This is an easy recipe to make for a quick 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.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our Instant Pot cilantro lime rice, you need the following ingredients:
- White basmati rice
- Water
- Salt
- Fresh lime juice (a bottle of lime juice will work too)
- Olive oil
- Chopped fresh cilantro leaves
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Our Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice
- 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.
- Cook. Seal the pressure cooker and set to cook on high pressure for 3 minutes.
- Release pressure. When the pressure cooker is done cooking, allow the pressure to naturally release for 12 minutes before manually releasing the remaining pressure.
- 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.
Recipe Notes
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, you can use the following types: long grain rice, jasmine rice, brown rice (tends to take longer to cook) or plain white rice.
You can use this rice in a burrito bowl by grabbing a few extra ingredients, such as the following: black or pinto beans, cooked chicken, beef, or steak, cheese, cilantro, lime zest, pico de gallo, queso, or guacamole.
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Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups basmati rice
- 1 ½ cups water
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 Tablespoons lime juice
- ½ Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
Equipment
Instructions
- Fill the pressure cooker. Add the rice, water, salt, and lime juice to the bowl of a pressure cooker. Give everything a stir.
- Seal the pressure cooker and set to cook on high pressure for 3 minutes.
- When the pressure cooker is done cooking, allow the pressure to naturally release for 12 minutes before manually releasing the remaining pressure.
- Fluff the rice with a fork and stir in the olive oil and fresh cilantro. Feel free to add extra lime juice to taste.
Notes
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We’ve it exactly as written and also with white rice in rice cooker. Teenager approved!