Make perfect restaurant-quality Instant Pot sushi rice for a speedy dish that the whole family will love! This homemade sushi rice is great for sushi bowls and making your own rolls at home. No pressure cooker? You’ll also find stovetop instructions in the recipe.
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time6 minutesmins
Pressurizing/Depressurizing8 minutesmins
Total Time19 minutesmins
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Fusion
Keyword: cooking sushi rice in instant pot, how to make sushi rice in instant pot, sushi rice in instant pot, sushi rice Instant Pot
In the insert of the Instant Pot, add rice and water. Gently shake until rice is under the water.
2 cups water
Lock the lid into place and set the steam release handle (valve on top) to “Sealing”.
Press Manual>High Pressure>6 minutes. It will take ~6 minutes to get up to pressure.
When the rice has finished cooking, the Instant Pot will beep and switch to ”keep warm". Press the keep warm/off button until the Instant Pot turns off.
Allow it to sit for 10 minutes and then flip the switch to "venting" to release pressure. Carefully open the lid.
Using a rice paddle or wooden spoon, carefully remove the rice by "cutting" into it at a 45 degree angle, and place rice in a large shallow glass or wooden dish.
Slowly drizzle the vinegar mixture over the rice, and gently toss the rice with the rice paddle or wooden mixing spoon to coat the grains.
Allow to cool to room temperature. Pro tip: if you're in a rush, you can use a small fan to cool the sushi rice more quickly.
Notes
Don't skip the step of rinsing the rice either in a fine-mesh strainer or a rice rinsing bowl. Sushi rice is very sticky and rinsing multiple times removes the excess starch from the dry rice.
Look for "unseasoned rice vinegar" instead of seasoned or sushi vinegar which will have added salt or sugar.
This recipe used measuring cups and not a rice cup.
Allow rice to fully cool before rolling any sushi.
Stovetop: combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil, reduce to low and cook for 20 minutes with the lid on. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes with the lid on.Follow the directions above to carefully remove rice from the saucepan to separate and season.