One pot instant pot rice and beans recipe! This pressure cooker rice and beans is full of flavour, easy to cook and absolutely delicious. It makes use of few ingredients and cooks in less than 30 minutes. Let me show you how to cook Jamaican rice and beans in your instant pot with this step by step guide.
2tablespoonOilvegetable, sunflower, coconut or olive oil
Saltto taste
3.5cupsWater or broth3.25 cups if using coconut milk
¼cupCoconut milkoptional
Instructions
Wash rice with warm water 3- 4 times or till water runs clear.
Set instant pot to saute then add oil in the pot of the instant pot. Add onion and saute for a minute or till onions transclucent. Turn off the saute mode.
Add washed rice in the pot then add in beans, water,onion, pepper, thyme and salt. Deglaze the pot and add coconut milk on top.
Cover the instant pot with it's lid, lock securely and turn the knob to sealing position. Set to manual pressure cook high 8 minutes.
After the pressure cooking, do 10 minutes natural pressure release. When pot is depressured, take the lid off and fluff rice and beans.
Serve and enjoy with sides of choice.
Notes
Can i use brown rice?Yes you can but brown rice takes longer to cook so pressure cook for 25 minutes instead of 10 minutes stated for long grain rice.Can i use dried beans?As dried beans takes longer to cook than canned ones, you will have to cook the dried beans first before adding rice and other ingredients.Tips
Deglaze instant pot after adding in water as some bits might be stuck on the bottom of the pot after sauteing onion.
If your instant pot is sensitive to burn error, add the beans last in the pot and don't stir in.
It's important to deglaze pot after sauteeing onion so you don't get burn error message.
Wash rice with warm water atleast 2-3 times or till water runs clear.
Replace water with broth for more flavour.
You can replace kidney beans in this recipe for black beans, pinto or black eyed beans.
Substitute scotch bonnet with black pepper or cayenne pepper.