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Instant Pot Vegan Burrito Bowl

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Its a weeknight and you don’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen? Instant Pot Vegan Burrito bowl comes to the rescue. Its a versatile dish and you can add whatever veggies and proteins and toppings to meet your family taste. This homemade burrito bowl is way better than restaurant made as it is healthy, you control what goes in it and no preservatives ever! You can have this burrito bowl for lunch, dinner and anything in between. This homemade instant pot vegan burrito bowl version is amazing, its packed with veggies, beans, and salsa. This is about to become your new go-to meal for weeknights, weekends or any other day! All you need to do is arrange the ingredients in the Instant-pot and walk away.

Soniya Saluja

Soniya Saluja

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Ola everyone! If you love Mexican cuisine, the spicy flavors and meals served in a bowl, this healthy burrito bowl recipe is just the thing for you. It also means that we are now officially best friends ;) and guess what it also turns out much healthier and cost effective!!

I absolutely love one-bowl meals.  It is the main dish and it is a side dish! Everything is already included in this one delicious burrito bowl!  Eat it for lunch, eat it for dinner, or a send it in kids lunch box. Everyone loves the burrito bowl and eats it all up!

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As you know, one of my favorite kitchen GADGET RIGHT NOW is my Instant Pot, and my favorite cuisine to cook in is Mexican, thus I am sharing one of my family favorites with you all today! What’s more is that this burrito bowl recipe is one of those, ‘set it and forget it’ meals. You just dump all the ingredients in the Instant Pot, cover it, and forget about it till its time to eat.

How can I make Chipotle burrito bowl at home

When it comes to Mexican rice bowl aka burrito bowl, you can be super creative.  Just like at Chipotle you select your favorite ingredients to go in a burrito bowl, you can do it here as well.  Add the stuff you love, omit the stuff you don’t –

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What ingredients can I add to the healthy Burrito Bowl?

For the salsa – I used my very own recipe.  Feel free to use the canned salsa – any salsa works well with this burrito bowl!

Black beans – you can make them from scratch at home or use organic non-GMO black beans.

Rice – you can use any rice long grain or small.do not use sticky rice. You will be adding uncooked rice to the instant pot.

For the dressing skip the sour cream and try our 5-minute Avocado Cilantro Dressing, you will never go back to sour cream.

Vegetables – Add as many or as little veggies.

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Don’t have an Instant Pot?

Not to worry!! checkout Stove Top Directions in the NOTES below.

These amazing taco burrito bowls are super healthy too! All those natural unprocessed ingredients are so good for you! Yummy and healthy one-bowl meal – that’s a winner that’s worth making again and again and again! The best part of making these burrito bowls at home is that you can customize them as much as you want. We are all unique, after all. So why should eat someone else’s burrito bowl?

Our Most Loved Mexican Recipes :

Vegetarian Quesadilla

Tomatillo Salsa Verde

Low carb Stuffed Peppers

Mini churro Baked donuts

5 minutes Avocado cilantro dressing

Do check out the Instant Pot Vegan Burrito Bowl Recipe video below

 

Instant pot Vegan burrito bowl

Instant pot Vegan burrito bowl
Its a weeknight and you don’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen? Instant Pot Vegan Burrito bowl comes to the rescue. Its a versatile dish and you can add whatever veggies and proteins and toppings to meet your family taste

Ingredients

  • 2 cup long grain white rice
  • 2 cups water
  • salt to taste
  • 2-3 tablespoons cilantro, chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 cup diced onion
  • 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 jalepeno
  • 2 cups diced bell peppers /colorful bell peppers
  • 1 cup corn (fresh or frozen)
  • 1 (14.5 ounce) can black beans, drained
  • 1-1/2 cups Salsa
  • 3 tbsp taco seasoning
  • 1 avocado, diced
  • few olives- optional
  • 1 cup / optionalShredded vegan cheese

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in the bottom of the Instant Pot, using the "saute" setting. Add in the garlic and jalapenos and give it a stir.Add in the chopped Onions . Saute the onions until start to soften, about 3 to 5 minutes.
  2. Add in the Bell peppers, corn ,black beans ,rice , salsa, salt to taste, taco seasoning and chopped Olives and give it a nice stir.
  3. Add in the water, then seal the lid, making sure that the switch at the top is flipped from venting to sealing. Press the "rice" button, or manually cook at high pressure 5 minutes.
  4. When DONE Let the pressure out.
  5. Remove the lid, being careful to avoid any steam releasing from the pot, Serve warm, with any toppings you love, such as avocado, olives, cheese salsa, and shredded lettuce.

Notes

Stove Top Directions: You can heat everything in a covered pot over the stove. Instead of hitting the “rice” button using the directions above, simply bring everything to a boil in a large pot over high heat, then lower the heat and cover to steam until rice is cooked and the liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove the lid and serving with your favorite topping.

