Instant Pot Mexican Rice

This go-to recipe for Instant Pot Mexican Rice (Spanish Rice) is a quick & easy side dish...ready in 15 minutes! Made in a pressure cooker with tomatoes, cilantro, onion, garlic, and white rice.

butter onion garlic long-grain white rice Rotel tomatoes & green chiles tomato sauce diced tomatoes chicken broth chili powder cumin cayenne pepper salt cilantro

Ingredients

1

Set the Instant Pot to saute mode. Once hot, add butter. Once butter is melted, add chopped onion. Brown onion for 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally.

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2

Add rice and garlic to butter/onion mixture. Cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring frequently, until rice is just starting to brown.

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3

Add Rotel and diced tomatoes; stir, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot. After about a minute, add chicken broth, cumin, chili powder, and cayenne pepper. Stir well and lock on Instant Pot lid.

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4

Set the Instant Pot to manual, high pressure, for 7 minutes. Once cook cycle is up, fluff rice with a fork and add in half of the chopped cilantro.

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