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Instant Pot Recipe: Rice Millet Multi-Grain Blend

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Instant Pot Recipe: Rice & Millet | Feed Your Skull

It’s time to get into another easy Instant Pot recipe!

Today we have a do-it-yourself grain blend of white jasmine rice and millet.

Having cooked millet before—perhaps poorly—I had decided I didn’t like it.

It wasn’t soft and chewy like quinoa or fluffy like rice. It was seedy. 😝 In fact some varieties of millet are in bird seed. Tweet tweet?

Photo courtesy of MPhotographe

So here I am with a jar of it (it’s how we store bulk grains from the co-op) and no desire to eat it except to avoid wasting it.

Enter recipe!

I’ve been cooking rice in the Instant Pot like a pro. I usually make a 1-2 cups and store it in a pyrex container for quick lunch, dinner, and sometimes breakfast meals.

I decided to add millet to that day’s rice and see what transpired. I treated each grain like a separate recipe and looked up the water to grain ratio.

I then added the rice and its water followed by the millet and its water. I cooked according to the rice settings in the instruction manual and…

Instant Pot Recipe: Rice & Millet | Feed Your Skull

A gorgeous fragrant miracle happened!

Instant Pot Recipe: Rice & Millet | Feed Your SkullThe millet cooked perfectly and for what is kind of unpleasant on it’s own, turned out great surrounded by rice buddies.

Millet adds a creamy yellow color and a barely noticeable nutty flavor.

I’ve since used up the millet and look forward to buying more!

How about that?

I’d love to see your food pics! If you give this recipe a whirl, let us know. <3 Leave a comment below and don’t forget to tag a picture with #feedyourskull on Instagram!

Instant Pot Recipe: Rice Millet Multi-Grain Blend

  • Yield: 8 servings
  • Serving Size: Approximately 1/2 cup plus a bit
  • Calories per serving: 207
  • Fat per serving: 0 grams

Ingredients

  • 2 cups jasmine or long-grain white rice
  • 1/2 cup millet
  • 3 1/4 cups water
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt (optional)

Instructions

  1. Put rice, millet, water, and salt into the Instant Pot and give a quick stir. Secure the lid, set to pressure, and hit the rice button. Ours defaulted to 10 minutes based on the internal weight.
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Instant Pot Recipe: Rice & Millet | Feed Your Skull

Enjoy! xx

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