Brown Rice and Quinoa Pilaf in Instant Pot

I’ve had a couple of instant-microwave envelopes of quinoa and brown rice and decided I should make it myself, so I googled and found a few recipes for this. The way I’m making it is really a pilaf – defined as dish of rice cooked in stock with spices – since I’m using my homemade chicken/vegetable broth/stock. Also, unlike the microwave envelopes, I am adding onion, celery and garlic.

The recipes I found all used similar techniques but a bit different amounts – I used long grain brown rice and tri-color quinoa 1:1, and I added a can of black beans at the end before I portioned it out for freezing. Each recipe used a really different cooking time in the IP, so I went with the longest, 22 minutes, knowing it might obliterate the individual quinoa grains which don’t take nearly as much time to cook. I just didn’t want chewy, under-cooked brown rice, which takes 45-50 minutes on the stove. 22 minutes was perfect – in fact, the quinoa is fine and the rice is just cooked – maybe could have gone 1 minute more! Or maybe a longer NPR. I suspect it might have been not enough liquid – I had a 16 ounce Mason jar of my homemade broth that might not have been a full 16 ounces and I didn’t measure it, I just poured it in.

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Brown Rice and Quinoa Pilaf in the Instant Pot

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Serves: 7

Prep Time: 15 minutes – Cooking Time: 22 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 c long grain brown rice, rinsed
• 1 c tri-color quinoa, rinsed
• 2 T olive oil (did not measure, poured into IP)
• 1 onion, chopped
• 6 large cloves of garlic, chopped
• 1/2 c chopped celery (it was already chopped and in freezer, no idea how much celery was involved)
• 2 cups homemade chicken stock
• Tony Chachere's to taste - I just did a sprinkle over it before closing the IP
• 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed, optional

Instructions

1

Rinse the rice and quinoa in a mesh strainer (quinoa is hard to get out of my strainer) and drain

2

Using the Sauté function, sauté the onion, garlic and celery in the olive oil in the IP 2-3 minutes

3

Add the drained rice + quinoa, sauté 3 more minutes

4

Add the stock and stir

5

Sprinkle Tony Chachere's across the top

6

IS THE RED RING IN THE LID? No I used the blue ring dagnabbit, so I hope the scents of this aren't embedded in my Yogurt blue ring!!

7

Close, lock, seal the lid

8

Manual: 22 minutes

9

After it's done, give it 5-10 minutes NPR

10

Add the beans

Nutrition

• 292 Calories
• 47.7g Carbohydrates
• 6.8g Fat
• 6.3g Fiber
• 10.5g Protein
• 1.1g Saturated fat
• 311mg Sodium
• .9g Sugar

Notes

Nutrition info is based on a 1-cup serving.

With a can of Black Beans, this filled 3 16-ounce containers and 1 12-ounce, so the yield is probably between 7 - 7 1/2 cups, so maybe 6+ cups without beans.