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.
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.
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.
What you need to know for this Instant Pot Pork Chops & Rice with Vegetables Recipe.
- Use thin pork chops so they cook with the rice.
- 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 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.
Equipment & Ingredients You May Need to Make Instant Pot Pork Chops & Rice with Vegetables
Instant Pot Ultra 6 Qt 10-in-1 Multi-
Instant Pot DUO80 8 Qt 7-in-1Instant Pot Duo Mini 3 Qt 7-in-1Bellemain Stainless Steel Measuring Cup Set, 6Cuisipro Stainless Steel Measuring Spoon SetTilda Basmati Rice, 10-Pound BagMorton Salt Iodized Sea Salt – 26McCormick Table Ground Black Pepper, 16 ozBell Plantation Roasted Peanut Oil, 12.3 Fluid
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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.
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 cup onion, chopped
- 1 cup long grain basmati rice, rinsed
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 4 pork chops, thin cut
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup mixed vegetables, frozen
- 1 carrot julienned
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.
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.
Cook at High Pressure for 5 minutes, and allow it to release pressure naturally for 10 minutes. Release any remaining pressure, and serve.
- 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.
I am not a registered dietician or nutritionist. Nutritional information is provided a courtesy, and can vary depending on the exact ingredients you use.
Gill says
My pork was too dry any suggestions?
Peter Ruscoe says
I have to wonder what size of Instant Pot you used. If it was the “mini pot” I could see this working, but for 6 or 8 quart, the water isn’t enough to build up pressure. I had to add almost another cup (after the first attempt failed) and THEN it cooked correctly.
Peter Ruscoe says
Ah, I note you say “set to high pressure.” Not all Instant Pots give you a choice – mine doesn’t. Still, that doesn’t explain why it never came up to pressure at all until I added more water.
URVASHI PITRE says
So is it doesn’t give a choice then by default it’s set to high pressure. I suspect you had something stuck at the bottom of the pot that kept it from coming to pressure
URVASHI PITRE says
8 quarts might pose an issue esp if it’s a newer one. I do make it in a 6 quart successfully though. Glad it worked for you
Leanne says
I made this tonight and was very yummy! Kids approved!
I followed the layering steps as stated. I did use rinsed instant brown rice, because that is what I had on hand. I substituted water with chicken broth. Increased cooking time to 7 Mins. It came out great! Rice was creamy and moist. No issues with burning while cooking. I will be making again!
Angie says
I love the taste of this recipe but I can. It get my pot to come to pressures I even tried adding a full cup of water. Plus I always have some rice to burn to the bottom of the pot. Not sure what is happening.
URVASHI PITRE says
I wonder if I just replied to you on the IP community?
Mary F says
I also had the BURN message come up twice during pressure cooking which delayed the cook time while I checked the contents. My husband and I think that the slightly scorched food on the bottom just added needed flavor. The pork chops (with bone) tasted too bland. I might try a pork chop rub with this recipe the next time and I will ignore the BURN message.
Jennifer Mackenzie says
It was great !!
Pauly P in NC says
More water is defiantly required.
Burn warning came up just after HP reached.
Full cup at least
URVASHI PITRE says
As you may see from many comments both here, on the instant pot community, and on my Facebook page, many people make this successfully exactly as written.
I’d invite you to watch the video I created on the 5 reasons why your food burns in the instant pot.
Sandy says
We did as instructed, but the rice was undercooked. Did not have frozen veggies so we used fresher carrots. We put it at high pressure for another 3 minutes, it’s better but need more cooking. We put it for another 4 minutes. Meat and carrots are pork are perfect but the rice? Still not fully cooked. I took the carrots and pork out. Decided to cook rice for another 3 minutes. Rice is good now but guess what? It’s burnt at the bottom!! Guess need to add more oil or water.
URVASHI PITRE says
Did you push the rice down to be covered by the cooking liquid? If you don’t, it can’t absorb the liquid it needs.
Fresh carrots also absorb water in a way that frozen ones don’t (they release water). Depending on the size/thickness of the carrots they could have sucked up some of that water.
When you added another 4 minutes did you add more water? Without it the rice wouldn’t have any way to cook due to the high starch content.
Lynnie says
This recipe came out perfect. Rice , veggies and pork chops were perfectly cooked so easy. The only thing I would change is the amount of pepper, it was a bit too spicy for my taste.