Instant Pot Rice Recipe: Stick of Butter Rice (2024)

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March 28, 2016 by Stephanie Manley, Last Updated May 26, 2022 34 Comments

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Instant Pot Stick of Butter Rice is a variation of my Stick of Butter Rice recipe you bake in the oven. This recipe is so easy to make, and you can prepare this recipe in your Instant Pot or another style of pressure cooker.

Do you love Instant Pot rice recipes? I bet you do. You can make rice easily in your Instant Pot. It is actually my preferred way to make rice. It is so easy to cook rice in an Instant Pot. You simply add your water and rice, you use the rice setting on your Instant Pot, and in less than 30 minutes you have delicious rice.

I think by pressure cooking rice you get rice that is perfectly cooked, and for me, this cooks more quickly in a pressure cooker than with a rice cooker. If you have followed me for any length of time online you will know one of my dirty little secrets, I can’t cook rice on the stovetop. I simply lack this talent. You may have the skill, I do not have it.

For this recipe, I am using plain long grain rice. I haven’t tried making this recipe with brown rice, or even basmati rice, so this recipe is just for regular long-grain rice. You will also need 2 cans of French Onion soup, 2 cans of beef consume, some Worcestershire sauce, and a stick of butter. You don’t need to add any water.

This recipe does vary from the one that you bake in the oven, it uses less butter. It actually uses half of the butter, but it comes out just as flavorful. I know if you try this recipe you will soon fall in love with this recipe.

Want to learn more about cooking rice in a pressure cooker? Be sure to check out Hip Pressure Cooking website’s page. How to cook rice in a Pressure Cooker.

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Instant Pot Rice Recipe - Stick of Butter Rice

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Instant Pot Recipes, Stick of Butter Rice

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 305kcal

Author: Stephanie Manley

Ingredients

20 ounces Beef Consume 2 cans
20 ounces concentrated French Onion Soup 2 cans
4 ounces butter
2 cups rice

Instructions

Place all ingredients in the Instant Pot pressure cooker.
Set the Instant Pot on the rice setting.
When the cooking cycle finishes, perform a natural release on the pot and enjoy.

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Notes

Do you have a different pressure cooker? According to Hip Pressure Cooking, you set it for about 3 minutes for 2 cups of rice. Then either high or low pressure, and then allow the pressure to do a natural release.

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Deb Coffelt
July 20, 2018 at 2:41 pm

