Easy Steamed Rice in Instant Pot (Pot in Pot Method)

Steamed Rice cooked in Instant Pot with Pot in Pot Method.

Rice forms an important part of every day meal of all Indians. Dal Chawal(Dal Rice the ultimate comfort food for all of us. A simple and delicious meal that gets ready with few minutes.

Rice is also used in making Pulao, biryani or khichdi and many other rice based dishes like Idlis and dosa. The most popular form of rice that is eaten almost daily by masses in India or I may say Indian throughout the world is Steamed Rice. It is best paired with various dals or vegetables with curry like Aloo Tamatar or Aloo Matar(Potato curry with tomatoes and peas).

Now make your favorite Steamed Rice in Instant Pot with Pot in Pot method.

Steamed Rice is prepared in open pan on stove-tops with two different methods. Please refer to my post.. Steamed Rice, on how to cook Steamed Rice in open pan on gas stove. The same post covers the Microwave Method of cooking steamed rice. With the introduction of Instant Pot, we can now cook conveniently in Instant Pot. With PIP method we can cook steamed rice with your favorite dal/curry.

What is PIP Method

Pot in Pot Method(shortened PIP) allows the food to cook in a separate bowl/container placed on the steam rack/ trivet. Steamed generated from the liquid below allows the food to cook and build pressure in the Instant Pot. The quantity of food that is cooked with PIP method in container is less than what you can cook in the inner pot. Will cover the details of PIP method in a seperate post shortly.

What I need(IP accessories) to cook Rice in Instant Pot with Pot in Pot Method..

A container/pan that if Instant Pot safe. I use these stackable steel containers(pls refer pic below) that fit in Instant Pot and are also perfect to cook rice/veggies for a family of four. You can use other Instant Pot friendly containers like Pyrex bowls. The container should preferably have a flat base/bottom, this ensures the rice is cooked uniformly in time. Round pans/bowls should be preferred over the square ones. Even your round cakes pans can be used for cooking.

A stand on which we place the rice pan/bowl. I prefer this stand instead of the trivet that we get with Instant pot, so that the bowl of rice doesn't get submerged in Dal/curry cooking in inner pot.The lower trivet comes handy for taller pans and the high trivet or team rack is useful for cooking one pot meal combos.

Even while cooking only one dish with PIP method, never place the container directly at the bottom.

A lid to cover the rice container, but this optional.

Cooking Rice in Instant Pot with PIP method has it's own advantages

• First it saves time. Two dishes can be prepared at a time.
• It is mess-free. No spilling of water on the gas stoves.
• No babysitting to look at the cooking time. Do the basic preparations, add food containers, set the time and finish the other chores, go out for walk or shopping and come back home to a well cooked warm meal.

How to get perfect steamed rice in Instant Pot with Pot In Pot Method

To get the perfect steamed rice with separate grains (khila khila chawal that we call it in Hindi), it is very necessary to soak rice at least 15-20 minutes before cooking.

Add right amount of water in rice. With less water rice grains are cooked and with more water rice becomes very mushy.

You can add few drops of oil, so that the rice grains don't stick together.

I use Basmati Rice, (Royal Basmati Rice) that we pick from Costco store(in US), it takes 5 minutes to cook Rice on Pressure Cook Mode (minus the time IP takes to come to pressure).

Pair Rice with Dal/Lentil or curry that has almost the same cooking time as Rice.

Dal Tadka(made with Toor Dal/Pigeon Pea Lentils), Dhuli Masoor(Red Lentils),Moong Dal(varities) are a few lentils which can be cooked with PiP method.

--Rice with Toor/Arhar Dal

--Rice with Dhuli Masoor(Red Lentils),

--Rice with Dhuli Urad (Split Black Lentils skinned)

--Rice with Dal Palak(Moong lentils and Spinach)

--Rice with Aloo Matar

-Rice with Sambhar and many more..

Let's see how I cook Steamed Rice in Instant Pot with PIP method..

So, do try this way of making steamed rice with PIP method, if you haven't tried yet. It will surely shorten the cooking time, and you can spend more time with kids or on other chores, without worrying about the spilled liquid or over cooked food and the great thing is that a full wholesome meal is ready in a short time.

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This is 5th in my series of A-Z Biryani/Pulao/Khichdi dishes, that I am taking to Mega Blogging Marathon.

Day 5. E.. Easy Steamed Rice in Instant Pot with Pot in Pot Method

This is an event where I along with a group of fellow bloggers are blogging everyday about Biryani/Pulao/Khichdi dishes this whole April, with Sundays off.

My earlier posts for the event..

Day 1. A.. Aloo Matar Ki Tehri

Day 2. B..Broccoli Mushroom Pulao

Day 3 . C..Chana Dal Khichdi

Day 4.. D for Dhaniya Pulao

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