Recipe adapted from http://livingsweetmoments.com/instant-pot-orange-chicken/
Instant Pot Orange Chicken - this delicious instant pot chicken recipe is ready in 15 minutes or less and is perfect for a quick weeknight dinner idea.
Author Tiffany Bendayan
Ingredients
3 lbs Boneless skinless chicken cut into bitesized pieces
1/4 cup water
1/2 to 2/3 cup orange juice - about 2 or 3 oranges
zest of one orange
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup Tamari
2 Tablespoons ketchup
1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 cloves garlic minced
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
To thicken
2 Tablespoons organic cornstarch
3-4 tablespoons water
Green onions for garnish
Instructions
In a large bowl (or Instant Pot insert), mix the water, orange juice, soy sauce, ketchup, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, garlic, and ginger together
Place chicken in the bowl with the sauce and mix together. Add to Instant Pot.
Close the lid and pressure cook on high for 5 minutes
Release the pressure and press the sauté button.
To thicken sauce
In a small bowl mix water and cornstarch together
Add to the chicken
Cook for 1-2 minutes or until sauce thickens
Remove from pot and serve
OPTIONAL: Garnish with green onions
For this recipe on the first attempt, I also cooked rice before I cooked the chicken. Then I removed the rice from the pot, wiped out the Instant Pot insert and then cooked the chicken.
To cook sticky white rice, use a ratio of 1:1.5 rice to water. Cook on high pressure for 8 minutes.
Serving suggestion: stir fried veggies. Broccoli, carrots, cabbage, garlic, onion and green onion sautéd with sesame seed oil.
On the first attempt at making this, I used 1/2 orange juice. It just wasn't enough orange flavor so I have increased the amount as well as added orange zest.