© Soniya Saluja

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    1. I’ve made this 3 or 4 times and love it BUT every.single.time my IP gives me the burn error code after a couple minutes. Any suggestions? I must be doing something wrong.

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      • Hi Kate, So sorry to hear that you have made it so many times and you get BURN notice :( So with all the research on IP I have come to the conclusion that the culprit is Tomato/salsa. Next time if you decide to make add it in the very end and do not stir. One more question what rice are you using? I hope you are washing and rinsing the rice nicely so there is no starch.that can also be the reason.Thanks for reaching out to us abiua the issue.. hope we can solve it💁 xoxo

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      • Hi Radha, we are so glad to hear that ❤️ keep trying our other IP Recipes.. hint hint tomorrow is a new Recipe publish day💁

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    3. I’m assuming the green sauce on top of avocado am I right ?I’m trying to figure out how to make green sauce on top it is not avocado

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    5. Hi Sonia
      Can I try this burrito bowl recipe in a rice cooker
      You have not posted the red salsa recipe that you have used in the recipe
      Pls reply

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        • If I am making this in a Tefal rice cooker if I use 2 cups basmati biryani Long grain rice do I just put in 2 cups of water as stated in your recipe
          How Long will it take to cook in rice cooker ?

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          • If you are going to make it in your rice cooker follow the recipe till you add rice as per instructions given in my receipe card. Then add water as per your rice cooker instructions.Everything else is sauteed and the beans are cooked so it should take average rice cooker time to cook.
            Do share your feedback with us

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      • Hi Heather, unfortunately the dried beans won’t work in this recipe 😒 you would have to cook the beans separately and then add the cooked beans in it coz it on take 5 mins for the rice to cook. We have a Black bean soup (from dried beans) recipe on our blog you can make that and then use some in the burrito bowl next day :)
        Hope you give it a try!
        XOXO

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      • Hey Richa, we are so glad to hear that! Thanks for taking your time out to share your experience with us❤️
        XOXO

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    10. After having been disappointed in the past, I’ve grown skeptical of recipes that seemed too easy to be good. This recipe is certainly the exception! It was super easy and absolutely outstanding!
      A few shortcuts – I used frozen chopped onions and frozen chopped bell peppers (Trader Joe’s). I used the chipotle garlic salsa from Trader Joe’s which is already 1.5 cups and is my altime favorite salsa.
      I will be making this regularly. Thank you for this recipe!

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    11. Tried his recipe today and it was delicious , I added chicken too. Rice was cooked perfectly and my whole family enjoyed it. Recipe was clear and precise. Thank you so much

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      • Hey Dilini, we are so happy to hear that! Thanks for sharing your experience with us ❤️ hope you keep visiting us for more delicious recipes.

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    12. Hello. I am going to try this. Just wondering…..could I substitute brown rice and the directions and timing would remain the same? Thanks.

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      • Thanks Ayesha for taking your time out and sharing your experience with us.. I agree it’s so full of flavors that you do not miss the meat and + the avocado cilantro dressing is the BOMB 😁

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      • Hey Stcy, thanks for sharing your experience with us :) glad to hear that you will be making it again and again and again❤️

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        • I passed it along to a friend & she is making it tonight. Also Thank You for the comment about time adjustment for brown rice, that is helpful for her. Excellence job writing a good recipe. It makes my heart happy when I try a new recipe such as this recipe & it works perfectly,…rice perfect & no burn message! I need to try more of your recipes. Blessings!

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          • Hey Priscilla, It feels nice to know that you were successful in your try the first time! That is what we strive for on our blog.We try are recipes multiple times before posting it on our blog. Thanks sharing your experience with us and your friends… Do try our other IP Recipe ..keep visiting our blog ! xoxo

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    21. Did this today and loved by everyone. Its so easy and flavorful. simply love this dish.can you please suggest few of ur best and easy to make recipes to try ??

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      • Hey Asha, so glad to hear that it was loved by you and your family ❤️ you can switch the beans in this recipe . We have minestrone soup on our blog which is easy quick and delicious .. all our Mexican Recipes too do try our charro beans. Xoxo

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    29. this looks so colourful and healthy! I don’t have an instant pot but if I did I would definitely get on board with this!

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    31. This burrito bowl recipe looks so delicious, I really like the fact that it is vegan as well, I will definitely have to give it a try!

      ~xo Sheree
      poshclassymom.com

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    32. This looks so filling and healthy! Its not easy finding a vegan recipe thats delicious and healthy at the same time, so this definitely hits the mark.

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    35. Yum! We try to stay vegetarian at least once a week, and burrito bowls are my husband’s favorite on those days. It’s nice to know that we have a homemade option too!

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