No sticking or burning when you make this recipe for Crock-Pot Express White Rice. Cooking rice in your pressure cooker takes just a few minutes and you end up with fluffy white rice!
Pressure Cooker White Rice
I don’t know about you but cooking rice in a pot on the stove-top can be an….adventure. To say the least.
I have tried over and over again to get perfectly cooked, fluffy white rice, but alas I either undercook it and end up with crunchy rice or I overcook it and end up with rice burnt and stuck to my pan.
So for the longest time I just used an electric rice cooker. However, when I got my Crock-Pot Express Multi-Cooker I ditched the rice cooker and just use my pressure cooker to cook rice.
I am all about one less appliance taking up space in my kitchen!
This recipe for white rice is so simple you almost don’t need a recipe. But because it is the most common thing I cook in my Crock-Pot Express I figured I would share a recipe and my tips for cooking fail-proof white rice!
Frequently Asked Questions
You can easily use this exact recipe to cook just about any variety of white rice. Cooking long grain white rice, short grain white rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice, and sushi or sticky white rice all work great with this recipe in your Crock-Pot Express.
The only kind of white rice that does not work with this recipe is pre-cooked quick/minute rice.
Rinsing the dry grains of rice in cool water helps rinse away any sort of debris that might be in your rice and, most importantly, it also rinses away any excess starch that coat the rice grains. Rinsing away this starch is how you end up with fluffy rice. Not rinsing the rice will result with gummy rice.
Even for sushi rice, you will want to still rinse the rice. And then soak the dried sushi rice for 30 minutes in cold water.
Using chicken broth, beef broth or even vegetable broth is a great way to add some additional flavor to your white rice. I like to use a good low-sodium and low-fat broth (either store-bought or homemade) which adds flavor without making my rice too salty. And then, if I want to add salt to my rice I do so before serving so I can control how much or how little I add.
Special Diets
Gluten Free | Low Cholesterol | Low Fat | Low Sodium | Low Sugar | Vegan | Vegetarian
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Crock-Pot Express White Rice Recipe
Equipment
- Fork to fluff your rice and separate the grains
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Long-Grain White Rice
- 2 ½ Cups Water
Instructions
- Place dry rice in a strainer in the sink and rinse rice under cool running water to rinse off extra starch from the rice. Allow the water to drain off.
- Place rinsed rice in the insert of your Crock-Pot Express.
- Add 2 1/2 cups of water and stir.
- Close lid, making sure vent is closed.
- Turn Crock-Pot Express on, press the “Rice/Risotto” button, and then press the “Start/Stop” button to start the cooking.
- Once the rice is done cooking, let the Crock-Pot Express natural release for 5 to 10 minutes, then quick release the vent to release the rest of the steam out.
- Remove lid, fluff the rice up with a fork and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
I followed the recipe but used 1 cup of rice and 1.5 cups water. The rice came out sticky, not fluffy even after rising the dry rice til it ran clear. Any suggestions?
What type of rice did you use Angela? And was the pressure valve on your Crock-Pot Express vented or open?
Used this recipe this morning to try and make sushi rice with Japanese short grain sushi rice in my Crockpot (first time of using the pot), followed the recipe implicitly and all I got was a huge solid mass about the size of a football that I could not separate and the rice was that soft it was more like a rice pudding
I am so sorry your sushi rice did not come out as expected. Your comment mentions that you cooked it in your Crock-Pot. But this recipe is for the Crock-Pot Express. Can you clarify which appliance you used so that perhaps we can help troubleshoot?
I tried this and mine came out fluffy and pretty looking bug it was still hard?
I madc the 2x servings and it came out wonderful! THanks so much!
I am so glad you liked this recipe Toni. Thanks for the kind review!
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Sounds delicious Joshua!