Recipe: Simple Orange Chicken - Instant Pot

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Orange Chicken - Instant Pot. The Best Instant Pot Orange Chicken. Forget about takeout, this easy Chinese dinner made with easy to find ingredients is so good that it will become a staple in your house. This Easy Instant Pot Orange Chicken is sweet, citrusy, tender, slightly spicy and OH SO delicious!

Orange Chicken - Instant Pot This Instant Pot Orange Chicken recipe is a favorite in our home. My husband requests it all the time. Then start throwing together the ingredients of the Orange Chicken in the Instant Pot. You can have Orange Chicken - Instant Pot using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Orange Chicken - Instant Pot

  1. It's 2 lbs of chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces.
  2. Prepare 2 Tbsp of oil.
  3. It's 1/4 c of orange juice.
  4. You need 1/3 of White or yellow onion chopped large.
  5. It's of sauce.
  6. Prepare 3/4 c of orange juice.
  7. It's 1 of tbps hot sauce or taco sauce.
  8. Prepare 1 of tbps white wine.
  9. It's 1/3-1/2 c of tomato sauce.
  10. It's 1/4 c of soy sauce.
  11. Prepare 1 tbsp of curry and ginger powder mixed as you see fit.
  12. Prepare 1/4 c of sugar.
  13. It's 1/4 c of brown sugar.
  14. You need of Orange zest.
  15. Prepare of thickener.
  16. You need 2-3 tbsp of cornstarch.
  17. It's 2 Tbsp of orange juice.
  18. Prepare of garnish.
  19. Prepare 1/2 c of cashews.
  20. It's of Green onion - chopped.
  21. You need of Orange zest.
  22. Prepare of rice.
  23. You need of Make some white rice or brown rice or a rice packet.
  24. You need of Enough rice to be happy.

This fast and easy Instant Pot orange chicken is a lifesaver on a busy day. Bright and fresh orange flavors are combined with Asian flavors to make this perennial take-out favorite at home. Now you can make an Instant Pot sesame-orange chicken recipe easily at home. Serve it over cauliflower rice or my fried caul-rice!

Orange Chicken - Instant Pot step by step

  1. Dry chicken breasts with paper towels, make them dry. Don't skip this. Chop chicken into 1-2in chunks..
  2. Turn instant pot to saute on high (more). When it is at Hot, add the oil, chopped onion and chopped chicken. Stir constantly until chicken is just browned on all sides..
  3. Add the 1/4c orange juice and deglaze the pot with a wooden spoon. When done, cancel the instant pot..
  4. Add the sauce ingredients to sauteed chicken. Add everything under sauce section and stir until combined and over all chicken pieces..
  5. Manual pressure cook for 6 minutes. Natural release 10-12 minutes. While your waiting, make the thickener... Mix the cornstarch and orange juice until all clumps are gone. More cornstarch equals thicker sauce..
  6. Release the pressure and turn back on saute mode (low or normal now). Add the cashews from garnish section. Slowly mix in thickener slurry and stir while cooking for 2-3 minutes until sauce is thick..
  7. Turn off instant pot. Let sit for 5-7 minutes..
  8. Spoon over there rice and add green onion and zest as final garnish when serving. Enjoy it inside your face..

Instant Pot Orange Chicken with a sweet and sticky orange sauce and fluffy rice. This orange chicken recipe is easy to make and everything cooks at once in your Instant Pot - even the rice! If you love the flavors in orange chicken, you'll also enjoy my Slow Cooker Orange Chicken and Chicken Lettuce Wraps with orange sauce. For more best Instant Pot recipes, try my Instant Pot Spaghetti. Instant Pot Orange Chicken—tender bites of chicken in a flavorful orange sauce.