An ink jet recording method includes attaching an ink composition, with which a pressure chamber of an ink jet head is filled, to a recording medium by discharging the ink composition via a nozzle port, in which the ink jet head includes a step between the pressure chamber and the nozzle port, the ink composition contains water, a resin, and an organic solvent including at least a nitrogen-containing solvent, and the organic solvent includes an organic solvent, in which a difference in a SP value between the organic solvent and the resin is within 5, in a range of 0.1 part by mass to 0.4 parts by mass with respect to 1 part by mass of water, and does not include an organic solvent which has a standard boiling point of equal to higher than 280° C. and the content of more than 5% by mass in the ink composition.