Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles

Name: Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients: 1 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts; 1 c. Thai peanut sauce; 3/4 c. chicken broth; 5 oz. stir-fry rice noodles; 1 c. sugar snap or snow peas; optional garnishes – chopped peanuts red pepper flakes, green onions & cilantro

Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles is the best Pressure Cooker recipe you will make! Lean chicken breasts are cooked in a homemade spicy Thai peanut sauce and finished off with rice noodles and peas for an easy and healthy one-pot meal made in your Instant Pot.

Prep5 minutes
Cook50 minutes
Total55 minutes
Serves5

Published 22 Aug 2016

Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles is the best 30 minute Pressure Cooker recipe you will make! Lean chicken breasts are cooked in a homemade spicy Thai peanut sauce and finished off with rice noodles and peas for an easy and healthy one-pot meal made in your Instant Pot.

Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles

I’m not going to lie, I am quite proud of this recipe! It is so good on so many levels. The idea came to me after using my Instant Pot for a bit realizing that the extra liquid was always boiling after cooking the meat. I put that together with the fact that rice noodles are cooked by letting them set in boiling water as opposed to how traditional noodles are boiled.

That resulted in this Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles recipe where you cook the chicken in a thai peanut sauce, open your electric pressure cooker to add the noodles and peas and then cover it back up and leave it on the slow cooker mode.

thai peanut sauce

Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles is the best 30 minute Pressure Cooker recipe you will find! Lean chicken breasts are cooked in a homemade spicy Thai peanut sauce and finished off with rice noodles and peas for an easy and healthy one-pot meal made in your Instant Pot.

Thai Peanut Pressure Cooker Recipe

The end result is the most tender and flavorful chicken with a rich Thai peanut sauce with just enough noodles for a healthy and semi low-carb recipe. The peanuts and peas are optional, but they add a nice crunch and color to the otherwise brown dish. This wholesome meal is something that you will not only feel good about eating, but you will keep coming back for more, because it tastes so good!

Healthy Chicken Pressure Cooker Recipe

While I love making simple roasts or chicken in my Instant Pot, it is fun and challenging for me to come up with complete one-pot meal. Whether I am cooking up Pressure Cooker Turkey Verde & Rice or this Pressure Cooker Thai Peanut Chicken & Noodles, the electric pressure cooker is hard to beat in the convenience it provides as well as the tender fall apart meat it produces!

More delicious Thai Peanut recipes!

Turkey Thai Peanut Lettuce Wraps are a light and healthy dinner idea packed with filling ground turkey, fresh vegetables and crunch peanuts. This is a dinner idea you can enjoy over and over, it is simply that good!

Light Thai Peanut Chicken Tenders are a healthy dinner idea bursting with bold and spicy Thai peanut flavors, paired with a simple two-ingredient sauce with creamy coconut milk!

Ingredients

1 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 c. Thai peanut sauce
3/4 c. chicken broth
5 oz. stir-fry rice noodles
1 c. sugar snap or snow peas
optional garnishes – chopped peanuts red pepper flakes, green onions & cilantro

Steps

Turn your electric pressure cooker to sauté and lightly sauté the peas for 1-2 until just slightly cooked. Remove peas and set aside. Turn off of sauté.
Add the chicken, Thai peanut sauce and broth to the pot. Cook on high pressure for 12 minutes.
Release the steam by turning the nozzle and remove the chicken from pot, leaving the sauce. To the sauce, add the noodles and ensure all of the dry noodles are submerged in sauce. Top with the peas and replace the cover as quickly as possible. Change the settings to slow cooker (normal), and cook for 10 minutes or until the noodles are soft but firm.
Meanwhile, shred the chicken breasts and set aside.
Remove the lid of the pressure cooker and give the noodles a good stir. Add the chicken back to the pot with the noodles and stir. Serve warm.

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