Instant Pot Brown Rice
The only method for perfectly cooked brown rice every time.
Equipment
- 1 Pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown rice
- 1.25 cup water
Instructions
- Rinse your rice under running water until the water is clear. This removes excess starch that causes the rice to stick together.
- Put your rice into the pressure cooker and add one and one quarter cup of water. If you are making multiple serves or scaling ensure the ratio is 1:1.25
- Set your Instant Pot / pressure cooker to cook for 15 minutes.
- Allow the Instant Pot to naturally release for 10 minutes. After ten minutes carefully open the vent to release any remaining steam.
- Fluff the rice with a spoon and serve.
- Note: If the rice has moisture, let it sit with the lid off for a minutes to steam away.
Notes
This method will give you three modest servings of brown rice. If you eat a lot of rice or you’re an athlete then two servings is more accurate.
I encourage you to use three servings as this works better with the InstantPot. Two servings (2/3 cup of rice and just under 1 cup of water) may result in too little water in the pot. This makes it difficult for the Instant Pot to pressurise and may lead to an error message during cooking.
If you are scaling up this recipe ensure the ratio is kept at 1:25. The cooking and release time will be the same regardless of the amount of rice you’re making.
If an error does occur during cooking indicating there isn’t enough water / steam don’t panic. We’ve had this happen before. If time permits, allow the rice to continue to cook and give the full time of natural release. Open the Instant Pot and check the rice to see if it is adequately cooked.
In the two times this happened for us the rice was absolutely fine and cooked perfectly.