Instant Pot Fried Rice

It’s true. The Best Fried Rice comes from a piping hot wok.

But, we’ve received emails after emails from many awesome A+J Fans requesting for our Instant Pot Fried Rice Recipe. So we have to make this work for you!! 🙂

After multiple trials, tastings, & experiments, we found a few modifications that make a good Instant Pot Fried Rice achievable.

Chinese Egg Fried Rice is a simple food. So simple with such few ingredients that it can get tricky to be delicious.

What We Look For in a Good Chinese Egg Fried Rice?

The rice & eggs are the heart & soul of the dish, so if you achieve the following results, you’ll nail the dish:

• Rice Texture: perfectly cooked – fluffy, plump, individual grains of rice are separated & chew to the bite; Not mushy, wet, broken, hard, burnt, sticky, soft, or clumped together
• Rice Taste: full of rice fragrance, not too oily, each grain of rice is coated with egg
• Eggs: perfectly cooked – smooth, full of egg fragrance; not overcooked, burnt, dry, tough, big bites clumped together
• Overall: Silky fragrant eggs beautifully blended into fluffy plump rice

Going back to the roots. Keeping it simple with a basic Chinese Fried Rice in Instant Pot with less than 10 ingredients.

Real easy to adapt by throwing in your choice of add-in ingredients.

We usually like to add bits of meat like chicken, ham, shrimp, cubed cured meat or Cha Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork) bits into this Easy Fried Rice.

Real comforting & appetizing to eat! 🙂

Instant Pot Fried Rice Step-by-Step Cooking Guide

Prepare Ingredients for Instant Pot Fried Rice.

First thing is to take out the frozen vegetables and thaw them on the countertop.

You can prep the remaining ingredients when the rice is pressure cooking in Instant Pot.

*Pro Tip: If you are rinsing the rice, make sure the rice is drained really really well!

Instant Pot Fried Rice Experiment

We did multiple experiments to find the best Egg to Rice Ratio & Water to Rice Ratio 🙂

• Egg to Rice Ratio: 2 Large Eggs per 1 cup Rice is the most balanced
• Water to Rice Ratio: 1 cup Rice per 0.9 cup Water is all we need

*Pro Tip: You don’t need “day-old” rice to make tasty fried rice as long as you have the right Water to Rice Ratio to work it’s magic! Slightly drier rice will hold up its texture better.

Pressure Cook Rice in Instant Pot

Add 2 cups (460g) Jasmine rice + 2 tsp (10ml) peanut oil in a stainless steel bowl. Mix well so all the rice is covered with oil.

Pour 1 ¾ cup (438ml) cold water in the rice bowl. Make sure all the rice is submerged in the water.

Pour 1 cup (250ml) cold water and place a trivet in Instant Pot. Layer the rice bowl on the trivet and secure the lid. Turn the Venting Knob to Sealing Position.

Pressure Cooking Method: Pressure cook at High Pressure for 8 minutes, then 10 minutes Natural Release.

While the rice is pressure cooking, prepare the eggs and slice the green onions.

In a large mixing bowl, beat 4 eggs, then split half of the beaten eggs into another container.

After 10 minutes of Natural Releasing, carefully turn the Venting Knob to Venting Position to release the remaining pressure.

Dry Pot & Make Eggy Rice

Immediately remove & add the piping hot cooked rice in the large mixing bowl with 2 beaten eggs.

Very Gently! Mix the rice and eggs until all the rice is coated with eggs.

*Pro Tip: Be careful not to squish or mash the rice with the rice paddle!! Remember we want to have separated individual grains of rice in our final Fried Rice dish! 🙂

Discard the hot water in Instant Pot. Dry the inner pot well with a towel.

Cook Scrambled Eggs

Use Instant Pot Saute More function by pressing the “Cancel” button, then “Saute” button twice.

When the Instant Pot says HOT, pour in 1 tbsp (15ml) peanut oil and wait another minute.

*Pro Tip: You will need the inner pot to be piping hot or the eggs will stick to the pot.

Add in remaining 2 beaten eggs and give it a few quick stirs.

*Pro Tip: You want the eggs to look silky and slightly runny! They’ll continue to cook a little after you’ve removed them from the Instant Pot.

Set aside the eggs.

Cook Instant Pot Fried Rice

Wait until Instant Pot says HOT again.

*Pro Tip: We need Instant Pot to be piping hot!!

Add in 2 tablespoons (30ml) peanut oil and wait another minute.

Add in cooked rice. Do not stir yet! Wait 1 minute before giving it a quick stir.

*Note: We will repeat this step 5 times. Be sure to wait 1 minute between each quick stirs. Patience is key! 😉

You should hear some popping sounds and see some steam coming out of the fried rice after the fourth and fifth time. Oh~ this is going to be good 🙂

*Pro Tip: Make sure the stir-frying is done quickly, but gently. Fried rice is all about the texture and you don’t want to destroy the individual grains or mash them together!

Add Ingredients and Season

Add in the somewhat thawed frozen veggies.

Mix and stir fry until the veggies are hot (~1 ½ – 2 mins)

Sprinkle in 2 tsp (10g) fine salt (please taste and adjust accordingly!) all over the rice.

Add in a dash of white pepper and the scrambled eggs. Stir fry until thoroughly mixed.

Finally, add in the finely sliced green onions and give it a few more quick stirs.

Woohoo!! Your Instant Pot Fried Rice is done!

Taste and add more salt if necessary.

Enjoy your Instant Pot Fried Rice!~ 🙂

Tools for Instant Pot Fried Rice

• Instant Pot Pressure Cooker
• Stainless Steel Steaming Rack or Instant Pot Trivet
• Stainless Steel Bowl (for the Pot-in-Pot rice)
• Large Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl
• Bamboo Wooden Spoons

Other Instant Pot Rice Recipes

Instant Pot Jasmine Rice

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