15 Minute Instant Pot Salsa Verde Chicken is easy to make, full of delicious spicy flavor, and healthy! It is great as an entree or on tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and over rice. This Mexican chicken dish is also paleo friendly, low carb, and gluten free. You will love this tasty dish.
"This recipe was packed with flavor! I was honestly surprised. The balance of seasonings and a good verde took this up a notch. Shredding the chicken in the pot and soaking up all that flavor was key. We did not add additional salsa because the flavors were already amazing. We used this chicken with cilantro lime rice, black beans, a Mexican corn salad, bell pepper, and avocado. Thanks for sharing!"
★★★★★- Hilary
This week, I have been doing a bit of meal prep. I have been making a bunch of meals for my husband to take to work every day. I also have made some meals I keep in the freezer to grab for the days I don't have time to cook. This has kept us from going out to eat for an unplanned dinner.
Instant Pot Salsa Verde Chicken is PERFECT for meal prep! It tastes amazing the minute is finished cooking or reheated from being frozen! I use it on rice, tacos, and salad. Try it. You'll love it too! Xoxo -Katie.
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Ingredient notes and substitutions
You will need the following ingredients:
- chicken breasts-You can substitute with skinless, boneless chicken thighs. Turkey breast would also be delicious.
- Goya Salsa Verde or my homemade Salsa Verde
- chili powder
- cumin
- smoked paprika- You can substitute with sweet/Hungarian paprika.
- jalapeno- You can omit this if you are avoiding spicy heat.
- onion- White or yellow onion.
- cilantro
- lime
Tomatillo Salsa verde note
To keep things simple, you can use the jarred salsa verde. However, if you want to make everything from scratch, you can make the homemade tomatillo salsa verde in this Instant Pot salsa verde chicken recipe!
Steps to make
Follow these easy steps to make salsa verde chicken in the Instant Pot
- Add half of salsa verde in Instant Pot.
- Top with spices.
- Add jalapeño, cilantro, and onion.
- Top with chicken breasts.
- Save ¼ cup of salsa verde and pour remaining salsa Cook chicken on high manual pressure for 10 minutes. Naturally release when done. Shred chicken in Instant Pot to allow the chicken to absorb the liquids.Add remaining salsa verde.
- Add lime juice. Mix well.
Thickening Tip
Tip: Most of the sauce should be absorbed back into the meat.If it needs to thicken, use Sauté setting for about 3 minutes.
Please leave me a comment below if you make this salsa verde chicken and tell me what you thought about it. I would love to hear back, and so would my readers.
Also post your picture of your chicken on Instagram or Facebook, and tag @aforkstale with #aforkstale hashtags! I will share with my followers! xoxo!
📖 Recipe
15 Minute Instant Pot Salsa Verde Chicken Breast Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 pounds chicken breasts
- 17.6 ounce Goya Salsa Verde Or your favorite Salsa Verde Jar
- 1 ½ teaspoon chili powder
- 1 ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 jalapeño diced
- ½ onion diced
- ¼ cup fresh cilantro chopped
- 1 lime
Instructions
- Add half jar of salsa verde in Instant Pot.17.6 ounce Goya Salsa Verde
- Top with chili powder, smoked paprika, cumin, salt, and pepper.1 ½ teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon smoked paprika, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, 1 ½ teaspoon cumin
- Add diced jalapeño, chopped cilantro, and onion diced.1 jalapeño, ¼ cup fresh cilantro, ½ onion
- Top with chicken breasts.2 pounds chicken breasts
- Save ¼ cup of salsa verde and pour remaining on chicken.
- Cook chicken on high manual pressure for 10 minutes. Naturally release when done.
- Shred chicken in Instant Pot to allow the chicken to absorb the liquids.
- Add remaining salsa verde and juice of 1 lime. Mix well.1 lime
Hilary says
This recipe was packed with flavor! I was honestly surprised. The balance of seasonings and a good verde took this up a notch. Shredding the chicken in the pot and soaking up all that flavor was key. We did not add additional salsa because the flavors were already amazing. We used this chicken with cilantro lime rice, black beans, a Mexican corn salad, bell pepper, and avocado. Thanks for sharing!
Ceb says
I love instant pot recipes, this salsa verde is unique and interesting looks delicious.
Rochelle says
This was the best salsa verde recipe I have found. Thanks for sharing!
Cathy says
I just got an Instant Pot for Christmas and this is the first recipe I made in it. It was fantastic!!! I used the Chi Chi's mild verde and put most of a vidalia onion and 3 cloves of garlic in with it - the onion and garlic disappeared into the sauce and the chicken was so tender and easy to shred. We are having a couple of sour cream/cream cheese based dips tonight for New Year's so I wanted something tangy to go with them. We will DEFINITELY make this again. Thanks for the recipe!
Karen White says
Excellent! Made this last night with frozen chicken, my 2nd IP meal, and my husband couldn't stop saying how this was the best chili verde he's ever had! And he has had a lot of chili verde from everywhere. I did have a problem with my IP coming to pressure so I popped off my gasket and started it again. Over cooked the chicken a bit but it still was so good! Thank you!!
Karen White says
By the way I did use Goya salsa verde which I think is the key along with the smoke paprika!
Elaine @ Dishes Delish says
Holy moly! This chicken salsa verde looks so incredibly delicious that I want it for lunch!! Mmmmm.
karrie @ Tasty Ever After says
I love my instant pot too! Of course, I won't have one if you didn't convince me to buy one 😉 Love salsa verde chicken and love that I can make it in my IP. Gonna make this and put it in some tacos tonight 🙂