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

This recipe turned out terribly. The rice seemed to be simultaneously overcooked and undercooked. Entire mixture was mushy, but rice was hard in the middle.

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. WTF.

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.