Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice
Easy Instant Pot red beans and rice recipe with canned beans! Cheap one pot pressure cooker dinner idea that's hearty and packed with lots of flavor with uncooked rice, canned kidney beans and kielbasa sausage. Ninja foodi uses the lid that is not attached.
Servings: 6
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 1/4 onion diced
- 6 strips bacon diced
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 2-3 tbsp olive oil
- 12 oz sausage kielbasa, andouille, precooked, diced
- 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 salt, and cumin. Stir. Sprinkle in uncooked rice and submerge into liquid on top, do not stir.
- Put lid on IP and close steam valve. Push rice button, will automatically set for 12 minutes. When it beeps allow to naturally release steam for 2 minutes, then do a quick release, stir, (season more if desired) and serve!
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Nutrition
Serving: 6oz | Calories: 560kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 62mg | Sodium: 1407mg | Potassium: 372mg | Vitamin A: 25IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 39mg | Iron: 1.8mg