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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Moe says
Kept getting burn notice on rice with 6 qt IP and following directions exactly.
Moe says
Kept getting burn notice on rice with 6 qt IP and following directions exactly.
Moe says
Kept getting burn notice on rice with 6 qt IP and following directions exactly.
Barb B. says
After reading the comments, I decided not to sauté the onion. That’s usually when I get the Burn notice. I mixed everything up except for the chicken and put it in the bottom. I laid the chicken on top. There should have been enough liquid, but I still got 3 burn notices, so I greased a casserole dish and baked it in the oven. It was really good, and I’m sure I’ll make it often, but always in the oven.
Karen says
At what temp and how long in. The oven??
Barb B. says
After reading the comments, I decided not to sauté the onion. That’s usually when I get the Burn notice. I mixed everything up except for the chicken and put it in the bottom. I laid the chicken on top. There should have been enough liquid, but I still got 3 burn notices, so I greased a casserole dish and baked it in the oven. It was really good, and I’m sure I’ll make it often, but always in the oven.
Barb B. says
After reading the comments, I decided not to sauté the onion. That’s usually when I get the Burn notice. I mixed everything up except for the chicken and put it in the bottom. I laid the chicken on top. There should have been enough liquid, but I still got 3 burn notices, so I greased a casserole dish and baked it in the oven. It was really good, and I’m sure I’ll make it often, but always in the oven.
Megan says
Same. This sucks.
Megan says
Same. This sucks.
Evan says
I’ll add this in case it helps anyone else. I have a plus mini instant pot which is 3qts. So I halved the ingredients (just about) and I was getting that burn message as some others have. I did stir it once just to see and i noticed my rice sticking to the bottom. I then turned it back on. This time I just went ahead and ignored the burn message and let it cook. After the time, I stirred up the rice and noticed there was some browning on the bottom, but with all the liquid it picked right up as I stirred.
It ended up being fine and it all still tasted very good.
Cindy says
I’m ok with salsa, but not ready to try salsa verde (moving away from a very limiting diet). Would this work ok with salsa instead?
Danielle Green says
Yes!
Levi says
I got the burn warning, checked it and the rice was burning to the bottom. I added some chicken broth and tried again, got the burn warning again. I followed directions to the letter, am I doing something wrong, I am a rookie at this.
Mary Mattioni says
I think I figured out the burning problem. You must rinse the rice. I rinse it until the water runs clear. Basmati is the only rice I have used that didn’t burn. I used 14 oz chicken broth. I have a 6 qrt. Instant Pot Duo. One of our favorites!
Mary Mattioni says
I think I figured out the burning problem. You must rinse the rice. I rinse it until the water runs clear. Basmati is the only rice I have used that didn’t burn. I used 14 oz chicken broth. I have a 6 qrt. Instant Pot Duo. One of our favorites!
Mary Mattioni says
I think I figured out the burning problem. You must rinse the rice. I rinse it until the water runs clear. Basmati is the only rice I have used that didn’t burn. I used 14 oz chicken broth. I have a 6 qrt. Instant Pot Duo. One of our favorites!
Lavinia says
I made this tonight in my pressure cooker, minus the onions because my husband doesn’t eat onions. Otherwise followed the recipe as written. It was so easy and tasted so good! Thank you! So easy after working all day!
Paula Kerr says
I tried making the Salsa Verde Chicken and Rice in my Instapot. I followed the directions to a T. However, I used regular salsa – nothing special. I sauted the onion, turned the pot off, added all the other ingredients … initially 1 cup of chicken stock …. gave it a stir, and topped with the chicken breasts.
I set the pressure cooker for 10 minutes, and waited … it never started to count down, never got to full pressure, and shut off with a message BURN.
I turned it off, scraped the bottom and added another 1/2 cup of stock. Same thing happened.
I removed all the food from the pot and put it in a covered pan in the oven – hoping the rice would cook … I added more water.
Believe it or not …. I started all over – doing exactly the same thing … but this time started out with chicken stock just shy of 2 cups. Same thing. and BTW – I was using Basmati rice – both times. …. Please Help!!!
Danielle Green says
The only thing I can think of is that regular salsa has more sugar in it, so perhaps that led to it burning. Honestly, it seems as though some others have had issues with it not coming to pressure either and I’m not entirely sure seeing it always works for me and so many others. Sorry I can’t be more help!
Carina Beal says
I had the same problem.
Tim says
Our rice keeps burning. Any suggestions?
Anne says
Made it tonight. It’s really flavorful. I followed the directions directly. The rice did come out a bit mushy but I still enjoyed it. Maybe next time I’ll add just a little bit more rice so it’s not too mushy?
Anne says
Made it tonight. It’s really flavorful. I followed the directions directly. The rice did come out a bit mushy but I still enjoyed it. Maybe next time I’ll add just a little bit more rice so it’s not too mushy?
Anne says
Made it tonight. It’s really flavorful. I followed the directions directly. The rice did come out a bit mushy but I still enjoyed it. Maybe next time I’ll add just a little bit more rice so it’s not too mushy?