Easy One Pot Shrimp and Rice Instant Pot
From shrimp etouffee to shrimp curry, and classic shrimp scampi to chipotle shrimp soup, this collection of spicy, flavorful, and easy Instant Pot shrimp recipes are must-tries for your Instant Pot pressure cooker.
The Instant Pot is so convenient for all kinds of foods, especially proteins. But most people tend to stick to meats and shy away from cooking seafood in the Instant Pot.
If you thought you couldn't successfully cook shrimp in the Instant Pot, think again. You absolutely can cook raw shrimp perfectly in the Instant Pot.
Shrimp is one of my favorite ingredients! I've put together a collection of my favorite Instant Pot shrimp recipes and I've also included some popular recipes from other bloggers.
Most of these easy Instant Pot recipes for shrimp can be made on a weeknight with little fuss. Any of these recipes would make a delicious meal.
Tips For How to Cook Shrimp in the Instant Pot
Pressure Level
- Low pressure is a great option if your pressure cooker has that setting available. Cooking shrimp at low pressure keeps it from overcooking. Pressure cooking time varies from 1 to 4 minutes.
- High pressure is a bit faster and it's available on all Instant Pots. Pressure cooking time varies from 0 to 2 minutes.
Pressure Release
- Once the shrimp is done cooking, release pressure using the quick release method. Since shrimp cooks very fast, using natural release will cause it to overcook and be tough. Read more about the different pressure release methods.
Residual Heat
One of my favorite ways to cook shrimp in the Instant Pot is to use residual heat. For example, if I'm cooking shrimp with rice, I cook the rice and release pressure using the quick release method. Then I add the shrimp into the rice and close the lid.
Here are the steps to cook shrimp with the residual heat:
- Pressure cook recipe without the shrimp (e.g. rice, pasta, sauce, etc).
- Once the cook time is up, release pressure using the quick release method.
- Open the lid and add thawed shrimp. (Work quickly and don't let too much steam escape).
- Close the lid for 10 minutes. The shrimp will cook with the heat already in the Instant Pot. If you have trouble closing the lid, place the steam release handle in the Venting position, close the lid, and put the steam release back to Sealing position.
Note: you can't use frozen shrimp with this method because the shrimp won't cook through. Fresh shrimp or thawed frozen shrimp will both work. If using jumbo shrimp, you might need to increase the time by about 5 minutes.
How to Substitute Frozen Shrimp in Recipes
Pressure-Cooked Shrimp Recipes
If you're using a recipe that calls for thawed shrimp to be pressure-cooked, you can substitute frozen shrimp and follow the recipe's original pressure cooking time.
Keep in mind that the Instant Pot will take longer to come to pressure since the contents will take longer to heat up. Also, make sure that the frozen shrimp is not in one big clump!
Instant Pot Shrimp Recipes using Residual Heat
If you're using a recipe that calls for cooking the shrimp in residual heat (like most of my recipes), you'll need to thaw the shrimp because substituting frozen shrimp could result in undercooked shrimp.
Instant Pot Shrimp Soups and Stews
These soups and stew recipes are comforting and hearty. These easy recipes will warm you up on a cold winter night. Use shrimp stock instead of chicken stock in seafood recipes.
1. Instant Pot Shrimp Stock (Seafood Stock)
The Instant Pot is a great hands-off and easy way to make shrimp stock or seafood stock. Use the stock for soups, stews, or any seafood dish including Cajun and Creole dishes like étouffée, whether made in the Instant Pot or not.
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2. Creamy Instant Pot Chipotle Shrimp Soup
Creamy Instant Pot Chipotle Shrimp Soup is a quick and easy soup recipe perfect for a busy weekday. It's loaded with potatoes, corn, bacon and shrimp, finished with cream and gets a spicy kick from Chipotle chilies.
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3. Instant Pot Shrimp and Lentil Stew
This healthy gumbo-like Instant Pot Shrimp and Lentil Stew pack a powerful flavor with spices such as cayenne pepper and Old Bay seasoning mixed together. It can be made in under 15 minutes and tastes even better the next day as leftovers.
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4. Instant Pot Seafood Chowder
Instant Pot Seafood Chowder is the ultimate seafood-lovers meal. Packed with whitefish, baby shrimp, crab meat, scallops and fresh lobster meat, this creamy chowder is delicious anytime of the year. It's a versatile chowder that can be made with your favorite seafood or as the recipe is written.
