Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup
The Best Instant Pot Chicken Wild Rice Soup
I sometimes feel like there are two kinds of dinner recipes: family meals and company meals.
Family meals are the kind you serve when it’s just you and the family around the dinner table. You don’t want anything fancy, just tasty comfort food like my Comforting Beefy Noodle Casserole or good old-fashioned chicken noodle soup.
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But for a company dinner, you want to serve something special that looks like you made an effort. It doesn’t have to be actually hard to make, it just has to look that way – like my Easy Crockpot Beef Burgundy or Instant Pot Parmesan Garlic Artichokes.
There are only a few special recipes that can do both jobs. They’re elegant enough to serve to company, but also cozy enough to enjoy with your family.
This Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup is one of them. It’s got the kind of classy ingredients you’d expect in a company meal, like wild rice, mushrooms, celery, and a buttery roux. But at the same time, it’s essentially a cozy chicken soup – the comfort food we all know and love.
Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup
Printable recipe directions and ingredients at bottom of post.
DIRECTIONS:
- Place onions, carrots, celery, mushrooms, rice, chicken, garlic, parsly, mrs. dash, bay leaves, broth, water salt and pepper into the instant pot.
- Cover and cook on soup setting (or high pressure) for 35 minutes. When time is up do quick release. While steam is release, prepare the roux.
- To make the roux (soup thickener), in a small sauce pan, melt butter over a medium beat. Once melted, whisk in flour. once butter and flour are well combined, slowly whisk in half and half. Once the sauce thickens (about 2-3 minutes) remove from heat.
- Once pressure has released, open and remove the chicken, shred it using two forks, and add it back into the instant pot.
- Stir the prepared roux into the instant pot and let sit for 5-7 minutes before serving. And adjust salt and pepper as desired. Served with crusty bread 🙂
Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup
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Ingredients
- 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup carrots sliced
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 8 ounces mushrooms diced
- 1 cup uncooked wild rice rinsed
- 6 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash’s original seasoning or any no sodium multipurpose seasoning
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 5 tablespoons salted butter
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups half and half
Instructions
- Place onions, carrots, celery, mushrooms, rice, chicken, garlic, parsly, mrs. dash, bay leaves, broth, water salt and pepper into the instant pot.
- Cover and cook on soup setting (or high pressure) for 35 minutes. When time is up do quick release. While steam is release, prepare the roux.
- To make the roux (soup thickener), in a small sauce pan, melt butter over a medium beat. Once melted, whisk in flour. once butter and flour are well combined, slowly whisk in half and half. Once the sauce thickens (about 2-3 minutes) remove from heat.
- Once pressure has released, open and remove the chicken, shred it using two forks, and add it back into the instant pot.
- Stir the prepared roux into the instant pot and let sit for 5-7 minutes before serving. And adjust salt and pepper as desired.
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Nutrition
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Doubled the batch and used turkey and homemade turkey broth instead. Cut the amount of roux in half so not super creamy. Next time, will cut the Mrs. Dash in half. A little too powerful.
So good. We make it on a regular basis