Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles is the best 30 minute Pressure Cooker recipe you will make! Lean chicken breasts are cooked in a homemade spicy Thai peanut sauce and finished off with rice noodles and peas for an easy and healthy one-pot meal made in your Instant Pot.
Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles
Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & NoodlesI’m not going to lie, I am quite proud of this recipe! It is so good on so many levels. The idea came to me after using my Instant Pot for a bit realizing that the extra liquid was always boiling after cooking the meat. I put that together with the fact that rice noodles are cooked by letting them set in boiling water as opposed to how traditional noodles are boiled.
That resulted in this Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles recipe where you cook the chicken in a thai peanut sauce, open your electric pressure cooker to add the noodles and peas and then cover it back up and leave it on the slow cooker mode.
Thai Peanut Pressure Cooker Recipe
The end result is the most tender and flavorful chicken with a rich Thai peanut sauce with just enough noodles for a healthy and semi low-carb recipe. The peanuts and peas are optional, but they add a nice crunch and color to the otherwise brown dish. This wholesome meal is something that you will not only feel good about eating, but you will keep coming back for more, because it tastes so good!
Healthy Chicken Pressure Cooker Recipe
While I love making simple roasts or chicken in my Instant Pot, it is fun and challenging for me to come up with complete one-pot meal. Whether I am cooking up Pressure Cooker Turkey Verde & Rice or this Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles, the electric pressure cooker is hard to beat in the convenience it provides as well as the tender fall apart meat it produces!
Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 c. Thai peanut sauce
- 3/4 c. chicken broth
- 5 oz. stir-fry rice noodles
- 1 c. sugar snap or snow peas
- optional garnishes – chopped peanuts red pepper flakes, green onions & cilantro
Instructions
- Turn your electric pressure cooker to sauté and lightly sauté the peas for 1-2 until just slightly cooked. Remove peas and set aside. Turn off of sauté.
- Add the chicken, Thai peanut sauce and broth to the pot. Cook on high pressure for 12 minutes.
- Release the steam by turning the nozzle and remove the chicken from pot, leaving the sauce. To the sauce, add the noodles and ensure all of the dry noodles are submerged in sauce. Top with the peas and replace the cover as quickly as possible. Change the settings to slow cooker (normal), and cook for 10 minutes or until the noodles are soft but firm.
- Meanwhile, shred the chicken breasts and set aside.
- Remove the lid of the pressure cooker and give the noodles a good stir. Add the chicken back to the pot with the noodles and stir. Serve warm.
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Coleen says
I doubled the broth and peanut sauce. This was so good! There were no left overs.
Craig Bennett says
So I had success with modifying this recipe according to some of the comments made already but I also changed a few more things.
I added mushrooms and water chestnuts to add more variety to the dish and kept it in line with the thai style.
I cut up the chicken instead of shredding.
I sautéed initially per the recipe but then added everything after this point and used the high pressure cook setting for 15 minutes. I did not add noodles at this stage. And I should have added the snap peas just yet.
Next I added noodles on top and used the high pressure cook for 4 minutes. This mostly worked though a small portion of the noodles needing soaking longer so I slow cooker a little longer. I’d just mix in the noodles next time instead of leaking on top.
So I think this version turned out really well for me. I liked the extra ingredients and I preferred the high cook pressure setting too.
Gina says
Maybe the thai peanut sauce I bought was the problem but I thought the taste was horrible. Also, 1 cup of snap peas are nowhere near enough and the suggested amount of chicken broth wasn’t enough. I had to doctor this up with some brown sugar to lose the bitterness. Definitely would benefit from some bamboo shoots or carrot or something.
Marissa says
The taste of this is amazing! Chicken was cooked perfectly and shredded easily. The sauce is delicious. However, the noodles were nowhere near cooked enough, even with additional time pressure cooking and adding more broth. I will make this again, but I plan on cooking the noodles separately according to package instructions and adding it all together at the end.