Do you rinse your rice before adding to instant pot?
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- Stephanie
  July 21, 2018 at 4:39 am
  I do not, but I know others do.
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- Ken Easterling
  October 10, 2019 at 3:34 am
  I always rinse my rice before cooking. I learned to cook rice in SW Asia while stationed there. It removes a lot of the surface starch. I was told that the starch causes the rice to stick together while cooking if you don’t rinse it. I like the rice to be fluffy and rinsing ensures that.
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Dona
July 1, 2018 at 11:30 pm
Add 1/2 cup of slivered almonds to you recipe, sooo good!
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- Stephanie
  July 2, 2018 at 3:22 am
  Thank you for that great idea.
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pawprints
June 5, 2018 at 1:28 pm
i love your suggestions in recipes i def will try it later, got so much flavor i see
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Cynthia
January 8, 2018 at 3:57 pm
Do you happen to have a recipe for making “Rice a Roni”.. In an instant pot by chance? I’d love it!
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- Stephanie
  January 9, 2018 at 4:54 am
  I do not have one at this time. I appreciate the suggestion.
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Phyllis
November 20, 2017 at 10:04 am
Do you use the rice cup that came with instant pot for measuring rice and a regular measuring cup for measuring other liquid? I know it makes a difference.
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- Stephanie Manley
  November 20, 2017 at 10:24 am
  No, when I created the recipe I used standard measuring cups.
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victoria
November 16, 2017 at 3:45 pm
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Is there any way to make it with whole foods—without the canned French Onion Soup and canned Beef Consume? I have plenty of homemade beef stock. Do you think I could cook it down and caramelize onions?
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- Stephanie Manley
  November 20, 2017 at 10:25 am
  You could do it with your own beef stock and French onion soup, I don’t think it will taste quite the same. For the recipe to work, just make sure your liquid/rice ratio is as written in the recipe.
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Nanette Wild
March 23, 2017 at 5:34 pm
As there are only two of us in this household lots of rice at one time is not required. I usually make the amount specified and freeze the rest.. It thaws beautifully with the grains all separate. Just a quick nuke in the microwave and we are set to go. I love my Instant pot.
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- Mary Jo
  January 10, 2021 at 2:54 pm
  The recipe that I have is half of this. 1 can each of the soups, 1 stick butter, 1 C rice. I rinse my rice also and I add a large can of mushrooms. I have been making this for many years. It’s AWESOME!!! Haven’t tried it in my Instant Pot yet tho
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Glenda
December 7, 2016 at 6:24 pm
Does this recipe for the Instant Pot use 1 stick of butter or 1/2 stick of butter. I’m a little confused because it says it uses less than the oven method. The oven method shows 1 Stick of butter and so does this recipe. I just want to make sure I have it right before I try it, Looks delicious. Thank you!
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- Stephanie
  December 7, 2016 at 10:01 pm
  Use 1 stick of butter for the instant pot. The oven method uses half the amount of rice, but it still uses 1 stick of butter.
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  - Glenda
    December 8, 2016 at 6:36 am
    That makes sense! That you for taking the time to explain! Can’t wait to make this!
Kelly
November 14, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Would this work if cut recipe cut in half?
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- Stephanie
  November 14, 2016 at 8:33 pm
  It would work ok, but I am not sure how you would divide it up.
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  - Linda Klein
    May 26, 2017 at 4:03 pm
    Couldn’t you just cut everything in half?
Susan Bell
October 4, 2016 at 3:10 pm
I can’t wait to get a pressure cooker and try this. I’m like you; can’t cook regular rice on the stove to save my life. I just buy instant rice, or those pouches of microwave rice. They both work fine, but cost a lot more in the long run.
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Michael Rosendahl
September 20, 2016 at 4:14 pm
Do you dilute the french onion soup and beef consume first?
Ths sound really good.
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- MaryJo
  January 10, 2021 at 2:56 pm
  Don’t dilute the soups. Add them straight from the can
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Julie
August 8, 2016 at 10:52 am
Sounds like way too much liquid.
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Sandy
August 8, 2016 at 10:15 am
I am novice to the Instant Pot…when setting it on the rice button,do you have to set a time?
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- Stephanie
  August 10, 2016 at 4:34 am
  You do not need to set a time when pressing the rice button. It will take care of that for you.
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Martha
May 12, 2016 at 6:50 am
Can you make this in the oven or stovetop? I don’t have a pressure cooker
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- Stephanie Manley @CopyKat.com
  May 12, 2016 at 7:12 am
  Yes, here was my oven version.
  https://copykat.com/stick-butter-rice/
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Richa
April 21, 2016 at 1:27 am
Usually I am scared of cooking,but this looks like a recipe I can muster courage for 🙂
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- Paul
  April 27, 2016 at 12:45 am
  Scared? Good grief, do you think it is going to bite your nose?
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Nancy Killius
March 30, 2016 at 4:09 pm
Looks like a great rice recipe except we can not have all that sodium. Do you have any quick recipes with low sodium?
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- Stephanie
  April 1, 2016 at 4:42 am
  i haven’t worked on any yet.
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Karen
March 28, 2016 at 2:52 pm
How do you make this in another brand of electric pressure cooker that doesn’t have presets?
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- Stephanie
  March 28, 2016 at 6:00 pm
  According to http://www.hippressurecooking.com/easy-pressure-cooker-steamed-rice/ you set it for about 3 minutes for 1 1/2 cups of rice, I am going to say 5 minutes for the 2 cups of rice here. Then either high or low pressure, and then allow the pressure to do a natural release.
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Instant Pot Rice Recipe: Stick of Butter Rice (2024)

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Should I add butter to rice in rice cooker? ›

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Set the Instant Pot to Saute (normal). To change the settings on Sauté mode either press the adjust button or press Sauté button multiple times to switch between less, normal and more modes. Add the butter to the Instant Pot. Butter will start to melt, then turn milky & frothy.

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Directions

Rinse your rice. Start by rinsing a cup of rice under cool, clean water in your rice washing bowl or strainer.
Add the rice to your cooker. Turn your rice cooker on and then add your rice to the interior. ...
Add water. ...
Add salt. ...
Stir everything with your paddle. ...
Close the rice cooker.

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