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    Home » Recipes by Type » Pressure cooker

    Pressure Cooker Coconut Rice

    Published: Jul 25, 2017 · Modified: Aug 2, 2019 by Mike Vrobel · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

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    Pressure Cooker Coconut Rice

    One of my pressure cooker’s killer apps is weeknight Thai curries. I love the hands-off meal - stir everything into the instant pot, lock the lid, and I can unlock the lid to dinner. Well, almost - I can’t enjoy a curry without rice to soak up the delicious, spicy sauce.

    My favorite side dish for Thai curries is coconut rice. Now, if I only owned one pressure cooker, I’d make it on the stovetop. But I own many pressure cookers…probably too many…and I can always pull out one of my backup cookers to make a batch pressure cooker coconut rice.

    This is a simple recipe. It has four ingredients, and two of them are water and salt. The tricky ingredients are jasmine rice and coconut milk. They’re easy to find in your local grocery store nowadays; look in the asian food section of your international aisle. But, if you use them as much as I do, find your local Asian market. They will almost always have the coconut milk cheaper, and I buy jasmine rice in big, 25 pound bags. (We go through a lot of rice in my house.)

    Two other questions I get asked:

    Why don’t you use the rice function on your Instant Pot?

    Two reasons. One, I want to write a generic “pressure cooker” recipe, not an Instant Pot specific one. I don’t know what kind of cooker you have, so I don’t know if I can trust the rice cooker function. Two, I’ve been making pressure cooker rice since before there were Instant Pots - I’m used to this method, and it works great. I’ve never felt the need to try out the rice function.

    This doesn’t seem faster than stovetop rice - why bother?

    It’s true, with “up to pressure” time and natural release time, it’s not a whole lot faster than stovetop rice. (It is faster - but only by a few minutes. It’s not a the time savings you get from pressure cooking a long-simmering stew.) My answer is convenience - I can stir everything into my pot, lock the lid, push the buttons, and I don’t have to worry about the rice until the natural pressure release is done. Easy peasy.

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    Pressure Cooker Coconut Rice | DadCooksDinner.com

    Pressure Cooker Coconut Rice


    • Author: Mike Vrobel
    • Total Time: 25 minutes
    • Yield: 3 cups of rice 1x
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    Pressure Cooker Coconut Rice recipe - quick and easy rice side dish from the pressure cooker.


    Ingredients

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    • 2 cups jasmine rice (or long grain white rice)
    • ½ teaspoon fine sea salt (or table salt)
    • 13.5-ounce can Coconut Milk
    • 1 cup water

    Instructions

    1. Add the everything to the pot: Add the rice to the pot, sprinkle with the salt, then stir in the coconut milk and the water. (The coconut cream may be thick - keep stirring until it is mostly broken up.)
    2. Pressure cook the rice for 4 minutes, with a 10 minute natural pressure release: Lock the lid and pressure cook on high pressure for 4 minutes. Turn off warming mode and let pressure come down for 10 minutes, then quick release any remaining pressure in the pot. Fluff the rice with a fork and serve.

    Notes

    Make sure to use coconut milk, not Cream of Coconut, a sweetened ingredient for use in Pina Coladas. Tools

    • 6 quart or larger pressure cooker I love my Instant Pot electric pressure cooker
    • Prep Time: 5 minutes
    • Cook Time: 20 minutes
    • Category: Side Dish
    • Method: Pressure Cooker

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    1. Anne says

      October 16, 2018 at 5:32 pm

      Hi! I am just learning how to use my Instant Pot. If I double this recipe, do you think it would fit in my 6 qt pot?

      Thanks!

      Reply
      • Mike Vrobel says

        October 16, 2018 at 7:42 pm

        Yes, you can double this recipe in a 6 quart IP.

        Reply
    2. Megan says

      October 08, 2017 at 7:43 pm

      Did you rinse the rice? That would add some water so want to be sure.

      Reply
      • Mike Vrobel says

        October 08, 2017 at 8:26 pm

        Nope. I add dry rice to the pot.

        Reply
    3. Aaron Friedman says

      July 27, 2017 at 9:22 am

      This looks like a good place to use the "light" coconut milk I bought by mistake.

      Reply
    4. Chrissy says

      July 25, 2017 at 11:05 am

      Can basmati rice be used?

      Reply

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