Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice

The best Instant Pot red beans and rice recipe ever! The easiest pressure cooker rice and beans I’ve made and my kids absolutely love it too!

We’re back with another favorite pressure cooker meal, this Instant Pot red beans and rice……it came out great! It took a total of about 20 minutes or so to make and even the kids thought it was super flavorful! If you’ve been following The Typical Mom for any length of time you know we love easy & quick recipes the whole family will enjoy. This one made it to our list of fabulous Instant Pot recipes, perfect for any time of year.

Instead of dry beans we used canned so it would cook faster, and instead of just water we used chicken broth to cook the rice (that gave it a great added flavor). Everyone is a bit different. Some like red beans and rice a bit soupier in it’s consistency, we like it on the drier side but you can make it either way with this recipe. Just add a bit more chicken broth or water before you put your Instant Pot lid on and it will come out just as you had envisioned it. I ate a lot of this in Louisiana when I lived down South, plus crawfish (oh so good), gumbo and more. Typically it is quite a lengthy process but there is always a way you can simplify things, that is what we did for you here.

This is how we made it, and the complete rice and beans recipe is below for you.

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice

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Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

12 mins

Total Time

22 mins

 

Really easy Instant Pot red beans and rice recipe that requires NO soaking your beans and comes out with tons of flavor and as much spice as you'd like! Simple pressure cooker Southern dish that all of us love.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Servings: 6

Calories: 560 kcal

Author: The Typical Mom

Ingredients

• 1/4 onion diced
• 6 pcs. bacon diced
• 1 tbsp minced garlic
• 2-3 tbsp olive oil
• 12 oz Andouille sausage precooked, dice
• 1 can red beans drained
• 2 c uncooked rice
• 2 1/2 c chicken broth
• 2 c water
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp salt

Instructions

1. Put Instant Pot on saute, high. 

2. Add olive oil. Add onions, garlic and bacon and cook down until bacon cooks a bit and onions soften. 
3. Add precooked sausage and warm along side other ingredients. 
4. Turn off IP. Add red beans, drained. 

5. Add chicken broth and water (we used 2 c. of each to look like this picture, if you want it wetter add an extra 1/2-1 c. chicken broth for a soupier consistency). Stir. 

6. Add uncooked rice, salt, and cumin. Stir. 

7. Put lid on IP and close steam valve. Push rice button, low pressure, set for 12 minutes (sets like this automatically for me when I press rice). When it beeps do a quick release, stir, (season more if desired) and serve!

Nutrition Facts

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice

Amount Per Serving

Calories 560 Calories from Fat 270

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 30g 46%

Saturated Fat 8g 40%

Cholesterol 62mg 21%

Sodium 1407mg 59%

Potassium 372mg 11%

Total Carbohydrates 51g 17%

Protein 18g 36%

Vitamin A 0.5%

Vitamin C 9.7%

Calcium 3.9%

Iron 9.8%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

It has a great flavor, and tons of it! If you are not about a lot of spice use a different type of sausage as opposed to Andouille as that is where a lot of the spiciness comes from. I am not a spice loving person but this is just perfect for me and my kids enjoy it too for dinner. It feeds the 5 of us with leftovers for lunch the next day as well which makes it a really inexpensive meal idea.

Looking for more easy Instant Pot recipes?

• Instant Pot chili
• Instant Pot rice pudding
• Instant Pot chili mac

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