Pressure Cooker Spanish Rice

By Foodiewife

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup onion, diced
• 1 cup long grain white rice
• 1 1/4 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup mild salsa

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from pressurecookingtoday.com

Preparation

Step 1

Directions

Select Sauté and add oil to cooking pot. When hot, add the onions. Cook, stirring occasionally until onion is tender, about 3 to 5 minutes.

Stir in rice and cook, stirring frequently, until rice becomes opaque, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add broth and salsa. Cover and lock lid in place. Select High Pressure and set timer for 4 minutes. When beep sounds wait 5 minutes and then use a Quick Pressure Release to release pressure.

Fluff rice with a fork and serve immediately.

Can I make this with brown rice?

Hi Jennifer – I haven’t tried it, but you could make it with brown rice and follow the cook time for brown rice

thanks! should I also use the same brown rice to liquid ratio according to that recipe? I also plan to make this using 2 cups brown rice.

Hi Rayma. One cup of dry rice makes about three cups of cooked rice. So it will make about six half cup servings.

Hi Alicia – I love cooking rice in my electric pressure cooker. I cook rice at least once a week in it. The concern manufacturers have is that rice may foam when cooked in the pressure cooker causing the valve to clog. In America’s Test Kitchen’s new pressure cooking cookbook they recommend rinsing the rice well to avoid foaming. My pressure cooking manuals suggest adding oil to the cooking liquid to avoid foaming. I hope that helps.

That is very helpful! Thank you. I always rinse our rice quite a lot before cooking anyway to reduce the residual arsenic levels and I do add a good “glug” of olive oil too, so it shouldn’t foam up as much anyway. Thanks so much!

Added pot roast back.

Squeezed juice of 1 medium orange and threw 3 strips of orange peel in. Added 1 can low sodium beef stock.

Then I added a slurry of potato starch and thickened the sauce.

Added a good handful of chopped fresh cilantro before serving.

Perfect! What a quick and easy way to make Mexican Rice……I always bake mine in the oven-what was I thinking?

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