Easy Instant Pot Chicken Dinner

This 3 ingredient Instant Pot Chicken dinner is great for pressure cooker beginners and anyone in need of a quick and delicious meal. If you can open a can you can make this!

If you’re out of the loop the Instant Pot is a crockpot for people who can’t plan ahead. It’s a countertop electric pressure cooker that can be used to cook food quickly.

It’s not actually instant, it takes time to build up the heat and pressure needed to cook the food, but it can knock a lot of time off your meals.

I’m not a fan of the ‘let’s make everything in the instant pot’ movement (you can pry my cast iron out of my cold, dead hands!) but when you’re doing a ‘wet’ cooking method it’s hard to beat. I haven’t made a soup on the stove since I brought mine home.

Like most moms, I have a rotation of meals that I can always fall back on and this one is perfect for last minute meals. I’ve made this Instant Pot chicken dinner recipe a few times and it always turns out perfect.

In general, we eat a lot of chicken (not our chickens), my go-to is Maple Chicken & Potatoes One Pan Dinner but sometimes I’m not in the mood to peel things or I have chicken nuggets in the oven. Enter, the instant pot. I have the 8qt Duo Instant Pot but there are a lot of different brands and sizes out there.

The instant pot cooks via steam pressure so they should work out to be about the same but the smaller pots may cook faster or not be able to hold all of the ingredients. I’m not an expert, just a chick in the kitchen with a pressure cooker. From the time I close the pot to the end of the Natural Pressure Release was 55 minutes.

Everything in this dish is stuff I always keep around. I cleaned my pantry the other day and found 14 cans of fire-roasted tomatoes from Aldi’s. I must buy 2 or three cans every time I go in. They’re cheap and I use them constantly.

I put them in soup, I use them when I cook chicken in the crockpot. It’s an easy way to add flavor.

Crushed pineapple is another thing I always seem to have. I’m not quite as sure on that one. I think it’s because my moms zucchini bread recipe calls for crushed pineapple so I buy a can every time I plan on making it.

This chicken dinner recipe combines both of those with a few pounds of chicken breast. The resulting dish is moist, flavorful and adaptable.

You can serve it over rice or quinoa. Strain the chicken & tomatoes and it’s a great filling for soft tacos. Or add a carton of chicken broth it’s a flavorful bowl of soup.

I ate it on it’s own topped with left over plain Greek yogurt from the Caramelized Onion Dip and shredded cheese.

Make sure you PIN it for later and check out these recipes before you go: