Instant Pot Jasmine Rice is fluffy, perfect, and so easy to make. You don’t need a rice cooker to have the most delicious, perfectly cooked rice for your next stir fry dinner!
As promised when I shared the sweet chili chicken stir fry recipe, here’s the recipe for Instant Pot jasmine rice! Jasmine rice is one of my absolute favorite things. It has the best flavor and it’s perfect with any type of stir fry recipe. Did you know that leftover rice is perfect (essential!) for making yummy Fried Rice? And dont
Jasmine rice is the perfect accompaniment to this honey balsamic chicken with crispy vegetables, an oven roasted sheet pan dinner. I always serve jasmine rice to soak up the delicious creamy wine sauce in this chicken recipe.
Or I love jasmine rice completely by itself. With butter.
There aren’t many things better than buttered rice, am I right? Well, maybe creamy risotto.
It’s so easy to make jasmine rice in your pressure cooker. As you all probably already know, I have an Instant Pot, but this will work in any type of electric pressure cooker.
I make three cups of rice (meaning I use three cups of dry rice), but you could also use this method to prepare as little as 1 cup of dry rice. I always like to make a lot of rice while I’m at it. You can store the cooked rice in the fridge or freezer to use for other meals.
The ratio is one to one (1:1), so it’s very easy to remember! I usually use water for the liquid, but you could also use broth. I love the flavor of the jasmine rice so I like it to shine through on its own.
I add a little oil to help prevent the rice from sticking together. I like coconut oil because it complements the flavor of the rice so well, but you could use any type of oil you like, or butter. And don’t forget salt to bring out the flavors of the rice, especially if you’re cooking in water.
One important step to remember when cooking rice in a pressure cooker is to rinse your rice first. Rinsing will keep the rice from foaming up too much and sputtering out the valve, making a huge mess (any Instant Pot owners know what I’m talking about here?).
You’re going to want to make an ultra large batch of this jasmine rice, because it is absolutely irresistible!
FAQs of making Instant Pot Jasmine Rice:
- What is the cook time or how long do you cook jasmine rice in the pressure cooker? Jasmine rice cooks in a pressure cooker in 5 minutes on high with a 10 minute natural release.
- What is the rice to water ratio for cooking rice in the Instant Pot? You want to use a 1:1 ratio of rice to water, so for every 1 cup of rice, you’ll use 1 cup of water (or broth).
- What setting do I use? I almost always just do a manual setting, but I’m sure your rice setting will work too – just set the time for the amount of time directed in the recipe.
Did you know you can also make quinoa in the Instant Pot? Along with a million other things…make sure to read my complete guide to cooking with an Instant Pot; you’ll find all my Instant Pot recipes there too.
More Rice
You can also make Instant Pot Brown Rice – just remember brown rice takes longer to cook than jasmine rice, even in a pressure cooker. Or try Instant Pot White Rice for long grain white rice.
Instant Pot Jasmine Rice
Ingredients
- 3 cups jasmine rice (see note)
- 3 cups water
- 1 tablespoon oil (coconut oil, olive oil, butter)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Put rice in a fine mesh strainer and rinse well until water runs clear.
- Add rice to the insert of a 6 quart Instant Pot. Add water, oil, and salt. pushing down any rice that may be on the side of the pot to submerge in liquid.
- Secure cover, turn valve to seal, and set Instant Pot to Pressure Cook for 5 minutes (or on Manual, high pressure). When the timer goes off, let the pressure naturally release for 10 minutes (in other words, leave it alone for 10 minutes).
- When 10 minutes has elapsed, quick release any remaining pressure. Remove lid, fluff the rice with a fork, and serve.
Notes
- Makes about 9 cups cooked rice.
- You can adjust the quantity easily as long as you keep the ratio of 1 cup rice: 1 cup water. Cook time remains the same: pressure cook for 5 minutes, with 10 minutes natural release. The time it takes the Instant Pot to come to full pressure will change.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Thank you so much for sharing this simple yet delicious recipe! I used salted sweet cream butter with my rice and it came out perfect and fluffy, no burnt bottom layer! Will 100% be following this method from now on. Just as good as our favorite Chinese takeout fluffy white rice.
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If you refrigerate cook rice, before using, it turns into a resistance starch. Cool for at least 1 hour. Google “resistant starch”
thought i would give my instant pot another chance with jasmine rice, same result,sticky rice clumped together using tilda rice rinsed under running water for at least ten minutes, allowed to drain then placed in instant pot duo 60 along with two cups of cold waterone tablespoon coconut oiland one teaspoon malden sea saltcooked on high pressure for five minutes , came up to pressure in a little over five minutes followed by a natural pressure release for exactly 10minutes, rice is tasty for sure but once again very sticky instant pot is duo60 with new lid sealing ring everything cleaned thoroughly before use, should the rice be sticky without separate grains?hope you can advise
Hmm – I’m not sure, sorry. It’s hard for me to troubleshoot beyond what I’ve already suggested, since I’m not in your kitchen seeing what you’re doing.
Perfect every time. Thank you!
So happy to hear it! Thank you for the review!
Works great, thanks!
You’re so welcome!
i have an instant pot duo60 and i have yet to makeanything like the rice that i enjoy, i have so far following methods ihave found on this site including this one i have to date wasted three bags each of basmati and jasmine rice ,i like my rice to have separate grains and not be clumped together on the inner pot base
Hi Kenneth – I’m having a bit of a hard time following your comment. Are you saying your rice didn’t turn out using this method?
hi rachel , yes the rice turned out but only with the help of my son using a wooden spatula to scrape from the inner pot bottom,i followed your recipe religiously even bought freshsealing rubber rings from amazon, the only time i have made a perfect pot of rice was by using madhur jeffreys sweet aromatic yellow rice recipe on the stove top. can only assume that the instant pot is absolutely hopeless for cooking rice that turns out light andfluffy with separate grains i guess if you’ll be happy with claggy stodgy rice that come out of the pot in sticky coagulated lumps then of course ,use this useless item of kitchen cookware.what is that i hear you all saying about tools and bad workmen!?
Followed recipe to a T, check the link each time to make sure it’s right. Perfect each time. Thank you!!! Love it!
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yet another waste of rice ijust cooked three cups of jasmine rice in three cups of water withadded coconut oil and sea salt and now i have a third of a pot of claggy inedible rice, i washed the rice in running wateruntil the water ran clear i must give up on pressure cooking rice and return to the madhur jaffrey method on the stove top
It sounds like it could be an issue with your instant pot. Did you check the seal and make sure the valve was closed? Did you remember the natural release?
Reads like user error to me
I just made this in my 8 quart. Turned out perfect! I did spray the liner with grapeseed oil and used coconut oil as the fat. Made sure to rinse the rice really well. Will do this method in the future!
So glad it worked out well for you! Thank you for leaving a review!
I followed the recipe as written (except made two cups of rice rather than three so a little less salt), using a little avocado spray on the inside of the pot and 1tbsp of avocado oil with the rice. It turned out PERFECTLY! thank you!
So glad it worked well for you! Thank you for leaving a review!