Nom Nom Casserole

Nom Nom Casserole–a hearty and savory dish made in the Instant Pot featuring the flavors of Italian sausage, creamy cannellini beans, tomatoes, rice, aromatic spices, lemon and parmesan.

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Nom Nom Casserole

Let’s create a meal tonight that will have everyone saying, “Nom nom!” This is sort of a tuscan rice dish. With flavorful Italian sausage, cannellini beans and parmesan cheese you can’t go wrong. I had a container with leftovers in the fridge when I went to bed and when I woke up in the morning it was gone. This is what I face a lot lately. Teenage boys, am I right? 🤷‍♀️

Ingredients/Substitution Ideas

• Italian sausage
• Onion
• Garlic
• Chicken broth–or water and Better than Bouillon*
• Converted rice–or long grain white rice, basmati, jasmine
• Cannellini beans–or great northern
• Petite diced tomatoes–or fire roasted tomatoes
• Black pepper
• Dried thyme leaves
• Kosher salt
• Spinach–fresh or frozen. You can also use kale.
• Lemon juice–fresh is best
• Parmesan cheese

Steps

Turn Instant Pot* to saute setting. When display says HOT add in the Italian sausage and break it up*. Add in the onion. Brown for about 5 minutes. Drain off excess grease. Add in the garlic and saute for 30 seconds. 

Pour in the broth and scrape bottom of pot so that nothing is sticking. Turn off Instant Pot.

Sprinkle in the rice evenly.

Dump in the beans, tomatoes, pepper, thyme, salt.

Add spinach. Don’t stir. 

Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 3 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.

Stir in the lemon juice and parmesan cheese. 

Serve and enjoy!

Notes/Tips

• Serve with roasted vegetables or a salad.
• If you don’t like spice then use mild Italian sausage instead of hot.
• This recipe is gluten free.
• I used my 6 quart Instant Pot*. You can also make this in a 3 or 8 quart pot.
• Store leftovers in an airtight container* in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
• Other recipes you can make with spinach are Instant Pot Creamy Tortellini, Spinach And Chicken Soup and Instant Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken.
• What is converted/parboiled rice? Don’t confuse converted rice (or sometimes it is called parboiled rice) with pre-cooked or minute rice. Parboiled rice has been processed in its husk by soaking, steaming, and drying. As a result, all the nutrients from the husk are absorbed into the grain before it’s removed. The starch content alters in the process, making cooked parboiled rice less sticky than regular white rice. The rice kernels aren’t clumpy and glued together instead they are more separated. I found a bag of parboiled rice at Walmart next to the normal long grain white rice. Sometimes I buy it at Winco in the bulk section. I have also found it in the orange box (Ben’s brand) next to other rices.
• Why do you say not to stir? Burn problems happen when you start adding things that thicken and stir them into your liquid (examples would be tomato sauce or other tomato products, cream soups, thick sauces, etc). When you do that, now that liquid is too thick to boil without burning on the bottom of the pot. Once that happens, the pot will never come to pressure until you scrape off anything burned on the bottom and add more liquid to thin it out.

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