Instant Pot Uncle Willie’s Casserole

Instant Pot Uncle Willie’s Casserole–an easy ground beef, long grain and wild rice and vegetable recipe that comes together very quickly with the help of your pressure cooker.

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Instant Pot Uncle Willie’s Casserole

This is a simple dinner of rice and ground beef with onions, mushrooms, celery and carrots. It was easy to make and yummy to eat. My son especially loved it!

This recipe gets a head start by using a box of Ben’s long grain and wild rice with seasoning packet. There is just a little bit of peeling and chopping but overall it’s a fairly easy recipe. It only needs a 5 minute pressure cooking time too so it’s fast to get dinner on the table.

The original recipe comes from the author’s Uncle Willie. She stated, “I’m used to the rustic form of Cajun food with origins along the bayous of Louisiana. That’s where meals are based on available ingredients and preparation is simple. Whatever happens to be available goes into a pot, gets seasoned well, and served with rice oftentimes. Nothing fancy, and never wasteful.” If you like this way of cooking you can use what you have in your cupboard/fridge for this recipe and use it up! Some ideas are cabbage, olives, water chestnuts, green beans, peppers, green onions, zucchini, etc.

Ingredients/Substitution Ideas

• Lean ground beef–or ground turkey
• Onion–or 2 Tbsp a minced dried onion
• Ben’s original Long Grain and Wild Rice–or you can do the Rice-A-Roni brand
• Chicken or beef broth–or you can use Better than Bouillon and water
• Celery
• Carrot
• Mushrooms
• Kosher salt
• Black pepper
• Garlic powder

Steps

1. Brown the ground beef: Turn Instant Pot to sauté setting. When display says HOT add in the ground beef and break it up. Add in the onions. Brown for about 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease. 
2. Deglaze the pot: Stir in half of the seasoning packet that is in the rice box. Pour in the broth and scrape the bottom of the pot so that nothing is sticking. 
3. Layer ingredients: Sprinkle in the rice. Dump the celery, carrots, mushrooms, salt, pepper, garlic powder and remaining seasoning packet on top of the rice. Don’t stir. 
4. Pressure cook: 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 pot sit for 5-10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
5. Serve: Stir. Serve and enjoy.

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Notes/Tips

• How I drain grease: Tilt the Instant Pot to one side while holding the ground meat against the other side with a wooden spoon. This should make most of the grease pool on the tilted side. Lower the Instant Pot down, the meat should stay to its side and the grease on the other. Place a couple paper towels into the grease and use the spoon to sop up the grease. Discard the paper towels.
• Serve with a side of vegetables like roasted broccoli or green beans.
• You may like this drizzled with some hot sauce.
• I used my 6 quart Instant Pot*. You can also make this in a 3 or 8 quart pot with no changes.
• Store leftovers in an airtight container* in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
• Another recipe you can make with Ben’s Long Grain and Wild Rice is Instant Pot Panera Bread Chicken Wild Rice Soup.

More Beef and Rice Recipes…

• Instant Pot Taco Tuesday Casserole
• Instant Pot Popeye’s Cajun Rice
• A Cowboy’s Jambalaya (Instant Pot)
• Instant Pot Amish Shipwreck Casserole
• Instant Pot Crispy Cowboy Casserole
• Instant Pot Hamburger Jazz

Did you know you can filter the recipes on my website to search by meat type, IP or Crockpot, low carb, gluten free, etc.? Use the filter to find exactly what you are looking for.

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