Easy Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice Southern Style

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice is an easy, delicious one pot meal. It’s a perfect dish for the busy mom and family or for any time you want a satisfying, comfort food meal. It’s easy to adjust the recipe for more servings.

Being from the South, red beans and rice is a staple food. Making Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice to make it gives me more freedom from the kitchen.

For meat we don’t produce ourselves. We try to source pasture raised, organic meat locally. This is difficult in our area.

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The farming practices and way of doing business of Seven Sons is one we support and identify with. It’s not very often we recommend something to you but we certainly do recommend them without hesitation or reserve.

This is my basic recipe. You can change it to suit your family’s taste and budget. It easily adjusts to make more.

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice Recipe

Ingredients

• ½ lb ground pork sausage
• 10 oz pork link, summer (I use this from Seven Sons), or polish sausage – whichever type you prefer chopped into bite size pieces
• 1 large onion chopped
• ½ bell pepper chopped
• ½ c sweet bonnet or pepper of your choice, jalapeño, cayenne, any pepper chopped
• 2 large cloves garlic crushed
• 2 tsp real salt
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• ½ tsp cilantro
• ½ tsp cayenne pepper
• ¼ tsp sage
• 3-4 cups dried red beans cooked or canned. I like to use a tricolor of pintos red and black beans
• ¾ cup uncooked rice I use organic basmati rice
• ½ – 4 cups liquid water. I like to use the liquid from cooking beans since I cook them with bacon. You could use chicken or vegetable stock. The amount you use depends on how much juice you want in your finished product. We don’t like it very juicy so I use 3 cups of liquid.
• 2 Tbs bacon grease or oil of choice

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Instructions

1. Use the saute setting on High of your Instant Pot to brown the ground sausage.
2. While it’s cooking, chop it up using a spoon or spatula.
3. When it’s almost done, add the link sausage you choose to it and cook until both are brown.
4. Add the 2 Tbs bacon grease to the pot then add the peppers and onions.
5. Cook until the onions become translucent then add the garlic. Keep it stirred until garlic is heated. Don’t brown the garlic just let it get hot so that it releases it’s flavor.
6. Add the beans, and liquid to the Instant Pot and stir well.
7. Add the uncooked rice to the pot and stir well.
8. Now, add all the seasonings and mix well.
9. Turn off the Instant Pot and secure the lid on it. Be sure the vent is set to “Sealing”
10. You have a couple of options now. You can set the Instant Pot to Manual for 40 minutes, this is what I do because it takes my rice 20 minutes to cook.
11. You could use the Rice setting on your Instant Pot, IF you use a rice that cooks in 10 minutes.
12. When it has finished cooking, allow 15 minutes for natural pressure release. If you do a quick release of the pressure, I find the rice gets kind of gummy.
13. Remove the lid and serve. Remember there will still be steam so use caution when opening the lid.

Notes:

• I find if I let it the Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice sit without removing the lid for a couple of hours, the flavors have more time to combine and it tastes even better.
• I serve it with garlic bread or toast, a salad, or just by itself.

There you have it, Instant Pot Southern Red Beans and Rice. Easy, delicious, and it goes a long way.

Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice is only one of the ways we make quick delicious meals using this amazing tool!.

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