Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
Anyone who reads this site regularly knows there are two things that I absolutely love. The first is my new Instant Pot. I’ve only had it about a year, but I’ve already used it to make shredded chicken, beef stew, steamed artichokes, and a bunch of pasta dishes – and the list just keeps growing.
The other thing I really love is honey garlic sauce. I use it for meatballs, cocktail weenies, shrimp lo mein…even carrots. No matter what you put it on, it’s delicious.
So it was only a matter of time before I decided to put these two wonderful things together. And sure enough, wonderful plus wonderful adds up to REALLY wonderful. This Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken is a Chinese-style dish bursting with honey-garlic flavor. And because you make it in the Instant Pot, it’s also really quick to make.
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Step one, mix up the sauce, pour it over the meat, and cook for 20 minutes. Step two, take out the meat and thicken the sauce. And step three, cut up the meat and toss it with the sauce. Boom, done. Served over rice with a sprinkling of sesame seeds and green onions, it’s a super-flavorful Chinese meal that takes less time than ordering takeout.
Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
Ingredients:
3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup onion, diced
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 garlic cloves, minced
3 teaspoons cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup water
Sesame seeds & green onion for topping
Rice for serving
Directions:
1. Start by placing your chicken in the bottom of the Instant Pot. Season well with salt and pepper.
2. In a small bowl, combine honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, and garlic. Pour the mixture over chicken and put your Instant Pot Lid on and set to seal.
3. Cook on the Meat setting (or on HIGH pressure for non IP) for 15 minutes and then quick release once the 15 minutes is up. Remove chicken from pot, leave the sauce in the pot.
4. Dissolve 3 teaspoons of cornstarch in 1/4 cup of water in a small bowl and pour into your Instant Pot. Stir to combine with sauce. Push the Saute button and cook sauce for about 5 minutes or until slightly thickened.
5. Cut the chicken into bite size pieces, then return to pot and toss with sauce before serving. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions, and serve over rice.
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Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
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Ingredients
- 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup onion, diced
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 teaspoons cornstarch dissolved in 1/4 cup water
- Sesame seeds & green onion for topping
- Rice for serving
Instructions
- Start by placing your chicken in the bottom of the Instant Pot. Season well with salt and pepper.
- In a small bowl, combine honey, soy sauce, onion, ketchup, oil, and garlic. Pour the mixture over chicken and put your Instant Pot Lid on and set to seal.
- Cook on the Meat setting (or on HIGH pressure for non IP) for 15 minutes and then quick release once the 15 minutes is up. Remove chicken from pot, leave the sauce in the pot.
- Dissolve 3 teaspoons of cornstarch in 1/4 cup of water in a small bowl and pour into your Instant Pot. Stir to combine with sauce. Push the Saute button and cook sauce for about 5 minutes or until slightly thickened.
- Cut the chicken into bite size pieces, then return to pot and toss with sauce before serving. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions, and serve over rice.
Nutrition
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I made this recipe last night and my husband and I really enjoyed it. I used approx. 5 cut up chicken breasts, I followed the recipe with the addition of some fresh ginger, chili flakes and steak spice, to give it a bit of a kick.
I also add approx. 1/2 cup of chicken broth, and a Chicken OxO packet, to give it some depth of flavor.
I cooked some Chinese noodles separately, then stirred them in after my IP naturally released.
I have an IP Viva – 6 Qt. took approx. 19 mins to pressurize, and 23 mins to do a natural release.
I made this recipe it was awesome and so easy and quick ….. I will make it again for sure!
I am an instant pot newbie.!! This recipe was my third try. the first two were not very successful …but this one was very good and easy!! My only concern is when I did the quick release brown liquid came out of the valve shooting toward my ceiling… my instant pot is brand new and clean especially since this was my third time using it. any suggestions on how to avoid that the next time would be helpful thank you
This was so good! My daughter 15 is so picky and loved it! I only added a 1/2 tablespoon of crushed red pepper but stuck to everything else and it was super yummy! Thank you
I made this a couple nights ago and it turned out wonderful minus one small thing, the chicken turned into shredded chicken so chopping it up was impossible. I HIGHLY recommend if your looking for chunks of chicken to chop it up before cooking. I even cooked it for 12 minutes as recommended by other reviewers. The sauce was amazing though and my boyfriend who HATES ketchup ate it without knowing there was ketchup in it at all 😈 I did use 1 TBSP of sesame oil and 1 TBSP of vegetable oil for more flavor. I will definitely be making this one again.