cornstarch mixture and boil it for a couple of minutes until the sauce is ready.

A bowl of beef tips and rice with chopsticks, cucumber rounds red bell peppers and cilantro in a small bowl with a blue towel on the side

Now you’re ready to serve the beef tips and rice!

Sprinkle sesame seeds and cilantro over the plate, and add in your favorite veggies such as cucumber, avocados and peppers.

Serve right away and enjoy!

Another favorite Recipe to make using Beef tips is thisCoq Au Vin! Give it a try! 

TIPS FOR BEEF TIPS RECIPE

  • Start with quality beef tips such as the ones I used from Sealand Quality Foods.
  • Make sure you know if the beef tips you’re buying are sirloin tips or tenderloin, because that will dictate the cooking time.
  • The Asian sauce I’m using is super flavorful so you don’t need to plan for marinade time. You can however prepare it in advance and take advantage of marination.
  • When you start cooking the beef tips, make sure you remove the beef from the sauce and keep the remaining sauce for use later. 
  • Instant Pot: Start with the Sauté function for two min. Add the water, switch to the pressure cook for 12 minutes (tenderloin) or 20 min (sirloin). Release the pressure and switch to soup function (do not close the lid). Now add in the sauce with cornstarch mixture and boil for 2 minutes. And it’s ready!
  • Stove Top: heat a Dutch oven or heavy duty pot over medium high heat and sauté the beef for 2 minutes. Add in the water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to low (the mixture should be still simmering) and cover the pan really well. Cook for 20 minutes (tenderloin) or 30-35 minutes (sirloin), remove the lid and add in the cornstarch mixture. Bring that to a boil and cook for 2 minutes. And it’s ready!
  • The beef tips will be super tender and melt in your mouth, however you can control how chewy or tender you prefer your meat to be by decreasing cooking times by 5 minutes or so. 
  • The cooking times above are based on an inch size cube of beef tips. You may need to adjust time depending on the size of meat you buy, likewise you can cut out the meat to make sure they’re about an inch cube.
  • Leftovers beef tips and rice are great within the next 3 days!

One chop stick holding a beef tip over a bowl of beef tips and rice showing the texture and sauce of the beef tips

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Close up of a single bowl of beef tips recipe and rice showing the texture of the cooked beef tips and the rice

A bowl of beef tips and rice with chopsticks, cucumber rounds red bell peppers and cilantro
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Beef Tips And Rice

There’s something super satisfying about tender melt-in-your-mouth beef tips, especially beef tips and rice. Try this Asian inspired beef tips recipe in your instant pot for the tastiest fastest weeknight dinner! Video included and stove top instructions too!
Course dinner, Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine American, Asian
Keyword Beef Tips, Beef tips and rice, Beef Tips recipe, how to cook beef tips, what are beef tips
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 3
Calories 1094 kcal
Author Mahy

Ingredients

Beef Tips:

  • 2 pounds beef tips maybe either sirloin or tenderloin, about 1 inch size cubes
  • 2 tablespoons oil for cooking the meat sesame oil preferably or any neutral tasting

Sauce:

  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoon rice vinegar
  • 1/4 cup ketchup
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 2 tablespoons fresh ginger minced
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1-2 Tablespoons Spicy Chilli Sauce more or less to taste
  • Salt and pepper optional
  • Water for cooking as needed— about 1/3 cup-1/2 cup depends on the cooking method : 1/4 cup-1/3 cup for the IP, while the 1/2 cup is for stove top

Cornstarch Mix:

  • Remaining sauce from the above about 1/4 cup
  • OR: 1/4 cup cold water
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch packed

Serving:

  • 2 cup cooked white rice
  • 2 tablespoons cilantro minced
  • 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
  • 2 small cucumbers sliced
  • 1 red bell pepper
  • 2 avocados sliced

Instructions

  1. Make sure your beef tips are defrosted and at room temperature.
    Beef tips on a white plate on a marble with a tea towel showing the cut of meat
  2. In a large bowl, mix all the sauce ingredients in a large bowl and add in the beef tips.
    Sauce ingredients mixed in a large bowl
  3. Toss them well to coat in the sauce and you can use them right away or marinate them until you’re ready (overnight at most).
  4. Heat the pan over medium high heat or set the instant pot to sauté.
    Beef tips added to the sauce and tossed to coat well in a large bowl
  5. Add the beef chunks only removing them from the sauce and reserve the excess sauce for later. You should have around 1/4 cup-1/3 cup of sauce left.
    Beef tips recipe cooking on instant pot or stove at high heat
  6. Add the cornstarch to the remaining sauce you have left. Compliment it with cold water if you don’t have enough sauce left.
    remaining marinade in a bowl with a tablespoon of cornstarch on a marble ready to be added and then coking with the beef tips recipe
  7. Cook the meat for two minutes (stove or instant pot).
  8. For the IP : Add in 1/4 cup of water and switch to pressure cooking for 12 minutes (tenderloin cut) or 18 minutes (sirloin).
  9. Release the pressure and switch to soup function (do not close the lid). Now add in the sauce with cornstarch mixture and boil for 2 minutes. And it’s ready!
    Finished and ready beef tips recipe on the instant pot and stove top ready to serve with rice
  10. Stove Top: After sautéing for 2 minutes, add in the water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to low (the mixture should be still simmering) and cover the pan really well.
  11. Cook for 20 minutes (tenderloin) or 30-35 minutes (sirloin), remove the lid and add in the cornstarch mixture. Bring that to a boil and cook for 2 minutes. And it’s ready!
  12. Serve the beef tips over cooked white rice and add in your favorite veggies to the bowl.
    A bowl of beef tips and rice with chopsticks, cucumber rounds red bell peppers and cilantro
  13. Sprinkle some cilantro and sesame seeds if you like.
  14. Serve right away and enjoy!

