I love cooking rice in my electric pressure cooker. It’s set it and forget it easy. It cooks in half the time and you just throw the rice, water and a little salt in the pot, lock the lid in place, set the cook time and press start. When the timer beeps, you turn off the pressure cooker and wait for the pressure to naturally release.
When you open the lid all the water will be absorbed and you’ll have perfectly cooked, slightly sticky rice. Similar to rice cooked in a rice cooker or from an Asian restaurant.
The Cuisinart recipe booklet recommends cooking brown rice in a large amount of water. But the Veggie Queen in her new ebook The New Fast Food™: The Veggie Queen™ Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes recommends using only 1 1/2 cups of water for a cup of brown rice. I followed Jill’s guidelines with great results.
Jill sent me a copy of her ebook when she was guest posting about How to Cook Beans. I refer to it often when developing recipes for the electric pressure cooker. It’s a great resource and you can download it for only $12.95. She’s also generously offered to giveaway one copy to one lucky Pressure Cooker Today reader. Details on how to enter are at the bottom of this post.
If you’re not cooking rice in a pressure cooker, you need to give it a try. I intend to cook it that way from now on.
Ingredients
- 2 cup brown rice (I used short grain)
- 2 3/4 cups water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- Combine the rice, water and salt in the pressure cooker pot. Lock the lid in place and select High Pressure and 22 minutes cook time. When beep sounds turn off pressure cooker and use a natural pressure release to release pressure (approximately 20 minutes). If you're in a hurry you can use a Natural Pressure for 10 minutes, followed by Quick Pressure Release.
- When valve drops, carefully remove lid tilting it away from you. Fluff rice with a fork.
Update: The giveaway is now closed. Congratulations Tara!
Here’s How To Enter the Sweepstakes Giveaway:
If you would like to win a copy of the Veggie Queen’s new ebook, The New Fast Food™: The Veggie Queen™ Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes, leave a comment on this post before Wednesday, December 5th at noon, MST.
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Today's pressure cookers aren't the scary pressure cookers you may remember. I'll share what I'm cooking up in my pressure cooker and I hope you'll share what you're cooking too.
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Fun giveaway! I’m new to pressure cooking… this would be wonderful to win-
How great is this. Would love to have the book and try out the recipes!
This book looks great! I have to admit that I have never made rice in the pressure cooker without it being combined with other ingredients. I’m excited to try that!
This is excellent! I’ve been searching for a while for a good brown rice recipe to use with my pressure cooker. Thanks! (The book looks great as well)
i’m new to pressure cooking so would love to pick up ideas from the book
already a subscriber via rss
interesting, right now I am investigating pressure cookers, start student teaching in January – need meals FAST! This book would be great since I have zero recipes. I follow another person that tweeted about this site! So I am a newbie!
Welcome! The pressure cooker is definitely the perfect way to make healthy meals fast. On Sunday, December 9, I’m going to host another pressure cooker giveaway! So be sure and stop back by.
I would love to win the cook book. Thanks for the chance to enter.
I am an email subscriber of yours. Thanks for the chance to enter.
I am a pinterest follower of yours. Thanks for the chance to enter.
I love your site – and my pressure cooker! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I would love to win the cook book.
Happy Holidays!
I am an email subscriber of yours!
I am a pinterest follower of yours..
I would love to learn new ways to use my pressure cooker.
I would love to win this cookbook.
it’d be great to win this book…learn more about slow/pressure cooking
great giveaway!
Like many commenters I’m also new to pressure cooking and a cook book would be tremendously helpful.
Yay! I hope I win!
I’m trying to use my pressure cooker for more than beans!
I just followed you on Pinterest!
Wish I would have kept my Mom’s big old pressure cooker when she passed away. Now i gotta get new hardware to explore Jill’s receipes!
I subscribed to you in a reader – Yahoo.
Would love to win this. My mom used to use a pressure cooker, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Being new to pressure cookers, I would love to have Jills book, thank you for the chance to win!
Woohoo! It’s awesome cookbook giveaway time!
I’ve been cooking for years and stopped pressure cooking when my family downsized. I’m finding out that people can pressure cook for one or two. It would be wonderful to win!
I still have one of the old pressure cookers that belonged to my Mom but I have not really used it much. I am hoping to get ideas here and a cooker with a timer would be WONDERFUL.
Just subscribed on Pinterest
Thank you for the opportunity to win the cookbook. Congratulations to whomever does win!
I sure need to do more cooking with the pressure cooker….there’s so many great things I’m missing out on!
I’m following you on Pinterest!
I’m an email subscriber!
I’m trying to encourage a vegan friend of mine to purchase a pressure cooker and start using Jill’s book. If I win the book I will give it to my friend — I think it will be just the thing to motivate her to buy a PC as well. I KNOW she will be excited to find how much time she can save in the kitchen when cooking her vegan favorites in a pressure cooker – and she can’t learn from anyone better than Jill.
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I’m following you on Pinterest.
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Would love to have this cookbook—-we’ve cut back on meat consumption and increased vegetables and grains and I would love some new ways of creating meals
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I registered for email updates