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Instant Pot Shrimp Pasta Recipes
Making pasta in the Instant Pot is one of my favorite things about using the Instant Pot. These one-pot pasta dishes are simple recipes that are an easy way to feed a large group.
Serve these pasta recipes with garlic bread and a green salad to make it a substantial meal. Sprinkle some fresh parmesan cheese and chopped fresh parsley to complete the recipes.
5. Instant Pot Shrimp Pasta with Garlic
Instant Pot Shrimp Pasta with Garlic is an easy one-pot meal that is perfect for a quick dinner idea. The angel hair pasta, shrimp, garlic and all the ingredients are cooked in the Instant Pot together. Make the recipe spicy by adding some extra crushed red pepper!
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6. Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi
Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi pasta is a simple dish cooked in a wonderful buttery garlic white wine sauce. Make this a quick one-pot dinner from frozen by adding some pasta to complete the meal in under 30-minutes! Enjoy a restaurant quality dish for a weeknight meal or impress your friends at your next dinner party. Old Bay seasoning and red pepper flakes add an extra kick to this delicious shrimp recipe.
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7. One-Pot Shrimp Alfredo Pasta
This easy Instant Pot Shrimp Alfredo cooks the homemade parmesan-cream sauce and pasta in the same pot! Make dinner from scratch in under 30 minutes!
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8. Creamy Instant Pot Shrimp Alfredo with Spaghetti
Looking for a quick and easy one-pot seafood recipe? Then look no further than this creamy and comforting Instant Pot Shrimp Alfredo recipe. This delicious Instant Pot shrimp pasta is ready in just minutes and requires almost no effort at all to make. Post includes Weight Watchers points.
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9. Instant Pot Bang Bang Shrimp
Instant Pot bang bang shrimp pasta is the best one pot meal your family will love. Made with a sweet and spicy killer sauce. Tender bites of seafood with noodles will be your next favorite pressure cooker meal.
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10. Instant Pot Cajun Shrimp Alfredo
This easy to make Instant Pot Cajun Shrimp Alfredo is loaded with flavor. Perfectly cooked pasta with a creamy Cajun Alfredo sauce and lots of Cajun sausage and shrimp make this a hearty and delicious pressure cooker pasta dish. This one is perfect for busy weeknights when you need dinner on the table fast. Enjoy it with a side salad and fresh crusty bread.
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11. Low Carb Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi
Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi recipe is relatively high in protein and fat, and low in carbs but also family-friendly and tasty. The recipe is quick to make. The recipe also tastes great with zucchini noodles.
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12. Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi with Linguine
Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi is buttery, garlicky and lemony with tender linguine and succulent shrimp! It's ready in less than 30 minutes so it's quick enough for busy weeknights and special enough for date nights. This shrimp scampi one pot meal comes together with very little effort in the pressure cooker. It tastes like restaurant quality shrimp scampi but it couldn't be easier to make.
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Spicy Instant Pot Shrimp Recipes
I love combining spice with shrimp. In addition to Cajun and Creole recipes, there are Southern recipes like shrimp and grits that are spicy and full of flavor.
13. Instant Pot Shrimp Etouffee
This Instant Pot Shrimp Étouffée is a classic New Orleans recipe made with Creole spices and plenty of shrimp in a spicy tomato-based sauce. This rich and delicious stew tastes great over rice. This recipe is perfect for Mardi Gras but is so easy that you could make a regular weekday meal extra special. [Stovetop instructions also included.]
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14. Instant Pot Gumbo
This Delicious Instant Pot Louisiana Gumbo is a quintessential New Orleans dish that is hearty, satisfying, flavorful and perfect for a crowd. Made with chicken, sausage and shrimp, it tastes amazing when served over rice.
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15. Instant Pot Shrimp and Grits
Instant Pot Shrimp and Grits is a delightful one-pot meal. Tender shrimp and crisp bacon in a spicy tomato sauce combine with creamy grits to create a delicious fusion of flavors.
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16. Instant Pot Spicy Cajun Shrimp
Cajun Instant Pot shrimp pressure cooked in zero minutes! This meal is so quick to make as it's ready in 20 minutes from start to finish. Perfect for busy mid-week dinners, and meal prep.
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17. Spicy Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi with Lemon, Tomatoes, and Arugula
This Spicy Instant Pot Shrimp Scampi with Lemon, Tomatoes, and Arugula is ready in less than 30 minutes and is the perfect meal to jazz up your weeknights.
