Instant Pot Honey Soy Chicken Thighs

Instant Pot Honey Soy Chicken Thighs are an easy weeknight dinner recipe in your pressure cooker that is is loaded with delicious Asian inspired flavors!

Asian Inspired Pressure Cooker Chicken Thighs

Instant Pot honey soy chicken balances the sweet honey with the umami of soy sauce. Cooked in an electric pressure cooker, making it is easy and relatively quick. Plus, cleaning up after is easy too.

Serve this easy chicken thigh recipe with some brown rice and pickled cucumber salad for an easy and healthy dinner idea. Or make a comforting meal out of it with some fried rice and egg rolls!

Making Instant Pot Soy Honey Chicken

Once you accustomed to using an Instant Pot, then you pretty much want to use it for everything. Anything once cooked low and slow on the stovetop in a pot works in an Instant Pot. Don’t get me wrong, a great Dutch oven still works great and offers its charms, but an Instant Pot gets that slow cooked flavor in a fraction of the time.

Time to get a meal on the table, and appetites getting antsy, then a dish like Instant Pot honey soy chicken thighs just can’t be beat.

Tips For Making Glazed Chicken In a Pressure Cooker

Make sure the Instant Pot is preheated to start. Next, allow the chicken skin to nicely browned. You want it nicely crisped up in the hot oil before you add the lid. If the chicken is sticking to the pot, then it isn’t ready to flip.

Wait until the pot releases the thigh on its own easily. If you dig it up with a spatula then it isn’t ready. That will only damage the skin and make it harder to clean to pot later.

Don’t worry about it burning unless you stop paying attention to it completely. You can sort of actually hear when it is ready if you pay close attention, because the sound of the sizzle changes.

Cooking With Honey

Honey is a wonderful ingredient, but it can be sort of fickle to use in cooking. Because it burns easily, which can bring out an unpleasant bitterness, it is best to mix it into the glaze then just finish the chicken with it, but not leave it under the heat too long.

Heating honey too long can actually break it down and isn’t good. If you do happen to overheat the honey and you taste a distinct bitterness, then wash off the glaze and start over.

The best way to avoid any issues is to keep the temp a bit lower when you mix it with the soy, then use it to glaze the chicken, but let the leftover heat of the cooked chicken create the glazing effect. You don’t need to crank the heat back up to get it to glaze like is sometimes necessary with other non-honey based glazes.

Can I cook riced with my chicken

If you love making a meal all in one pot as much as I do, you can add a small bowl of rice to the top of the chicken before sealing the lid and cooking. Simply follow the directions from this Instant Pot Chicken Fajita recipe, where you add 1 cup white rice and 1 cup water to an oven safe bowl.

Cook for the 10 minutes that the recipe calls for and then allow a 10 minute natural release. Remove the bowl of rice and fluff with a fork. With only a few more minutes of cooking time, you complete your wholesome meal!

• Instant Pot Chicken Fajita

More Instant Pot Chicken Recipes

Hope you enjoy Instant Pot honey soy chicken! Instant Pots offer a very low pressure way to do pressurized cooking. So, nice to have a few recipes up your sleeve to make good use of it.

Instant Pot Chili Lime Chicken Tacos – Whip up these easy and flavorful tacos the whole family will love

10 Healthy Chicken Recipes in a Pressure Cooker – From Thai Peanut to Balsamic, there are so many great way to prepare chicken breasts.

Instant Pot Chicken Ramen – Make a bowl of this comforting soup for a fantastic dinner.

Healthy Pressure Cooker White Chicken Chili Soup – This warm bowl of goodness is full of tender chicken, vegetables and a bit of spice.

• Instant Pot Chili Lime Chicken Tacos
• 10 Healthy Chicken Recipes in a Pressure Cooker
• Instant Pot Chicken Ramen
• Healthy Pressure Cooker White Chicken Chili Soup

Notes

To make Pot in Pot (PIP) rice with this chicken, do the following, In a small (2 cup) oven proof glass bowl, add 1 cup rinsed rice, 1 cup water, a drizzle of oil and salt. Carefully place the bowl on a trivet over the seared chicken, ensuring it is at least 1 inch below the top of your inner liner. Cook the chicken or 10 minutes under pressure and when the time is up, allow the pressure to release for 10 minutes before venting the lid. Carefully remove the bowl with oven mitts and tongs and fluff with a fork.

Serving: 1 g | Calories: 235 kcal | Carbohydrates: 20 g | Protein: 11 g | Fat: 13 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 10 g | Cholesterol: 42 mg | Sodium: 952 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 5 g