Cook this Instant Pot Orange Chicken Recipe in 15 minutes! It is an easy, delicious meal that your whole family will love.
The Orange Chicken Dish at the Asian Restaurants is so yummy. What if you can make it at home in 15 minutes? You read that right!
You can cook this easy, delicious Instant Pot Orange Chicken in 15 minutes.
It will taste so good, you will want to double the recipe to save for leftovers the next day.
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I have been so excited to have my Instant Pot, I have been cooking away! I have been cooking things like Instant Pot Italian Beef Dinner and Instant Pot Shredded Buffalo ChickenIt has been so fun coming up with recipes and figuring out what works and doesn’t. Let me tell you! This recipe works! My husband couldn’t believe how delicious it is.
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After I started cooking my brown rice in my Panasonic SR-MS103 5-Cup (Uncooked) Rice Cooker, White
If you have never had Orange Chicken, it is sweet and salty with bites of orange flavor…. And it is GOOD!!!!!!
I served it over a bed of brown rice with a side of steamed broccoli. BAM! Magic in the kitchen. It was all gone in minutes. That is why I suggest you double the recipe if you make this. You will want leftovers the next day!
Try it for yourself. You will love it. You will laugh at how easy it is to make. But you can tell your family you cooked all day in the kitchen making this. If you don’t tell, I won’t! xoxo
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- 4 chicken breasts (Do not use thin breasts. They will dry out.)
- ¾ cup favorite dark, sweet barbecue sauce
- 2 tbs soy sauce
- ¾ cup orange marmalade
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- chopped green onions for garnish
- Chop chicken breasts into hearty bite size chunks.
- In Instant Pot, add in chopped chicken, barbecue sauce, and soy sauce.
- Cook on manual high for 4 min.
- When done, fast release steam.
- Take ¼ cup of the barbecue chicken sauce out of instant pot and mix with cornstarch in a small bowl. (This prevents lumps. Cornstarch will thicken sauce.)
- Add cornstarch broth mixture back into Instant Pot.
- Add orange marmalade. Mix well.
- Change setting on Instant Pot to sauté setting and sauté for 6 min.
- Allow it to rest 5 minutes before serving.
- Garnish with green onions. Serve over rice, noodles or by itself.
I’m totally trying this in my Instant pot! I’ll let you know how it turns out 🙂 Hubby will love it because Chinese food is his favorite.
I can’t believe it only took 15 minutes! This looks so amazing! Orange chicken is one of our favorites and getting it done in 15 minutes makes it doable for a week night meal!
Quick and mouth-watering dish, Katie! I love it!
I’ve never used an instant pot before but I love the idea of this being done in 15 minutes! Thanks for sharing!!
Yum yum yum. This was so easy! I even cooked the rice in the cooker and did up dishes while the cooker took care of it for me. Easy schmeezy. My son has had 2 huge helpings and has thanked me every about 15 times for this meal.
could you start off with frozen chicken? if so, how long would you cook it?
I honestly don’t know. I have seen other bloggers use frozen chicken in some of their recipes and they say it works. I would defrost it if it were me….. but it might work. I am just not sure on the time adjustments because I have never cooked a frozen thing in the instant pot.
Yes you can cook frozen just make sure the chicken isn’t attached to each other
I’m surprised this didn’t scorch on the bottom – it seems rather thick! With that said… I have all the ingredients AND my son’s been begging for orange chicken :). Giving it a go!
Did it work without adding water? I was thinking it would scorch, too.
I have made it several times and it did not scorch. It is cooked too fast to scorch. If you add water it will be too watery….
I’m an Instant Pot newbie, I’ve made it with the single serve and LOVE IT! – when doubling, how would you adjust cook time?
I have never doubled it, so I am not sure, but I think you could keep the same time. You just may need to saute it a bit longer.
First time with my Instant Pot. Can I cook the rice in it then make this recipe and leave the rice in it?? If that makes sense?
Not for this recipe. You would have to cook the rice separate. There are recipes where you can cook the whole meal with the rice, but it would not work in this recipe. Sorry.
I’m a newbie and I struggled with this. I wasn’t sure whether to use manual or poultry. Then, was I supposed to leave lid Off for sautee? What do you do? Thanks!
Hi Daiana,
Yes, start off with manual pressure on high. Then after 4 minutes, fast release the steam. The remaining directions would be under saute setting. You would just saute until sauce thickens.
I made this tonight and was cautious if it would really taste all that great. I halved the recipe since there are only 2 of us. We loved it! Next time I will use the full ingredients for the sauce. I did add a bit more marmalade and soy sauce because I thought it smelled to much bbq.
Thank you for sharing.
Accidentally added the orange marmalade with the soy sauce, bbq sauce, and chicken. Oops! I’m sure it’ll turn out okay though, and I should add that it’s smelling delicious in here as the IP comes to pressure!
I have rice frozen in a baggie in the freezer. I’ll take that out and heat some of it up while the IP is on saute after the 4 minutes!