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Instant Pot Vegetable Wild Rice Soup Recipe

June 1, 2018 By Joe Boyle 3 Comments

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Instant pot mushroom vegetable wild rice soup is a hearty, tasty dinner that cooks itself in your pressure cooker. 

Vegetable wild rice soup with mushrooms in a bowl.

Vegetable Wild Rice Soup

MaryJo and I are back up in Minnesota for the summer and Minnesota is the home of wild rice, (along with Canada which has a lot of wild rice). It is something that is sometimes hard to find in certain parts of the country but worth the effort to get ahold of some.

Most of the wild rice found in stores is farmed and cultivated to get the most yield year after year. It has a hard, black outer sheath and requires plenty of cooking time…like 1 hour or more, to make it soft.

If you can find real, hand-harvested wild rice, it has a much softer sheath and is brown in color. This wild rice takes 15 minutes to cook. Big difference.  I did another wild rice recipe, Creamy Ham Wild Rice Soup, where you can find lots more interesting facts about wild rice.

Overhead view of Instant pot mushroom vegetable wild rice soup.

This recipe calls for the cultivated rice, since it’s most prevalent. It cooks beautifully in your pressure cooker and in 45 minutes it will be soft and savory good.

And I know you won’t tell anyone, but there are a couple strips of chopped up, crispy bacon strips in this soup…just to give a little extra umami, which is rich, wholesome flavoring. The soup is creamy and very tasty.

Mushroom and vegetable wild rice soup close-up.

You should serve this mushroom vegetable wild rice soup with some crusty bread for an exceptional dinner.

A bowl of wild rice soup.

Instant Pot Mushroom Vegetable Wild Rice Soup

This is a flavorful soup recipe sure to be a crowd pleaser.
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Course: Main Course, Soup
Cuisine: American
Keyword: wild rice
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 436kcal
Author: Joe Boyle

Ingredients

  • 1 lbs wild rice black sheathed cultivated
  • 3 cups vegetable broth
  • 1 cup carrots, diced 2 carrots
  • 1 cup yellow onions, diced 1/2 large onion
  • 1 cup celery, diced 2 stalks
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 thick cut bacon strips, fried crispy and chopped
  • 8 oz. button mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp dried thyme
  • 2 tsp dried sage
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 1/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 2 cups whole milk or substitute non-fat,1%, or 2%
  • salt and pepper to taste
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Instructions

  • Add all the ingredients, (except the flour, milk, and extra salt and pepper) to the Instant pot and stir to combine.  Select pressure cook, high pressure and set the timer for 45 minutes. Do a quick release of pressure and remove lid.
  • Turn on the sauté setting of the electric pressure cooker and stir in the flour and let cook for 2 minutes to get rid of the floury taste. Add the milk and stir. Bring to a boil to thicken, 2 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasonings as desired. Serve hot with some good, crusty bread.

Notes

  1. If the soup seems too thick, add some additional vegetable broth to thin it out.
  2. Recipe adapted from Lindsay Ostrom, Pinch of Yum

Nutrition

Calories: 436kcal
 

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  1. kelly k

    June 3, 2018 at 8:33 am

    5 stars
    this sounds absolutely delicious! but i don’t have an instant pot…how would i, and could i, cook this on the stove, in a regular pot, or in a crock pot?

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    • Joe

      June 3, 2018 at 10:09 am

      Hi Kelly, Put everything except the butter, flour, milk, and extra salt and pepper, into a large pot or dutch oven. Simmer for up to 1 1/2 hours checking the rice for tenderness after one hour. When the rice isn’t chewy, it’s done. Then proceed to thicken the soup per instructions. Thanks for the comment.

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      • kelly k

        June 7, 2018 at 6:39 pm

        thanks, Joe! keep up the delicious recipes!!

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