Pressure Cooker Salsa Verde Chicken & Rice is a quick and easy dinner recipe made in your Instant Pot in less than 30 minutes! Zesty rice is topped with cheesy chicken breasts for a one-pot meal the whole family will love.
Pressure Cooker Salsa Verde Chicken & Rice
If you already own an Instant Pot, you know just how great they are for easy set it and forget it meals. These 10 Healthy Chicken Recipes in a Pressure Cooker are a great collection of dinner ideas when you have a lot of chicken to use up.
Sometimes you want the whole meal deal in one swoop those and that is why this Pressure Cooker Salsa Verde Chicken & Rice is so great!
You don’ need to make anything outside of the Instant Pot or prepare any extras for the dish. Simply saute your onions in the Pressure Cooker and add the remaining ingredients. Set it and forget it and you will come back to a hearty and delicious dinner that the whole family will want again and again!
If you love a creamy dish, a big dollop of sour cream is a great addition to the meal when you are serving it up. It also makes for fantastic leftovers for lunch the next day!
Another great alternative for this Pressure Cooker Salsa Verde Chicken & Rice is to shred the chicken and stir it in with the rice. Chicken in the Instant Pot is the best when shredded because it just falls apart. The presentation might not be as pretty, but it is sure to taste just as good.
Pressure Cooker Salsa Verde Chicken & Rice
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion diced
- 1 c. chicken broth
- 1 16 oz jar salsa verde
- 1 1/2 tsp. cumin
- 1 c. long grain white rice I used Basmati
- 20 oz. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 4 oz. shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Add the olive oil to your 5 or 6 quart electric pressure cooker and turn on to saute function. When the pot is heated, add the diced onion. Saute for 3 minutes, or until translucent.
- Add the chicken broth to the onions and using a wooden spoon scrape the browned bits off of the bottom so they don’t burn during cooking. Turn the pressure cooker off of saute function.
- Add the salsa verde, cumin and rice. Do NOT stir in the rice. Nestle the chicken breasts on top of the rice mixture. Sprinkle with salt.
- Place the lid on the pressure cooker and cook on high pressure for 10 minutes with a 10 minute natural pressure release. (When the 10 minutes is completed cooking, let the pot sit for 10 more minutes until you release the pressure manually.)
- Remove the chicken from the pot and fluff the rice. Place the chicken back on top of the rice and top with the shredded cheddar.
- Place the lid back on the pressure cooker and let sit for 3-4 minutes, or until the cheese is melted from the heat of the pot.
- Serve immediately.
- *Optionally top with sour cream and cilantro.
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Cort Baker says
I tried this recipe and got stopped by food burn errors multiple times
Mylie A Beeson says
I’ve been enjoying this recipe for years now. If you put the defrosted chicken in the instapot or pressure cooker first then add the rice and liquid it works and spices it works. Might want to tweak the recipe in case. This was in the comments that I read a few years back.
Des says
It smells great.. if I could get it to cook. Everyone is hungry and the rice burnt to the bottom of the pain within the first couple of minutes and food burn alert has continually halted cooking time. I chose this for my first instapot recipe and I’m extremely hungry.. and disappointed. Wouldn’t recommend.
Des says
It smells great.. if I could get it to cook. Everyone is hungry and the rice burnt to the bottom of the pain within the first couple of minutes and food burn alert has continually halted cooking time. I chose this for my first instapot recipe and I’m extremely hungry.. and disappointed. Wouldn’t recommend.
Ae says
You are not supposed to stir ingredients when using an instant pot. Water and proteins go on the bottom, veggies and other ingredients on top. At least 1 cup and a half of liquid, and don’t stir until it is done. Never have a “BURN” again.