Cilantro lime rice is an ideal side dish for any chicken, salmon or Mexican-inspired dinners. It can also be added as a filling for delicious burritos, tacos or bulk up a salad with it.
Jump to RecipeMise en Place Ingredients
Start with preparing your mise en place ingredient station. Wash and chop produce and herbs (cilantro). Set aside other ingredients in bowls, containers, or plates until ready to start cooking.
Making Cilantro Lime Rice
To make this cilantro lime rice, wash your white rice with a fine mesh strainer. This helps the rice to be more
light and fluffy.
Making rice in the Instant Pot or pressure cooker makes it so much faster while you’re cooking your meat for your burritos, tacos or salads.
After rinsing rice, add it to the pressure cooker. Turn knob to sealing not venting. Cook on the rice setting for
12 minutes.
While it’s cooking, make the cilantro lime mixture. After rice is done, pour mixture into the pressure cooker. Fluff rice with a fork and then transfer to your burrito, taco or salad.
Yes, it’s that simple!
Recipe Tips:
- Prepare all produce and herbs beforehand (aka mise en place). This method helps make all recipes go faster.
- Rinsing your rice before cooking helps your rice becomes more light and fluffy.
- Cooking your rice with an Instant Pot or pressure cooker makes it much faster.
- Use fresh lime juice to make this rice more flavorful.
- Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. Do not freeze.
Other Recipe Ideas to Use This Rice
If you’re a looking for some ideas to use this rice, try out some of these recipes.
Questions? Leave me a comment below. If you make this recipe, tag me @the.design.foodie on Instagram or @thedesignfoodieashlee on Facebook! Happy cooking!
Copycat Café Rio Slow Cooker Sweet Pork
Ingredients
- 2.5 lb porkloin roast
- 20 oz bottle Coca-Cola, divided
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1/8 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp ground pepper
- 1 (4 oz) can mild diced green chiles
- 1 (10 oz) can red enchilada sauce
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- flour or corn tortillas
Toppings:
- black beans, warmed
- lettuce, washed and chopped
- tomatoes, diced
- pico de gallo
Instructions
- Start with coating a slow cooker/crockpot with nonstick spray. Place pork inside. Pour 10 ounces of Coca-Cola and water around pork. Liquid doesn't need to cover the entire pork roast.
- Add garlic salt, kosher salt and ground pepper over pork roast. Cover with lid and cook on low for 8 hours (or on high for 6 hours).
- After finished, transfer pork to a cutting board or plate. Shred pork with two forks and cut off any excess fat. Discard liquid from slow cooker.
- In a blender, add remaining 10 ounces of Coca-Cola, diced green chiles, red enchilada sauce and brown sugar. Blend until smooth.
- Place shredded pork back into slow cooker. Pour sauce mixture over pork. Cover slow cooker with lid and cook for another 1 hour on low.
- Serve pork with burritos, tacos or in a salad.
To Assemble Tacos:
- Layer flour tortillas with black beans, cilantro lime rice (see notes)*, sweet pork, lettuce, tomatoes, and pico de gallo.
Notes
- Burrito (as a filling)
- Tacos (as a filling)
- Salad
Easy Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Rice
