Instant Pot Pork Chops and Rice with Vegetables

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For the days you’re tired and hurried, here’s a 30-minute Instant Pot Pork Chops and Rice and Vegetables recipe that requires almost no effort. Tender pork chops, comforting soft rice, and veggies your kids might eat.

This is one of those easy recipes where you take rice, thin boneless pork chops, whatever vegetables you happen to have in your freezer. You add a little salt and pepper and water. You throw everything into your Instant Pot. You set it for 5 minutes, and walk away. Come back to a family-friendly dinner.

Really. It’s that simple

Comfort food that the whole family will love, with very little work, and if you’re feeding only yourself, great meal prep and freezer food.

Instant Pot Pork Chops and Rice with Vegetables

My kids love my plain pork chops with rice and they’ve always wanted to eat it plain.

But I’m a sneaky mom and when they were little, I’d add vegetables to it because that’s what Moms do.

Although my older one, Mark, was great with veggies, the younger one, Alex, needs them sneaked into him.

Sure he’d pick around the veggies, but I hoped he’d miss one every once in a while and hey presto! Veggies snuck into an unsuspecting kid!

The good news is that you can use whatever veggies will go over well in your household.

For this batch, I used julienned carrots, and frozen mixed vegetables. As long as you use vegetables that are not super starchy (like potatoes!) you can use whatever other frozen vegetables you have.

The reason NOT to use potatoes or other super starchy things, is that those vegetables ABSORB water to help the starch cook. You will likely not have enough water if you did that.

How To Make Pork Chops and Rice in your Instant Pot Pressure Cooker

1. For this recipe, add oil, onions, rice, salt and pepper into the Instant Pot. You do not need to sauté anything. Yup, you read that right. The pressure cooker will take care of all the cooking for you.

2. Place pork chops on top of the rice. Pour in water and push down the rice to ensure it’s covered by the water.

3. Add whatever vegetables you intended to use. DO NOT STIR. You want these vegetables on top so that they won’t overcook.

4. Set the Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker to 5 minutes. At the end of the cook time, let it rest undisturbed for 10 minutes. This is important cook time for the ingredients, so do not rush it.

5. Ready to serve! The pork chops will be well-cooked. The rice will be soft and therefore well loved by kids and grown ups alike.

Tips & Tricks for this Instant Pot Pork Chops & Rice with Vegetables Recipe.

• Use thin pork chops so they cook with the rice. You can use boneless pork chops as well.
• Do not exceed the quantity of vegetables called for, as you will have way too much water and mushy rice if you do that.
• This recipe makes very soft rice so use the longest grain rice you can find and don’t add extra water.
• The pork chops and vegetables will release plenty of water.
• Be sure the rice is well covered with water; push it down if you need to.
• If you double the recipe. use only 1 3/4 cups of water.

So the next time you’re looking for a quick, yet family friendly dinner to cook up, make this Instant Pot Pork Chops and Rice with Vegetables! Your family is sure to love how it tastes and you’re sure to love how little effort is involved in making it!

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Instant Pot Pork Chops and Rice with Vegetables

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

For the days you’re tired and harried, here’s an 30-minute Instant Pot Pork Chops and Rice and Vegetables recipe that requires almost no effort. Throw everything into your pressure cooker, set it for 5 minutes, and walk away.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: instant pot pork chops, instant pot pork chops and rice, pressure cooker pork chops

Dietary Consideration: Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, High Protein

Cooking Style: Instant Pot/Pressure Cooker

Ease of Cooking: Less than 5 ingredients, Pour and Cook, Under 30 Mins

Recipe Type: Pork, Pressure Cooker, RIce

Servings: 4

Calories: 408 kcal

Author: Urvashi Pitre

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 cup onion, chopped
• 1 cup Basmati Rice rinsed
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Ground Black Pepper
• 4 pork chops, thin cut
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup mixed vegetables, frozen
• 1 carrot julienned

US Customary – Metric

Instructions

1. Place all ingredients into the inner liner of your pressure cooker in the order listed. Oil and onions at the bottom, rice with salt and pepper on top of that, pork chops on the rice, pour water and strew about the vegetables on top.

2. Be absolutely sure that the rice is sitting under the water otherwise it will not cook. If you use potatoes or other starchy vegetables, you may need to add water. If you don’t rinse your rice, you may need to add a little extra water.  

3. Cook at High Pressure for 5 minutes, and allow it to release pressure naturally for 10 minutes. Release any remaining pressure, and serve.

Recipe Notes

• Use thin pork chops so they cook with the rice.
• Do not exceed the quantities of vegetables called for, as you will have way too much water and mushy rice if you do that.
• This recipe makes a very soft rice so use the longest grain rice you can find and don’t add extra water.
• The pork chops and vegetables will release plenty of water.
• Be sure the rice is well covered with water; push it down if you need to. If you don’t your rice will not cook. 

Nutrition facts per serving

408kcal | Fat: 8g | Saturated fat: 2g | Carbohydrates: 45g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Protein: 34g

I am not a registered dietician or nutritionist. Nutritional information is provided a courtesy, and can vary depending on the exact ingredients you use.

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