Instant Pot Beef Barley and Mushroom Soup

Used chicken and chicken broth instead of beef and beef broth. Added tomato paste as suggested. Additional seasoning because household likes spice. Slow cooked instead of pressure cooked. Great recipe.

Add tomato paste

This was great and easy. We used italian herb Better than Boullion. Next time I will use our dried morels instead of grocery store mushrooms.

I couldn’t find regular pearl barley so I used Quaker quick barley and made it separately so it wouldn’t over cook.

Added a can of tomato paste (saw it suggested in another’s notes).

Perfect for winter. Make sure you taste so you can add your spices the way you like. 😉

I added a tbsp of tomato paste, prior to cooking, as recommended by another user - turned out great!

Topped it off with nutmeg and it really brought out the flavor. Without it very bland. Will make again!

Made this with ground beef because it was $24 for a kilogram of stewing beef and I'm not paying that and I used way more spices and I would highly recommend a can of tomato paste to give that broth some more depth flavor and thickness