Description
Ground beef, green pepper and rice with Cajun seasonings. An easy copycat recipe that you can make at home in your Instant Pot.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 Tbsp minced dried onion or 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp celery seed
- 1 tsp cajun seasoning
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 2 1/4 cups water
- 1 Tbsp Better than Bouillon Beef or Chicken Base
- 1 1/2 cups converted rice or long grain white rice
- 1 green bell pepper, cored and diced
- 1 1/2 cups chopped, cooked rotisserie chicken (optional)
- Kosher salt, to taste
Instructions
- Turn Instant Pot to sauté setting. When display says HOT add in the beef and break it up*. Add in the onion. Brown the beef for about 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease.
- Stir in the garlic powder, celery seed, cajun seasoning, cayenne pepper and black pepper to coat the beef.
- Pour in the water and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Stir in the Better than Bouillon.
- Sprinkle in the rice and the bell pepper. Don’t stir.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes. When time is up let the pot sit for 5-10 minutes and then move valve to venting and remove the lid.
- Stir in the chicken, if using. Test taste the rice and add in salt to taste.
- Category: Beef
- Method: Instant Pot