The best Instant Pot red beans and rice recipe ever! Really easy to make and cheap too. Great pressure cooker dinner idea that’s hearty and packed with lots of flavor. Using uncooked rice and a few other ingredients it’s a one pot meal my kids absolutely love.
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. (originally published 3/17)
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.
Equipment you need to make pressure cooker red beans and rice
- Pressure cooker – we have an Instant Pot but there are many other brands
- Wooden spoon – my preference when cooking, especially sauteeing in my pot
- Knife to dice your onion, bacon and sausage
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 what you’ll need to make this easy Instant Pot beans and rice recipe
- Onion
- Bacon
- Sausage -Andouille is best
- Can of red beans
- Chicken broth
- Rice – white, long grain uncooked
- Spices
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
This is how we made it, and the complete Instant Pot red beans and rice recipe is below for you.
Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice
Ingredients
- 1/4 onion diced
- 6 strips bacon diced
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 2-3 tbsp olive oil
- 12 oz Andouille sausage precooked, dice
- 1 can red beans drained
- 2 c rice uncooked
- 2 1/2 c chicken broth
- 2 c water
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Put Instant Pot on saute, high.
- Add olive oil. Add onions, garlic and bacon and cook down until bacon cooks a bit and onions soften.
- Add precooked sausage and warm along side other ingredients.
- Turn off IP by pressing cancel. Add red beans, drained and rinsed.
- 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.
- Add uncooked rice, salt, and cumin. Stir.
- 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!
Video
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Do I precook the sausage before putting in, or was is it because it’s already precooked that it mentions that?
Oops, was it*
The best red beans and rice I have ever had! Thanks for sharing.
So glad!!
Hi & Thank you for all your yummy recipes! In the video you put in a cube of butter but is not in the recipe. Or did I miss something?
Disregard that apparently the video jumped to a different recipe… Thanks again for your wonderful recipes!
I just bought a 3 qt Instant Pot will this recipe work, or do I need to cut the ingredients a bit?
looks delicious, cant wait to try it
Cut all my recipes in half for the 3 qt. pot. 😉
So so good! Even all four of my kids liked it. That never happens! We will make again. The bacon didn’t want to crisp up but was excellent otherwise.
So glad!
made this and it was really easy. Followed the recipe and turned out great. Thanks!
Awesome!
Turned out great and the kids loved it! I used Polska kielbasa with brown rice and doubled the time. I checked it after 12 min, it wasn’t done, so did another 12 min on rice setting and it was perfect!
So glad!!
I have a bag of dry red beans that I want to use. I am new to this whole instapot thing so how would using those change the cooking times? Thank you.
Made this and it came out perfect. Will definitely make it again. The only problem was I didn’t want to stop eating it. Great recipe.
Yeah!! So glad.
Thanks for the recipe. It was very tasty! I’m afraid that something is wrong with my new instant pot, though. It took 10 min just to pressurize (on rice) before the 12 minute count down even started. It ended up being about 22 minutes before it beeped and the rice was a little bit mushy. Is this amount of time normal? I followed your 2 cups water and only 2 cups broth recommendation.
It does take some time to pressurize, I haven’t timed how long it takes. If you prefer your rice more al dente just use less liquid when cooking. Everyone has different preferences, glad you liked it.
I m going to make your recipe one question how do you turn off an instant pot
The bottom right button turns it off.
Would the time or the amount of chicken broth change for brown rice? I can’t wait to try this!
Haven’t tried with brown rice, maybe increase a few minutes and check. Let me know!
Do you use regular or minute rice for this recipe? Do you precook the bacon?
Regular rice, and I cook the bacon in the IP on saute first.
This looks great! Do you precook the bacon and then dice it, or cut it up and then cook in the instant pot?