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Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

October 28, 2020 by Julie 15 Comments

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Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

This Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli is made with delicious pantry staples and comes together quickly, making it the perfect weeknight dinner. Enjoy it spooned over fluffy brown rice or by itself for a deliciously flavorful meal the whole family will love.

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

True story: I was intimidated by my pressure cooker for months. All of that hot steam and pressure freaked me out and, after receiving a pressure cooker from Ryan for Christmas, our pressure cooker went untouched for nearly a year. Fast forward to the future and now it’s easily one of our most-used kitchen appliances. I love the way it does everything a slow cooker does in a fraction of the time and find myself using the pressure cooker year round because it’s so darn easy.

⁠For my fellow pressure cooker lovers, I have another Instant Pot recipe to share with you today — my second ever on the blog! Does this mean I’m behind the times? Probably. But I’ve never claimed to be a super cool food blogger. I just blog about what I like even if it takes me a while to discover kitchen appliances that people have been raving about for years.

So, whether you recently added an Instant Pot to your kitchen collection or have been using one forever, I think this recipe for my Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli will wow you in the best kind of way! Why? Because it’s easy to make (pretty much a given for the recipes I share around here), delicious and made with a handful of pantry staples.

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

Here’s what you’ll need to make it:

  • chicken broth⁠
  • soy sauce or coconut aminos
  • honey
  • ketchup
  • sriracha ⠀
  • garlic⁠⠀
  • rice vinegar⁠⠀
  • chicken thighs (always preferred over chicken breasts over here for maximum flavor!)
  • frozen broccoli
  • cornstarch

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

The best part of this recipe? The only thing you need to chop is a few cloves of garlic. That’s it! We’re making good use of frozen broccoli (already chopped for you!) in this recipe and I promise you won’t be able to tell. I’ve actually made this recipe with both fresh and frozen broccoli and now I make it exclusively with frozen broccoli because it tastes fantastic. The frozen broccoli soaks up all of the delicious sauce but doesn’t get that weird frozen veggie texture or diluted watery flavor at all. Pinky swear!

This Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli is a great one to keep on hand for busy weeknights since you basically just dump everything you need for the honey garlic sauce into the Instant Pot along with the chicken and let it do it’s thing before throwing in the frozen broccoli and a bit of cornstarch to help thicken everything up and turn the sauce into something worthy of spooning over piles of fluffy rice. YUM!

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken

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Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken and Broccoli

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  • Author: Julie
  • Category: dinner, chicken
  • Method: Instant Pot
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Ingredients

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  • 3/4 cup chicken broth⁠
  • 1/3 cup soy sauce⁠ or coconut aminos⠀
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup
  • 2 teaspoons sriracha ⠀
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced⁠⠀
  • 1 tablespoon rice vinegar⁠⠀
  • 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs⁠⠀
  • 16 oz frozen broccoli florets
  • 3 teaspoons cornstarch ⁠⠀
  • Optional: Sesame seeds + green onion for garnish + brown rice for serving

Instructions

  1. Whisk together the chicken broth through rice vinegar in the Instant Pot. Add the chicken thighs and stir to coat. ⁠⠀
  2. Cover, seal, and cook on manual high pressure for 8 minutes. Once done, turn the knob to quick -release the pressure and remove the lid. ⁠⠀
  3. Press off, remove the chicken and shred. Return the chicken to the Instant Pot and turn on the sauté function. ⁠⠀
  4. Mix cornstarch into 1/4 cup of water in a small bowl and pour into the Instant Pot. Stir. ⁠⠀
  5. Add the broccoli and cook for about 15 minutes, stirring often, until broccoli has warmed and softened, and sauce has thickened a bit. ⁠⠀
  6. Spoon over brown rice if desired, top with sesame seeds and enjoy! ⁠

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Filed Under: Chicken/Turkey Recipes, Gluten-Free, Instant Pot Recipes, Lunch/Dinner Recipes Tagged With: broccoli, chicken, dinner recipes, Instant Pot, Instant Pot chicken, Instant Pot chicken and broccoli, Instant Pot honey garlic chicken, Instant Pot recipes

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  1. Vera says

    October 28, 2020 at 5:47 am

    I was just gifted an instant pot and very intimidated by it and haven’t yet touched it. Any ideas on a good first practice recipes?
    This recipe looks delicious to try once I figure out how to us this contraption! Could you leave out the sriracha and any subs for the rice vinegar?

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    • janet pole says

      October 29, 2020 at 9:30 am

      I am on my second … I actually wore the other one out! Start off with a soup – it is almost foolproof. Do you have a kindle or kindle unlimited? There are thousands of free books there for Instant Pots…if not, google a chicken soup recipe ..there are billions online … and it is easey=peasey!

      Reply
  2. Theresa says

    October 28, 2020 at 9:56 am

    Yum!! Any suggestions for doing this in a crockpot?

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    • Amber says

      October 29, 2020 at 9:04 am

      Not Julie but I made this in my crockpot yesterday so thought I’d share!
      I added chicken to my crockpot. Then mixed all the ingredients from broth to rice vinegar and poured it over my chicken. I added the broccoli the last hour-ish (because I forgot about it earlier and mine was thawed). I didn’t have any cornstarch so I didn’t use any. It was delicious!

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      • Julie says

        October 29, 2020 at 2:07 pm

        So glad you liked it in the crock pot!! And thank you for weighing in!!

        Reply
    • Janet Pole says

      October 29, 2020 at 9:16 am

      Generally, if your slow cooker meat, soup, or stew recipe calls for being fully cooked in about 25 to 30 minutes in the Instant Pot, it will take about.8 hours on the low setting or about 4 hours on the high setting.

      Reply
      • Julie says

        October 29, 2020 at 2:08 pm

        Yes!! That’s my go-to rule of thumb, too!

        Reply
  3. Rebecca Blair says

    October 29, 2020 at 8:11 am

    The ingredients honey down to the garlic are not shown in the recipe. When do you add?

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    • Julie says

      October 29, 2020 at 2:07 pm

      They are listed in step one of the recipe! You whisk them together in the Instant Pot before adding the chicken. 🙂

      Reply
  4. McKenzie says

    November 2, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    We just made this tonight. DELICIOUS!

    Reply
  5. Tiffany says

    November 19, 2020 at 12:58 pm

    I just made this for dinner last night and both my husband and I thought it was absolutely delicious! I’m never sure with first time instant pot recipes but I am so glad I tried this one! Very easy to make in the instant pot and such a quick dinner for a week night meal. I have already shared it with my friends to try! Thanks for the recipe!

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  6. Ibis Rojas says

    June 28, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    Made this today and LOVED it! So flavorful! I topped it with some red pepper flakes for some added spice

    Reply
  7. Jen says

    April 28, 2022 at 1:43 pm

    Hi! Just found this blog. I used to live in Charlotte, now in south FL 🙂
    Could I use fresh broccoli for this?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Julie says

      April 28, 2022 at 2:48 pm

      Yes absolutely!

      Reply
  8. Jen says

    April 28, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    Thank you 🙂 Going to try this for dinner tonight.
    Love Publix but will always miss the QC staple, Harris Teeter!

    Reply

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