Recipes/Pressure Cooker Beef Rice Bean Casserole

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb ground beef
• 1 cup diced onions
• 1 cup diced tomatoes
• 1 cup diced bell peppers
• 1 can kidney beans (drained)
• 3 tablespoons taco seasoning
• 1.5 teaspoons salt (optional)
• 1 cup uncooked basmati rice
• 1.25 cups water

NOTE: If recipe is doubled, only use 1.75 cups water

Directions

• Sautee ground beef and onions in crock pot, cook for 3-5 min.
• Add 1/4 cup water to pot, deglaze bottom of pot thoroughly
• Add taco seasoning and salt and rice. Mix thoroughly.
• Add 1 cup water. Scatter tomatoes, peppers, beans on top of rice and meat mixture. Do not mix.
• Secure lid on pressure cooker
• Cook on HIGH for 4 minutes
• Release pressure naturally for 10 minutes
• (Optional: add a fried egg on top)

Notes

First attempt of this recipe turned out terribly. Entire mixture was mushy, some rice was overcooked.

The first time I cooked it for 4 minutes, instapot was trying to cook it for 4 hours, had to stop it after 6 minutes. There was not even steam coming off of the food. The second time, I cooked it for 4 minutes, and the food still looked undercooked from the top. It was brown and burned on the bottom of the pot.