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18. Instant Pot Low Country Shrimp Boil
Instant Pot Low Country Shrimp Boil is a fun and super easy meal to make! Potatoes, sausage, corn and shrimp cooked together with seafood seasoning and Cajun spices. This easy Instant Pot shrimp boil recipe is ready in a little over an hour total! Dump it on the table and dig in!
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19. Instant Pot Shrimp Fajitas
Make these super easy Instant Pot Shrimp Fajitas for a quick dinner on a mid-week night. It's a dump and start recipe, and ready in just 15 minutes.
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Indian Instant Pot Shrimp Curry Recipes
These delicious Indian curries are packed with flavor and taste amazing with rice! The Indian spices combined with creamy coconut and delectable shrimp will have everyone going for seconds.
20. Instant Pot Coconut Shrimp Curry
Easy and Flavorful Coconut Shrimp Curry made in the Pressure Cooker in just 20 minutes. This is the simple Indian shrimp curry made with ginger, garlic, onions, tomatoes along with flavorful spices, and finished with coconut milk. Pair this curry with rice for a perfect experience. It's also great for gluten-free, paleo and low carb diets!
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21. Instant Pot Shrimp Curry
A different variation of shrimp curry with whole cinnamon and cardamom. This vibrant Instant Pot shrimp curry has tender-sweet shrimp that is lightly spiced with aromatic whole spices and has tropical flavors from coconut milk.
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Instant Pot Shrimp and Rice Recipes
Combining rice and shrimp together in the Instant Pot makes these meal-in-one recipes very convenient. These crowd-pleasing favorite recipes are a must-try for your Instant Pot.
22. Instant Pot Jambalaya
This Instant Pot Jambalaya was adapted from an authentic Creole Jambalaya recipe and has andouille sausage, chicken and shrimp combined with rice, is flavored with Cajun spices and cooked to perfection.
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23. Instant Pot Shrimp Biryani
Shrimp Biryani is a spicy, delicate, and full-flavored meal, made with fragrant basmati rice and shrimp! The warm flavors of fresh spices, turmeric, red chili powder and the sweetness from onions cooked in ghee make this an ultimate dish for lunch or dinner!
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24. Instant Pot Shrimp Paella
This tasty Instant Pot Shrimp Paella is colorful and so easy to make. The recipe calls for frozen shrimp. How much easier can things get?
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25. Pressure Cooker Shrimp Scampi Paella
This 5 Minute Pressure Cooker Shrimp Scampi Paella is the perfect example of how you can take a basic technique (like cooking rice) and layer in flavors to make a one pot meal once you become comfortable with the fundamentals of pressure cooking.
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How to Steam Instant Pot Shrimp
There are times when you just want plain shrimp that can be used in a salad or as an appetizer with cocktail sauce. For extra flavor, brine the shrimp for an hour by soaking the shrimp in 2 cups of water mixed with a tablespoon of salt. Rinse the shrimp before steaming.
Instant Pot Shrimp
If you'd like to serve shrimp with cocktail sauce as an appetizer, or if you want to make simple steamed shrimp, here's how to cookfrozenlarge shrimp. Read the blog post for many more shrimp recipes.
- 1.5 cups water
- 1 lb. frozen shrimp
- 2 tsp Old Bay seasoning or to taste
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Add water to the inner pot of the Instant Pot.
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Place a steamer basket in the inner pot.
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Add the shrimp to the steamer basket, and make sure you separate them so they aren't in one big clump.
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Close the lid and pressure cook for 3 minutes * atLOWpressure. (If you are using jumbo shrimp, you might need to change the frozen shrimp time to 4 minutes.)
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Once pressure cooking is complete, do a quick release of pressure (QR). Open the lid.[ Read More: The Different Pressure Release Methods ]
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Carefully remove the steamer basket using silicone mitts.
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Sprinkle Old Bay seasoning or your choice of seasoning on the shrimp and toss to coat.
- For thawed shrimp, reduce pressure cooking time to zero minutes. Some Instant Pots don't have zero minute as an option. Set the time to 1 minute and as soon as the display goes from On to 00:01, press Cancel.
- See the blog post for more Instant Pot shrimp recipes.
Serving: 0.25 lb. | Calories: 133 kcal | Protein: 28 g | Fat: 2 g | Cholesterol: 227 mg | Sodium: 944 mg
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