Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice is a quick and simple one-pot meal. With simple ingredients such as chicken, rice, egg, peas and carrots. You will love this recipe! Fantastic for a weeknight dinner or dinner prep lunch!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Chinese
Keyword Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 6 minutesminutes
Inactive Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 36 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Calories 489kcal
Author Jessica
Ingredients
2eggswhisked
1lbuncooked chicken-breast½-inch dice
3clovesgarlicminced
1 ½cupsuncooked jasmine-ricerinsed
1 ¼cupchicken-broth
2tspvegetable-oildivided
3-4tbspsoy sauce or wheat-free tamarito taste
1cupdiced carrots
½cupfrozen-peasthawed
1tspsesame-oil
For Garnish
hot-saucesriracha-pairs well, (optional)
sliced green-onion(optional)
Instructions
Turn on the sauté Work on the Instant Pot. Then warm 1 tsp vegetable oil, then add the whisked egg, scramble them till completely cooked.
Heat another tsp of vegetable oil at the add and then add the minced garlic. Sauté the garlic till aromatic fow a few minutes, stirring regularly.
Turn off the Sauté function, then pour in a little bit of chicken broth and then use a spatula to scrape up every last bit of food stuck into the bottom of the insert. It is important to prevent a burn off warning.
Pour in the rest of the broth, then add the diced chicken, diced carrots and rice (in this sequence ). Push down the rice to be only submerged in the broth, but don't stir.
Close and seal the lid and cook Manual high-pressure for 3minutes, together with all the maintain heating setting off. By the end of cooking time, enable the pressure to discharge obviously for 10minutes, then speedy discharge the rest of the pressure.
Remove the lid, then add the sesame oil and soy sauce and stir till the rice is well coated. Add the peas and scrambled egg ten continue to blend till well blended.
Place the lid askew on the kettle for a moment or two to allow the egg and peas to warm through. Serve immediately with your preferred garnish or split among 4 storage containers for meal-prep.
Notes
Inactive time indicates time for the Instant Pot to come back to pressure & release-pressure.