Grammy's Kitchen · Spanish Rice · Perfect Instant Pot Mexican Rice
One of 60 spanish rice recipes we measured
35 cooks on kristineskitchenblog.com rate it 4.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 60.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 160% | 195% |
| fat | 6% | 14% |
| vegetables and beans | 61% | 70% |
| aromatics | 34% | 23% |
| salt | 2% | 2% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 370 g | 2 cups long grain white rice* |
| 20 g | 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil |
| 120 g | 3/4 cup chopped white or yellow onion |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 592 g | 2 1/2 cups water (or low sodium chicken broth or vegetable broth) |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste) |
| 4 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder |
| 2 g | 1 teaspoon ground cumin |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano |
| 227 g | 8 ounces tomato sauce |
| chopped fresh cilantro (optional, for serving) |
Method: 8 steps, published by kristineskitchenblog.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Sadly this recipe didn’t work for me. I’ve never gotten a burn message the over 10 years I’ve had my instant pot, but I kept getting one with this recipe. Perhaps it is because I doubled it even though my cooker is plenty big. I ended up dumping it all into a ” — a cook, 3.0★
“This tastes amazing. Lindsey, Nov 8, 2022, asked about triple recipe. I did that in my 8 qrt. Tastes amazing. Thank you. However, it was still slightly crunchy. You had mentioned to triple recipe, but keep the 4 minutes. What should I do to eliminate ” — a cook, 5.0★