Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, instant pot lemon rice. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Instant Pot Lemon Rice—Greek-inspired lemon rice is perfect to serve as a side dish or with chicken. It's flavor is subtle, but delicious. I went to the most delicious Greek place the other day for dinner.

Instant Pot Lemon Rice is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Instant Pot Lemon Rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have instant pot lemon rice using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:

1. Take unsoaked Basmati rice
2. Make ready water
3. Make ready salt as per taste
4. Take bay leaf
5. Get lemon juice lemons
6. Prepare turmeric
7. Get stem curry leaves
8. Make ready green peas cooked
9. Make ready shallots
10. Make ready slit green chilly
11. Take mustard seeds
12. Take tsps ghee(clarified butter) / oil
13. Get peanuts roasted (optional)

Enjoy it as a side or make it you base to serve your favorite proteins. Stove top to and Rice Cooker recipe available. This tangy and spicy lemon rice is is a popular south Indian dish. It makes for a perfect side or or a light meal.

Steps to make Instant Pot Lemon Rice:

1. Keep the Instant Pot on saute mode and once hot,add some ghee or oil.
2. Pop the mustard seeds and add bay leaf, curry leaves,green chilies and shallots.
3. Add salt,turmeric powder,peanuts and saute well until shallots turn golden.
4. Pour the lemon juice into this and saute well.
5. Now add the washed and drained rice into the inner pot.
6. Mix well all the ingredients until well combined.
7. Add 2 cups water and check the salt. Now set the 'pressure cook' mode to 4 mins.
8. Once done,open the lid using Quick Release and transfer the rice to a colander to cool.(to prevent sticking of rice)
9. Serve hot  with pickle and salad of your choice.
10. Tip# For cooking perfect Basmati rice in Instant Pot,the rice to water ratio is: Unsoaked Basmati - 1:1.25 ratio & Soaked Basmati Rice 1:1 ratio

Lemon juice and zest make this rice both tart and bright! Adding a serrano pepper (or two if you're like my husband) gives it some heat and the dal and peanuts. I'm still pretty new to my Instant Pot, but I am already loving it more than I expected I would! One thing I am loving about my Instant Pot is the SAUTE feature. I can brown my meat, cook my onions, and soften my peppers in the same place I simmer my chili.

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