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

TIPS FOR BEEF TIPS RECIPE

  1. Start with quality beef tips such as the ones I used from Sealand Quality Foods.
  2. Make sure you know if the beef tips you’re buying are sirloin tips or tenderloin, because that will dictate the cooking time.
  3. The Asian sauce I’m using is super flavorful so you don’t need to plan for marinade time. You can however prepare it in advance and take advantage of marination.
  4. When you start cooking the beef tips, make sure you remove the beef from the sauce and keep the remaining sauce for use later.
  5. Instant Pot: Start with the Sauté function for two min. Add the water, switch to the pressure cook for 12 minutes (tenderloin) or 20 min (sirloin). Release the pressure and switch to soup function (do not close the lid). Now add in the sauce with cornstarch mixture and boil for 2 minutes. And it’s ready!
  6. Stove Top: heat a Dutch oven or heavy duty pot over medium high heat and sauté the beef for 2 minutes. Add in the water and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to low (the mixture should be still simmering) and cover the pan really well. Cook for 20 minutes (tenderloin) or 30-35 minutes (sirloin), remove the lid and add in the cornstarch mixture. Bring that to a boil and cook for 2 minutes. And it’s ready!
  7. The beef tips will be super tender and melt in your mouth, however you can control how chewy or tender you prefer your meat to be by decreasing cooking times by 5 minutes or so.
  8. The cooking times above are based on an inch size cube of beef tips. You may need to adjust time depending on the size of meat you buy, likewise you can cut out the meat to make sure they’re about an inch cube.
  9. Leftovers beef tips and rice are great within the next 3 days.
Nutrition Facts
Beef Tips And Rice
Amount Per Serving
Calories 1094 Calories from Fat 468
% Daily Value*
Fat 52g80%
Saturated Fat 11g69%
Trans Fat 1g
Cholesterol 194mg65%
Sodium 1508mg66%
Potassium 2316mg66%
Carbohydrates 80g27%
Fiber 13g54%
Sugar 31g34%
Protein 78g156%
Vitamin A 1703IU34%
Vitamin C 73mg88%
Calcium 233mg23%
Iron 8mg44%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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  1. Kim

    December 15, 2024 at 8:01 pm

    I just happened to have all of the ingredients on hand plus I added some onions, trumpet mushrooms and cooked my peppers as they were green bells and not red (stronger flavor) and it turned out great! Nice and spicy. The family raved about it – thanks for sharing. This is definately a keeper!

    Reply
    • Meghan Caissie

      January 22, 2025 at 5:46 pm

      I don’t usually leave reviews but I took a bite of this and full stop was blown away because it was beyond my expectations! Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner for two teachers. We added chopped sautéed bok choi, carrots and garlic as the vegetables.

      Reply
      • Mahy

        January 22, 2025 at 7:29 pm

        Thank you Meghan, so happy you enjoyed it! I love the veggies you added in too!

        Reply
  2. john

    August 31, 2022 at 1:30 pm

    am i missing the measurements for ingredients?

    Reply
  3. Jim

    April 11, 2022 at 11:27 pm

    Could I do the sauce and throw the beef tips in a slow cooker with the sauce.

    Reply
    • Mahy

      April 22, 2022 at 10:49 am

      Yes absolutely! But be careful not to over cook the meat (it depends on the cut of meat you have).

      Reply
  4. Kris

    February 14, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    5 stars
    I accidentally put the sauce in the instant when I cooked the meat, and it still came out great lol.
    This was a fabulous recipe. I love trying all sort of sacues for my stir frys. And since hubby and the baby approved, it’s definitely a keeper.

    Reply
    • Mahy

      February 17, 2022 at 2:39 pm

      Oh that’s so good to hear!! So happy you enjoyed it too!!!

      Reply
  5. Jacqueline Meldrum

    March 7, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    5 stars
    Gorgeous photos and don’t the sesame seeds finish it off beautifully.

    Reply
  6. Sandhya S

    March 7, 2021 at 9:29 am

    5 stars
    That sauce is yummilicious. We are a huge fan of Asian rice bowl with salad and Instant Pot rocks at cooking it super fast.

    Reply
    • Mahy

      March 7, 2021 at 11:37 am

      Thank you Sandhya!

      Reply
  7. Adrianne

    March 6, 2021 at 10:09 pm

    5 stars
    That sauce looks to die for!! Yum. This would be so good any night of the week. I love that you have shown an Instant Pot AND stove top method – very handy! Thanks

    Reply
    • Mahy

      March 7, 2021 at 11:38 am

      The sauce is so good with the beef tips!!

      Reply
  8. Jeannette

    March 6, 2021 at 9:27 pm

    5 stars
    Beef tips are SO good and it’s great using every part of what you’re cooking. Asian flavors go so well with them too! Melt-in-your-mouth goodness 😀

    Reply
    • Mahy

      March 7, 2021 at 11:38 am

      Thanks Jeannette!

      Reply
  9. Irina

    March 6, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    5 stars
    The way you serve the meal is so delicious that there is no question that I am going to give it a try! It sounds amazingly delicious!!!

    Reply
    • Mahy

      March 7, 2021 at 11:38 am

      Hope you enjoy it Irina!

      Reply
  10. Biana

    March 6, 2021 at 2:53 pm

    5 stars
    This looks delicious, I like that you can make it really fast in the Instant Pot!

    Reply
    • Mahy

      March 7, 2021 at 11:38 am

      Yes!!

      Reply
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