Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice Recipe

If you love Chipotle’s cilantro lime rice, then you are going to fall in love with this Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice recipe. It has simple ingredients including fresh lime juice and chopped cilantro to give the rice fresh flavors. 

This is a great easy recipe to make for an easy side dish when you are making chicken or want to turn it into a chicken and rice bowl as you would get at a restaurant. You can’t go wrong with restaurant style cilantro lime rice to add flavor to any Mexican dish. 

Plus, for this recipe, you don’t need to use any chicken broth for flavor. With our popular copycat recipe, you will get great flavorful rice without all the extra and added ingredients. 

More easy Instant Pot side dish recipes:

• Instant Pot Easy Mac and Cheese Recipe
• How to Make our Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes Recipe
• Instant Pot Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe

Ingredients used to make Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice:

• White basmati rice 
• Water 
• Salt 
• Fresh lime juice (a bottle of lime juice will work too)
• Olive oil
• Chopped fresh cilantro leaves 

How to make Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice:

1. Fill the pressure cooker. For cooking rice in an electric pressure cooker, add the rice, water, salt, and freshly squeezed lime juice to the bowl of a pressure cooker. Give everything a stir. 
2. Cook. Seal the pressure cooker and set to cook on high pressure for 3 minutes. 
3. Release pressure. When the pressure cooker is done cooking, allow the pressure to naturally release for 12 minutes before manually releasing the remaining pressure. 
4. Finish it off. Fluff the rice with a fork and stir in the olive oil and fresh cilantro. Feel free to add extra lime juice to taste. 

Type of rice to use for this fluffy rice with lime flavor:

When you are ready to make this easy cilantro lime rice recipe, but you aren’t sure what kinds of rice you can use for this cilantro rice, take a look at the list below. 

1. Long grain rice
2. Jasmine rice
3. Brown rice (tends to take a bit longer to cook though)
4. Plain white rice

How to make a homemade burrito bowl with this copycat Chipotle cilantro lime rice recipe:

You can easily turn this recipe into homemade burrito bowls by grabbing a few extra ingredients like these:

• Black beans or pinto beans
• Cooked chicken, beef, or steak
• Cheese
• Cilantro or lime zest
• Pico de Gallo
• Queso 
• Guacamole

What to serve with easy Instant Pot cilantro lime rice:

• Man Catching Chicken Recipe
• The Best Instant Pot Shredded Chicken Recipe (Freezer Meal)
• Instant Pot Honey Sesame Chicken Recipe
• Fully Loaded Guacamole Recipe
• Slow Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken Recipe
• Instant Pot Mongolian Beef Recipe (Freezer Meal)

Other delicious recipes for the Instant Pot:

• Instant Pot Cheesy Chicken and Pasta Recipe
• Instant Pot Mama’s Pot Roast Recipe
• Instant Pot Creamy Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
• Instant Pot Cheesy Chicken and Rice Recipe
• Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe (Dump and Go)

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