Jasmine white rice (long grain), washed fully, toasted in my Instant Pot on sauté on high (no medium option) in vegetable oil for over 10 minutes but still didn't have very browned rice. Moved on to the next steps because it was later in the evening than I intended and we were hungry! Used a can of diced tomatoes instead of the recommended fresh tomato and doubled the tomato paste for fun. Skipped frozen peas. This came out pretty nicely but next time I would reduce the chicken stock by at least 1/2 cup-flavor was great but this was a little too wet. I would probably also add at least some ground pepper-crushed red pepper?-next time because it was flavorful but missing something that wasn’t easy to pinpoint.

These came out so fantastically, I am very impressed. I stuck to the recipe except I didn’t have any jalapeño on hand. After I used my immersion blender to purée about half the beans post-pressure cook (did not need the additional 2 cups of bean liquid-only added back about 1/4 c maximum), I mixed the puréed and partially intact beans to check the overall texture and taste tested. I added 1/2 tsp of salt and that brought the flavor exactly to where I wanted it. Really excited about these and looking forward to making and eating more!

Used jasmine white rice, subbed in coconut options for the dairy (coconut evaporated milk, coconut sweetened condensed milk, coconut cream instead of heavy whipping cream). Used canela cinnamon sticks as recommended in the rice/cinnamon stick/water soak but added some Diaspora ground cinnamon at the end to bring up the flavor. Used my vanilla bean simple syrup instead of granulated sugar/vanilla extract listed in the ingredients (2 oz by weight instead of 1/3 cup).
Came out very nice for being coconut milks (untested by original recipe)! I will probably switch to common cinnamon sticks or at least half and half since the cinnamon flavor is not quite what I want even after adding the ground cinnamon at the end. Going to try a different rice option next time, my taste tester says it isn’t “ricey enough”.