Munchie Monday: Perfect Instant Pot Brown Rice--a Day Late!

Recently I was browsing brown rice recipes on the internet.  The big news is that you make the rice using 1 cup rice to 1 cup water!!  No matter what kind of rice you are using.  I tried that.  It worked.

In this case I used some vegetable broth I made in the Instant Pot in place of water.  I set the timer for 2 minutes of cooking on High.  Then I left the cooker to release naturally for 22 minutes.  The rice was perfect.

Well,  the above is what I wrote before I checked the rice.  Now I will tell what I did next...

Rice the first time

The rice was not even remotely cooked!  I had used the Rice mode, forgetting that the rice mode is low pressure.  After the IP pressure was released, I checked it out, stirred the rice in the small bowl I had set inside the inner pot, then reset the IP going at 15 minutes at high pressure.


Final note:  The third time is the charm--I had forgotten that it should have been:cook the rice for 22 minutes then let pressure release naturally for 18-22 minutes, though in this case I was busy watching the new driveway being made and left the pressure release for 30 minutes.  Rice was still good.

Last brown rice trial was successful.  1.25 cups rice and a tiny bit more vegetable broth since I did not want to toss our the last couple of tablespoons of broth in the jar.