Pressure Cooker Brown Rice is an easy and quick way to serve up tender and delicious foolproof brown rice in minutes! It's hard to tell the difference between brown rice and white rice when you cook brown rice this way! A total game-changer!

Best & Easiest Pressure Cooker Brown Rice:

This Brown Rice recipe uses an Instant Pot or any other pressure cooker you may have in just mere minutes to create foolproof, perfect-every time brown rice.

The simple white rice comes out hot, fluffy, a lot like white rice in texture and consistency as long as you follow the steps in this recipe! It's just perfect!

No more burnt, mushy, or hard clumpy rice!

Making rice in the pressure cooker is super easy! There's absolutely no stirring or watching the pot needed - throw those old stove-top rules out the window.

What to pair with brown rice:

Fluffy brown rice goes well with pretty much everything. Dishes like One-Pan Baked Gluten-Free Sweet and Sour Chicken and One-Pan Baked Gluten-Free Sticky Honey Garlic Chicken are always served with pressure cooker brown rice.

Popular recipes like Blackened Chicken and Champagne Mushroom Chicken Skillet are great choices because the brown rice tends to soak up many of the awesome flavors radiating from these main dishes!

Recipes that smother the brown rice in their delicious savory sauces are another hot pick. Try Slow Cooker Gluten-Free Chicken Marsala, One-Pot Garlic Mushroom Chicken Skillet, and the Instant Pot Pork Chops with Gravy!

Pressure Cooker Brown Rice Ingredients:

• Brown rice, rinsed (by running the rice under the kitchen faucet until the water runs clear and it not cloudy!)
• water
• cooking spray

How to make Instant Pot Brown Rice:

1. Rinse your brown rice in the sink under cool water with a strainer. Cover the bottom of your Instant Pot with cooking spray or use a olive oil mister.
2. Place the rinsed rice in the bottom of the pressure cooker, then add then water, then stir and place the lid on the Instant Pot, making sure the pressure cooker is sealed and not set to "vent".
3. Turn on the pressure cooker and set it to "rice" setting with 4 minutes of cook time. Once the timer is up, allow the Instant Pot to naturally release for 10 minutes.
4. After the 10 minutes of natural release, manually release any of pressure still left in the cooker. Remove the lid, fluff the rice with a spoon, and serve!

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What tools to use for brown rice?

You will need a pressure cooker and some brown rice!

This dish uses an Instant Pot but you can always use a different brand of pressure cooker to create the same masterpiece of rice perfection.

I highly recommend two pressure cookers that I use in my own kitchen.

The first is the 6 Quart Instant Pot.

The other pressure cooker is my beloved Pampered Chef Quick Cooker.

No matter which pressure cooker is on your kitchen counter, follow these foolproof steps to perfectly cooked brown rice!

Instant Pot Brown Rice Tips:

• Use that 1: 2.25 ratio. That's right! Use a 1 cup brown rice, to 2.25 cups water ratio for this recipe to keep it at that perfect consistency! Brown rice needs a lot more water than white rice to get a tender consistency that you expect out of fluffy brown rice!
• Cook the rice as soon as you rinse the water over the rice. If you let the rice sit in water, the rice will absorb the water which will throw off the rice:water ratio.
• Use a fine strainer to rinse the rice with. I have a fine strainer that I bought at the Dollar Store when I was in college 13 years ago and it still does the trick! The reason why we rinse the rice is to wash away any residual starch left on those processed pieces of grain. Just do it! Your rice will turn out perfect if you rinse!
• Measure the rice in a dry measuring cup, place it in the fine strainer, and rinse it well, spending at least 30 seconds rinsing the rice. 

Doubling or halving pressure cooked brown rice recipe:

If you want to cook more rice, double or even triple the brown rice amount using the 1:2.25 rice to water ratio, use the same cooking time and settings, just remember to use the same amount of rice as you are using of water!

Pressure Cooker Brown Rice Toppings:

Sprinkle your Pressure Cooker Brown Rice with your favorite herbs. Our go-to herb is always a healthy dose of green onion! The bright green color looks gorgeous sprinkled on top of the contrasting brown rice and the flavor compliments the calm rice perfectly.

Other fresh herbs to try are basil, thyme, cilantro, or parsley.

Another idea is to sprinkle your brown rice with delicious seasonings such as sesame seeds, roasted garlic, crushed red pepper flakes, or your favorite seasoning blend.

How to store leftover brown rice:

Store leftover brown rice in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days.

Reheating is easy! just place the stored leftover rice in the microwave for 30-90 seconds depending on the amount that you are reheating at one time.

Store uncooked white rice in a sealed container in a dry and dark place.

How to reheat leftover cooked brown rice:

You can easily and quickly reheat your cooked brown rice in your microwave.

All that you need to do is make sure that the container that you are warming your rice up in is microwave safe.

Then program your microwave the cook on high for 30-90 seconds, depending on how much rice you are reheating and how hot you want your rice to come out.

After reheating, give your reheated rice a good stir and then enjoy! Easy peasy.

Want more easy rice recipes?

Well here ya go!

• Instant Pot Jasmine Rice
• Instant Pot Quinoa
• Parmesan Quinoa
• Garlic Cilantro Lime Rice