 Hey everybody today I'm going to show you how to make basmati rice which is a long grain white rice in the instant pot and so that it doesn't stick. A lot of times it'll stick to the bottom of the pot and it's kind of gets clumpy and all of that so hopefully we can avoid that and you can make a nice delicious rice that goes with so many different things. I'm going to be using chicken broth instead of water I like to flavor my rice even if it's just plain white rice just a little bit to give it some interest. So I'm rocking Robin I'm going to show you how to do it right after our chef joke. Alright so let's start off with our chef joke this is number one number two will be a little bit later. So how do you tame wild rice with a very small saddle. Alright so we'll take our basmati rice I'm going to make one cup and we're going to place it in the instant pot. Now I'm going to fill this up with water well not fill the whole pot but just enough to cover the rice and we're going to swirl it around. As you swirl the water around you'll notice that the water becomes sort of milky looking and that's what you want to see you're releasing the starch. So drain out the water in through a strainer and then repeat the process go ahead and fill it back up and then swirl it around and drain it one more time. What I love about cooking this rice in the instant pot is it only takes six minutes to cook. Now we're going to add an equal at least an equal amount of liquid as you have rice okay so I use one cup of rice you want to use at least one cup of liquid. If you use one cup of liquid then your rice is going to turn out to be a little more al dente if you will. So I'm using a cup and a quarter and I'm going to pour the the chicken broth around the side just so I can get all of the rice covered. Now if there's some sticking up there I'm going to just push it down. You want to swirl a little bit so that the rice is underneath the liquid. I'm going to add three quarters of a teaspoon of salt because I I like a little bit of salt in my rice and I'm going to add about almost a tablespoon of oil. Since I added the salt to that I'm going to stir this up and again make sure that the rice is evenly distributed on the bottom of the pan and not piled up in one area. So just like I said give it a little swirl and then we'll place it in the instant pot. Feel free to add any other you know spices or things that you like to your rice or just keep it simple. Put the lid on seal your vent there and we're going to cook this for six minutes on high and we're going to do a natural release at the end of about 10 minutes which means that we're not going to force the vent open. We're going to let it just sit and do its own thing. It won't totally be vented so at the end you're going to have to manually do it to force the rest of it out so it's safe to open. Alright our rice is cooking so let's get to chef joke number two. What do you get when you have fish and rice in a shoe? Shoe sheet. Alright so the instant pot went over a little bit it's been 14 minutes instead of 11 but we'll see what happens. I'm going to do a quicker release now and get the rest of the it's almost done. Yeah it is okay we've got a full release so if I just you know scrape it up it did not stick to the bottom of the pot as you can see there. You want to fluff it up and stick them together a little bit but not bad. Let me tell you it's nice and tender I can tell by the way it feels. It's a little bit of the yellow color to it because of the chicken broth. You can use plain water if you like or you can use a vegetable broth or you know like I said just plain water. Now you do have to be careful when you're adding chicken broth depending on how much salt is in your chicken broth. Mine was low sodium so I used three-quarters of a teaspoon and you know you might want to play with it maybe a half a teaspoon you can always add more but you can't take it out. You can take a little bit of parsley or cilantro if you want to basil and chop that up and sprinkle it on top if you like. I'm just going to sprinkle that in and stir it up and you don't have to add it if you don't want to. Sometimes I've added lime juice just a little spritz. The rice turned out nice and fluffy and it tastes really delicious it was nicely seasoned with the chicken broth. So if you want to try a great recipe to go with this Basmati rice try this honey chicken it is so delicious you will love it. Click the link right there on the screen. We'll see you next time.