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food : rice and beans (instant pot)

We had been wanting to vary up our rice dishes (I tend toward Indian, Chinese, and Japanese oriented rice dishes), and my wife sent me a few recipes. They made their way into this form after looking in our cupboards and shifting things to work for the instant pot.

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient
1.75CLong Grain White Rice
2TOil (I use peanut)
0.5Onion (medium, diced)
2Garlic (cloves, chopped)
0.5tSmoked Paprika
1tCumin (ground)
0.5tOregano
1.5CVeggie Stock (I use a bouillon cube)
8ozTomato Sauce (small can, see notes)
1tSalt
1canPinto Beans

Instructions

  1. Rinse and drain rice
  2. Turn on the instant pot and set to "saute" mode. Add oil
  3. Once hot add onion and stir until soft
  4. Add garlic and stir for ~30 seconds
  5. Add rice, stir, cook until rice slightly changes color (tending toward golden), do not burn
  6. Add spices and give a good stir or few
  7. Turn of "saute" mode, add stock, salt, and tomato sauce, stir
  8. Put on lid, set to "sealing", set the instant pot to "rice" mode
  9. When finished cooking, let pressure release naturally for at least 5 minutes
  10. Release pressure, take off lid, add pinto beans and stir in
  11. Put lid back on, leave on warming mode for 3-5 minutes to heat up the beans and let the rice finish softening up a little bit more

Notes