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Instant Pot Jasmine Rice
Instant Pot jasmine rice is fluffy, reliable, and so straightforward to mix. You don't need a rice cooker to have the most rich, evenly cooked rice for your next stir fry dinner!
Instant Pot Jasmine Rice is fluffy, reliable, and so straightforward to mix. You don’t need a rice cooker to have the most rich, evenly cooked rice for your next stir fry dinner!
As promised when we shared the sweet chili chicken stir fry recipe, here’s the recipe for Instant Pot jasmine rice! Jasmine rice is one of our absolute favorite things. It has a standby flavor and it’s reliable with any type of stir fry recipe. Did you know that leftover rice is reliable (essential!) for making tasty Fried Rice? And dont
Jasmine rice is the reliable accompaniment to this honey balsamic chicken with crispy vegetables, an oven roasted sheet pan dinner. We always serve jasmine rice to soak up the rich creamy wine sauce in this chicken recipe.
Or we love jasmine rice completely by itself. With butter.
There aren’t many things better than buttered rice, am we right? Well, maybe creamy risotto.
It’s so straightforward to mix jasmine rice in your pressure cooker. As you all probably already know, we have an Instant Pot, but this will work in any type of electric pressure cooker.
We make three cups of rice (meaning we use three cups of dry rice), but you could also use this method to prepare as little as 1 cup of dry rice. We always like to make a lot of rice while we're at it. You can store the cooked rice in the fridge or freezer to use for other meals.
The ratio is one to one (1:1), so it’s straightforward to remember! We usually use water for the liquid, but you could also use broth. We love the flavor of the jasmine rice so we like it to shine through on its own.
We add a little oil to help prevent the rice from sticking together. We like coconut oil because it complements the flavor of the rice so well, but you could use any type of oil you like, or butter. And don’t forget salt to bring out the flavors of the rice, especially if you’re cooking in water.
One important step to remember when cooking rice in a pressure cooker is to rinse your rice first. Rinsing will keep the rice from foaming up too much and sputtering out the valve, making a huge mess (any Instant Pot owners know what we're talking about here?).
You’re going to want to make an ultra large batch of this jasmine rice, because it is absolutely irresistible!
FAQs of making Instant Pot Jasmine Rice:
- What is the cook time or how long do you cook jasmine rice in the pressure cooker? Jasmine rice cooks in a pressure cooker in 5 minutes on high with a 10 minute natural release.
- What is the rice to water ratio for cooking rice in the Instant Pot? You want to use a 1:1 ratio of rice to water, so for every 1 cup of rice, you’ll use 1 cup of water (or broth).
- What setting do we use? We almost always just do a manual setting, but we're sure your rice setting will work too – just set the time for the amount of time directed in the recipe.
Did you know you can also make quinoa in the Instant Pot? Along with a million other things…make sure to read our complete guide to cooking with an Instant Pot; you’ll find all our Instant Pot recipes there too.
- Yield: 9 servings
- Prep: 5 minutes
- Cook: 5 minutes
- Total: 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 3 cups jasmine rice (see note)
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon oil (coconut oil, olive oil, butter)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Method
- Put rice in a fine mesh strainer and rinse well until water runs clear.
- Add rice to the insert of a 6 quart Instant Pot. Add water, oil, and salt. pushing down any rice that may be on the side of the pot to submerge in liquid.
- Secure cover, turn valve to seal, and set Instant Pot to Pressure Cook for 5 minutes (or on Manual, high pressure). When the timer goes off, let the pressure naturally release for 10 minutes (in other words, leave it alone for 10 minutes).
- When 10 minutes has elapsed, quick release any remaining pressure. Remove lid, fluff the rice with a fork, and serve.
Notes
Makes about 9 cups cooked rice.
You can adjust the quantity easily as long as you keep the ratio of 1 cup rice: 1 cup water. Cook time remains the same: pressure cook for 5 minutes, with 10 minutes natural release. The time it takes the Instant Pot to come to full pressure will change.
