This Instant Pot Dirty Rice is Southern comfort food at its finest; filled with sausage, ground beef, bell pepper, onion, and celery. It's slightly spicy from the Creole seasoning is super simple to make, and notably leaves out the chicken livers for a more universal appeal. On the table in about 30 minutes!
Dirty rice is a classic Southern dish typically made with a combination of small pieces of pork, chicken, and beef. When I mentioned wanting to use diced chicken livers to my wife, she said something like, "That's fine, but I will need to eat something else for dinner." It hurt my heart a little, but I decided that if she didn't want to eat them, you might not either. So this Instant Pot dirty rice version is a little less "authentic" than I would like. But, for that reason, it is much more palatable—even for our 3-year-old daughter, who doesn't like rice, but devoured a big bowl of this!
Why This Recipe Works
- Cooking rice in the Instant Pot takes out the guesswork. You can set it and forget it and have perfect rice every time.
- Cooking with beef and sausage rather than livers makes the dish palatable to picky eaters while delivering great flavor.
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Ingredients You Will Need to Prep
How To Make Instant Pot Dirty Rice
Expert Tips
- Depending on the type of sausage you use, there may or may not be oil to drain. You can drain or leave as much as you prefer. A little fat is good for flavor, but you will want to drain most of it if there's a lot.
- Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. I do not recommend freezing leftovers, as the rice will turn to mush when reheated.
FAQs
What kind of sausage did you use? You can use whatever sausage you like, but I used Jimmy Dean Hot.
How much liver would you have used, and would it be in place of the beef or sausage or in addition to them? I have not tested this recipe with liver, so I can't say for sure. However, I would try adding ½ cup of diced livers and subtracting about the same amount of either beef or pork.
Can I freeze this? I wouldn't recommend it. The rice will turn to mush upon freezing and reheating.
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📖 Recipe
Instant Pot Dirty Rice (Without Livers)
Ingredients
- 1 lb. lean ground beef
- 1 lb. ground sausage
- 1 cup yellow onions diced
- ¾ cup green bell peppers diced
- ½ cup celery diced
- 1 Tbsp. creole seasoning
- 2 cups long grain white rice
- 2.5 cups chicken stock
- 1 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar
- 4 thyme sprigs
- 2 bay leaves
- ¼ cup green onions thinly sliced
- 2 Tbsp. parsley finely chopped
Instructions
- Turn the sauté setting to high on your Instant Pot. Add ground beef and sausage to pot along with onions, peppers, celery, and creole seasoning. As the meat begins to brown, break it up as much as possible and cook until meat is browned thoroughly.
- Add rice to pot, along with chicken stock and apple cider vinegar, and mix well. Place thyme and bay leaves on top (so that you can easily remove them later). Lock lid and cook for 12 minutes at low pressure.
- Once the cook time is complete, allow the pressure to release naturally (which will take about 10 minutes). Then remove thyme sprigs and bay leaves.
- Finally, add green onions and parsley, then mix really well one last time before serving.
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Notes
Expert Tips
- Depending on the type of sausage you use, there may or may not be oil to drain. You can drain or leave as much as you prefer. A little fat is good for flavor, but you will want to drain most of it if there's a lot.
- Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. I do not recommend freezing leftovers, as the rice will turn to mush when reheated.
FAQs
Do I need to drain the oil from the sausage? Depending on the type of sausage you use, there may or may not be oil there to drain. You can drain or leave as much as you prefer. A little fat is good for flavor, but if there’s a lot, you will want to drain most of it. What kind of sausage did you use? You can use whatever sausage you like, but I used Jimmy Dean hot. How much liver would you have used and would it be in place of the beef or sausage or in addition to them? I have not tested this recipe with liver, so I can’t say for sure. However, I would try adding ½ cup diced livers and subtract about the same amount of either beef or pork. How do I store leftovers? Can I freeze this? Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. I do not recommend freezing leftovers, as the rice will turn to mush when reheating.Nutrition
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Scott S
I make this every year since I have had my instant pot for work's Thanksgiving pot-luck and for family pot-lucks. It is very consistent and works really well. Never had a bad thing said about it. Thank you for the recipe.
Jeff
Question - I saw where someone asked if you could use brown rice, & you suggested extra time. I can certainly do that, but would you need additional chicken stock? Also, if I use the white rice should I rinse it first?
Stephanie M.
Amazingly good! Packed with flavor! Super easy! Crowd pleaser! No leftovers!
The only change I made was using Seasoning Blend instead of fresh veggies for the Trinity. I do that in several Cajun recipes on my rotation, it’s just too easy. Hopefully, I’m not sacrificing too much of the flavor of the original recipe. But, as delicious as it was for us, it would be even more so if following the recipe as written if that’s the case.
So glad to have found and tried this dinner. I will definitely make it again!
Thank you for sharing!
P.S. I used Blue & Gold Sausage and Farm Raised Beef. Served with a side salad. So good!
SC
This is a great dish. Family loved it.
Can be used as a side dish. Or stuffed Bell peppers. Or as your main dish. Try it. You won't be disappointed!
Barbara Leonard
Followed the directions added a little extra chicken broth this time. Last time the rice was a little crunchy but still delicious!
Sarah
Love this recipe. Just had a question about the pressure cook setting. So there are two different places to set it the pressure. One is under the screen which sets it to either low or high pressure. Then there is a pressure cook button that you can press for either low, normal, or high. Do I set both on low/less??