15-Minute Honey Garlic Chicken: Your Go-To Pressure Cooker Recipe
This 15-minute honey garlic chicken is an easy pressure cooker dinner featuring tender chicken in a rich honey-soy-garlic glaze with a subtle kick of heat. Perfect for quick weeknight meals!
Equipment
- 1 Pressure cooker
Ingredients
Main ingredients
- 1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into small cubes about ½ inch
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil or canola oil
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes optional, adjust for heat
- Salt and black pepper for seasoning
- Sliced green onions for topping
- Chopped fresh parsley or cilantro to sprinkle over
- Chopped peanuts for crunch
- Lime wedges to squeeze over
Instructions
Instructions
- Season your chicken cubes lightly with salt and black pepper. Remember, soy sauce got that salt, so don’t overdo it.
- Heat up the olive oil in your pressure cooker pot on sauté mode till it’s shimmering.
- Add the chicken cubes and brown ’em on one side for about 3 to 4 minutes. You want good color but not cooked through yet.
- While that’s happening, whisk together your honey, soy sauce, minced garlic, and red pepper flakes in a small bowl.
- Turn your chicken pieces over in the pot and pour the sauce right in. Stir to coat everything well then seal your pressure cooker lid.
- Set it to cook on high pressure for 5 minutes, then do a natural release for 5 minutes to keep all those juices in. Open it up and get ready for that tender pull every bite delivers.
- Top with chopped peanuts, herbs, and lime if desired and serve with steamed rice.
Notes
To thicken the sauce, add a cornstarch slurry (mix 1–3 teaspoon cornstarch with 1 tablespoon water) during the last 1–2 minutes. Great over rice or noodles. Store in fridge up to 3 days or freeze for later.