Anthony’s Chicken–Instant Pot chicken and pasta with a sweet and savory barbecue-mustard sauce, monterey jack cheese and bacon crumbles.
Anthony’s Chicken
This easy dump and go chicken and pasta has tons of flavor! The dish has a nice balance of flavors between the bacon, barbecue sauce and mustard, and isn’t too sweet or too spicy. It only took me about 10-15 minutes to put everything into the pot (no saute steps!) and then the Instant Pot did its thing while I picked up my son. I love coming home after running errands to a cooked dinner! Try this unique and interesting pasta chicken.
Recipe adapted from All Recipes.
Ingredients/Substitution Ideas
- Chicken broth–or water and Better than Bouillon chicken base
- Bowtie pasta–or penne pasta
- Dry minced onion–or 1 tsp onion powder
- Chicken tenderloins–fresh or frozen
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- Garlic powder
- Butter
- BBQ sauce–I used Sweet Baby Rays
- Spicy brown mustard
- Crushed tomatoes
- Bacon crumbles
- Monterey jack cheese–or pepper jack cheese
Steps
Pour broth into Instant Pot. Sprinkle in the pasta and onion. Place chicken on top of pasta. Sprinkle the chicken with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Cut the butter into small pieces and place 1 piece of butter on each of the chicken tenderloins.
Spoon the BBQ sauce and mustard on top of the chicken.
Dump the tomatoes over the top of everything.
Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 4 minutes. When time is up let pot release naturally for 10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
Stir in the bacon and cheese.
Serve and enjoy!
Notes/Tips
- Serve with green salad, roasted asparagus or peas.
- I used my 6 quart Instant Pot*. You can also make this in a 3 or 8 quart pot.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container* in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Other recipes you can make with chicken tenderloins are no peek casserole and easy club chicken.
- Instead of chicken tenderloins you can also use chicken thighs/breasts. Cut the boneless thighs into bite size pieces. Add in about 1 ½ pounds of raw cubed chicken.
- If you use another type of pasta you may need to adjust the cooking time. Here is the formula: look at the back of the box of pasta and see how many minutes it says to boil the pasta. If it’s 10 minutes you divide that number by 2 (=5) and then subtract 2 minutes. So you would pressure cook for 3 minutes. I usually use a 5-10 minute natural pressure release for pasta.
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Anthony’s Chicken
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 minutes (plus 10 minute NPR)
- Total Time: 24 minutes
- Yield: 4–6 servings 1x
Description
Instant Pot chicken and pasta with a sweet and savory barbecue-mustard sauce, monterey jack cheese and bacon crumbles.
Ingredients
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 8 ounces bowtie pasta
- 2 Tbsp dry onion
- 6–8 chicken tenderloins (fresh or frozen)
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce
- 3 Tbsp spicy brown mustard
- 1 (15 oz) can crushed tomatoes
- 1/2 cup bacon crumbles
- 1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
Instructions
- Pour broth into Instant Pot. Sprinkle in the pasta and onion. Place chicken on top of pasta. Sprinkle the chicken with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Cut the butter into small pieces and place 1 piece of butter on each of the chicken tenderloins. Spoon the BBQ sauce and mustard on top of the chicken. Dump the tomatoes over the top of everything.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 4 minutes. When time is up let pot release naturally for 10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
- Stir in the bacon and cheese.
- Serve and enjoy!
- Category: Chicken
- Method: Instant Pot
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good Day. is it possible to add the pasta cooked after the chicken. is done? I have terrible luck with pasta in my instant pot. I love the flavors. I just don’t want to ruin more pasta 😂
Yes, but I would only add 1/2 cup of broth because the pasta isn’t in there to soak it up
Made this last night for my husband (named Anthony) whose favorite pasta shape is bowtie, favorite sauce is barbecue sauce and he loves cheese. He says it’s a top 3 dinner now! Uncanny coincidences aside, I loved it too but will double it in the future to make sure there’s enough for dinner for the family and his lunch the next day.
How PERFECT for him!! Lol
I don’t have a pressure cooker can I used a crock pot instead I would think it would turn out the same it would just take longer please let me know I really like to make this dish thank you
I haven’t had great luck with pasta in the crockpot so I didn’t try this one out in the crockpot.
I think this could be done in a slow cooker. You would need to up the chicken broth by a bit (maybe 1/2 to 3/4 cup) as you would want the pasta covered in liquid so it has something more substantial to cook in. You would then want to slow cook until pasta is tender and chicken is cooked completely. Sorry I would have to guess at how long….maybe 2-3 hours on low. But I have had good luck with pasta in the slow cooker as long as there is sufficient liquid for it to cook in.
how about crock pot instructions for this one?
I haven’t had great luck with pasta in the crockpot so I didn’t try this one out in the crockpot.
Could you use whole grain pasta instead of regular? Would the cooking time change?
yes you can and I would keep the cooking time the same.