Jamaican Instant Pot Rice and Beans

Ingredients

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• 1 Tbsp vegetable broth 🛒
• 1 chopped Onion
• 1 clove Garlic
• 2 chopped Spring Onions
• 2 cup Rice
• ¾ cup Coconut Milk
• ¾ cup Water
• 1½ tsp Salt
• ½ tsp Allspice
• ¼ tsp Black Pepper
• 1 lb Kidney Beans
• 2 sprig Thyme

Method

1. Instructions Set Instant Pot to "Sauté." Once Hot, add vegetable broth.
2. Then add yellow onion and stir until softened, about 3 minutes.
3. Add garlic and green onions and stir for about 30 more seconds.
4. Press “Cancel” on the Instant Pot.
5. Add rice, coconut milk, water, salt, allspice, and black pepper and stir.
6. Pour undrained kidney beans on top of the rice mixture. Do not stir.
7. Lay sprigs of thyme on top.
8. Cover the Instant Pot, ensuring the valve is set to “Sealing.” Press “Manual” or “Pressure Cook” on the Instant Pot and set for High pressure for 6 minutes.
9. Once the pressure cooking time is done, allow it to natural release for 10 minutes, then quick release any remaining pressure by moving valve to "Venting" Open lid and remove thyme sprigs.
10. Fluff rice with fork and Enjoy!
11. Stove Top Instructions Heat vegetable broth in a large pot over medium heat.
12. Add yellow onion and stir until softened, about 3 minutes.
13. Add garlic and green onions and stir for about 30 more seconds.
14. Add rice, undrained kidney beans, coconut milk, water, salt, allspice, and black pepper and stir until combined. Lay thyme on top.
15. Bring mixture to a simmer.
16. Cover with a lid and reduce heat to low.
17. Allow to cook for 18 minutes over low heat, then remove from heat.
18. Leave the lid on for an additional 5 minutes.
19. Open the lid and remove the thyme. Fluff rice with fork. Enjoy.

About the ingredients

vegetable broth

A salt-free, all-purpose vegetable broth. Onion, carrots, celery, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, kombu, parsley.

Onion Allium cepa

Bulb vegetable, eaten raw or cooked. Whole minimally-processed plant food; 'organic' refers to cultivation only. WFPB-canonical.

Garlic Allium sativum

Garlic itself is canonical, but extract denotes a concentrated/isolated derivative outside the whole-food canon. Marketed as natural/healthy supplement, hence mistaken-as-WFPB flag.

Spring Onions Allium fistulosum

Young onion harvested before bulb forms; the whole white base and green tops eaten fresh. Aromatic allium, raw or cooked. Low-calorie, vitamin K, vitamin C, folate. Whole fresh vegetable — canonical WFPB.

Rice Oryza sativa

Edible cereal grain seed. 'Non-GMO' is a marketing label claim, not a distinct ingredient. Whole grain (brown) is intact; whole-food cereal. Canonical to WFPB.

Coconut Milk Cocos nucifera

The fruit of the coconut palm; edible white flesh and water. Whole, high-fat plant food. 'Organic' is a farming descriptor, not processing. Whole coconut flesh is canonical WFPB (distinct from extracted coconut oil).

Water

Plain potable water (H2O). Universal solvent and culinary base, no calories or nutrients beyond trace minerals. Not derived from any organism; an unprocessed essential. WFPB canonical.

Salt NaCl

Crystalline sodium chloride, harvested by evaporating seawater or mining rock-salt deposits. Used as seasoning and preservative since antiquity—central to trade and food economies for millennia. A mineral, not a plant food, and a sodium isolate; noncanonical to WFPB.

Allspice Pimenta dioica

Allspice: dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a Caribbean/Central American tree; named for its clove-cinnamon-nutmeg-like aroma. Indigenous to the New World, exported widely after Columbian contact. Used whole or ground. Rich in eugenol; a whole dried spice. Canonical WFPB.

Black Pepper Piper nigrum

Dried unripe fruit (peppercorns) of the pepper vine, used whole or ground. A whole dried spice with nothing added or extracted. Canonical WFPB aromatic.

Kidney Beans Phaseolus vulgaris

Large red kidney-shaped seeds of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Whole dried legume; must be boiled to destroy phytohaemagglutinin lectin (traditional preparation). High protein, fiber, folate, iron. WFPB-canonical.

Thyme Thymus vulgaris

Fresh or dried leaf+tender stem. Bare name is the herb, not the distilled essential oil.