As you may know I love cooking gammon, I tend to cook it with plenty of stock so I have leftovers for this delicious Instant Pot Gammon Rice. In the style of a risotto, it is so easy to pressure cook and it makes the most of your gammon leftovers.
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Instant Pot Gammon Rice
Equipment
- Instant Pot / Instant Pot Duo Crisp
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil or oil of your choice
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 carrot small-medium, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- ½ stalk of celery finely chopped
- 1 dash red/white wine about 20 ml (optional, can use some of the stock)
- 300 g arborio rice
- 800 ml gammon stock
- 100 g gammon leftovers diced, don't worry if you have less, add what you've got, it all contributes to the flavour. Find out how to pressure cook your gammon first
- 80 g extra mature cheddar cheese or cheese of your choice, grated
Instructions
- Add the 1 teaspoon of oil to the inner pot. Press Sauté and set to Less. Add the chopped onion, carrot, garlic and celery and stir to coat in the oil. Put the glass lid on and let it sauté for a few minutes.
- Add a dash of red wine or about 20 ml of stock and stir the rice in. Mix it well.
- After 1-2 minutes, add the stock. As it's gammon stock, don't add any salt just yet.
- Make sure the sealing ring is in and well pressed down. Lock the lid in. Steam release handle point to Sealing, unless you have a self-sealing lid (how cool are they?).
- Pressure Cook, high pressure, 5 minutes. Quick pressure release.
- Stir in the diced ham, check to see if it needs any salt.
- Air Fryer Lid: after stirring in the gammon, quickly scrape the walls down with a silicone spatula. Sprinkle the cheese and put the Air Fryer Lid on, pressing down to make sure it connects well. In the Instant Pot Duo Crisp, press Grill / Broil, 204°C, in total I did 8 minutes. 4 minutes and checked. Added 2 minutes and checked again. Another 2 minutes and it was perfect.If your air fryer lid reaches a higher temperature, use the maximum temperature and reduce the time, I'd do it in 2-3 minute bursts first as it will happen quickly and you don't want to overcook the rice.
Notes
Nutrition
Photos
Air Fryer lid photos
If you don't have an air fryer lid, either stir the cheese at the end (which is what I used to do before the air fryer lid came along or put under the grill or in the oven).
How to cook the gammon
This recipe uses leftover gammon and stock from cooking that gammon.
So make sure you read the post where I explain how to pressure cook gammon first. This will work in any type of pressure cooker you may have, including electric pressure cookers like Instant Pot or Ninja, as well as stove-top pressure cookers.
How many does this recipe serve?
Serves 4. You can halve it or double it. Timings remain the same but you have to be mindful of the filling rules.
Make sure you let me know how it turns out!
Other things you can cook with gammon leftovers
This Ham and Cabbage Soup.
Or add it to this Chicken, Leek and Carrot Soup, you can also use the gammon stock for that soup or a mix of chicken and gammon.
Of course, you can also use it in salads or in pasta dishes.
Think of it as a substitute for pancetta or bacon too.
Also, you can freeze the stock to use from frozen.
I tend to freeze it in amounts I know I'll use, so either 400 ml or 800 ml for risotto as those are my key amounts.
The gammon broth is also perfect for freezing in ice cube trays, then pop the ice cubes out when frozen and store in bags to add favours (from frozen) to dishes.
Gammon / ham stock adds lovely flavour to dishes.
About the Air Fryer Lid
The Instant Pot Duo Crisp I used for the photos comes with a very cool (or hot) Air Fryer Lid. But so do my Ninja multi cookers so you're spoilt for choice. My Ninja 14 in 1 for example has the one lid for pressure cooking and air frying.
If you're on the market for one and are stuck with whether to choose Ninja or Instant Pot (whichever model), this comparison video might help you.
In most of these types of multi cookers, the cooker itself controls the air fryer lid so there are no added fiddly cables.
Could I cook Gammon Rice with chorizo instead?
Yes, in fact there is a dedicated recipe for this in the shape of our delicious Pressure Cooker Chorizo Risotto, make sure you give it a try too.
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Christine Dean says
Absolutely delicious!
Maria says
Thank you so much Chris! I'm so happy you liked it
Pip says
I'm an Instant Pot newbie and tried this for the first time with gammon and stock left over from your gammon recipe. It will be a firm favourite in this house. My husband said he was in 'food heaven', so thank you for the recipe 🙂
Maria says
This makes me soo happy Pip, thank you
Doreen Lamont says
Scrumptious. Exchanged the gammon for leftover spiced pork loin. Used white wine stock instead of gammon stock and red wine.
Danny says
This dish is delicious. The only struggle is to hold onto left over gammon from your gammon recipe one question though my instant pot/air fryer doesn’t have a broil option is it just the same as clicking air fry?
Maria says
Yes, air fry on max temperature will do the same. Or use "Grill" if there's that option. Hope that helps Danny
Caroline says
Finally had a useable ham stock after my Christmas ham had a couple of days soaking time before cooking it. I added sweetcorn and peas but this was delicious!