Awesome Sauce Chicken–an easy Instant Pot or Crockpot recipe for tender chicken tenderloins in a unique sauce with honey, mustard, soy sauce and more.
Awesome Sauce Chicken
This chicken recipe is super fast and easy. It’s a dump and go recipe, which you know I love! With only a handful of ingredients and the fact that you don’t have to thaw the chicken it comes together so fast. The sauce is the star, it’s slightly sweet, slightly spicy and has some tang from the vinegar. You can easily double this recipe and use the leftover chicken on top of a salad or in a sandwich wrap.
Ingredients/Substitution Ideas
- Water
- Chicken tenderloins–frozen is fine. You can also use boneless thighs, cut into cubes.
- Low sodium soy sauce–or tamari
- Brown sugar
- Ground ginger
- Garlic powder
- Sriracha
- Dijon mustard
- Honey
- Vinegar–I used white vinegar
- Cornstarch
Steps
Pour water into Instant Pot. Place chicken evenly in the bottom of the pot.
In a small bowl stir together the soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic powder, sriracha, mustard, honey and vinegar. Pour the mixture over the chicken.
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 sit for 10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
In a small bowl stir together cornstarch with 2 Tbsp of cold water until smooth. Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. Stir the slurry into the pot to thicken the sauce. Once thickened, turn off the Instant Pot.
Serve chicken and sauce with mashed potatoes or rice.
Notes/Tips
- Serve chicken and sauce with mashed potatoes or rice. Serve alongside a side of roasted cauliflower or broccoli.
- To make pot-in-pot mashed potatoes at the same time: After step 1 place a tall trivet* into the pot around the chicken. In a pot-in-pot dish* add cubed potatoes that are mostly covered with water. (I used 6 red potatoes). Place the dish on top of the trivet. The potatoes will be perfectly cooked once the chicken is finished. Drain the potatoes and then mash them and stir in butter, milk, salt and pepper to taste. You can also use this method to make rice. Use white rice (long grain, converted, jasmine, basmati). And use a 1 cup rice to 1.25 cups water ratio.
- This recipe can be gluten free if you use gluten-free soy sauce. This recipe is dairy free.
- 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 sriracha are Instant Pot Firecracker Chicken and Instant Pot Dragon Noodles.
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Awesome Sauce Chicken
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 minutes (plus 10 minute NPR)
- Total Time: 24 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
Description
An easy Instant Pot or Crockpot recipe for tender chicken tenderloins in a unique sauce with honey, mustard, soy sauce and more.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 1/2 pounds chicken tenderloins or boneless thighs cut into cubes
- 2 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp sriracha
- 1 Tbsp dijon mustard
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 Tbsp vinegar
- 1 1/2 Tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
Instant Pot Instructions:
- Pour water into Instant Pot. Place chicken evenly in the bottom of the pot. In a small bowl stir together the soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic powder, sriracha, mustard, honey and vinegar. Pour the mixture over the chicken.
- 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 sit for 10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
- In a small bowl stir together cornstarch with 2 Tbsp of cold water until smooth. Turn Instant Pot to saute setting. Stir the slurry into the pot to thicken the sauce. Once thickened, turn off the Instant Pot.
- Serve chicken and sauce with mashed potatoes or rice.
Slow Cooker Instructions:
- Pour water into slow cooker. Place chicken evenly in the bottom of the slow cooker. In a small bowl whisk together the soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic powder, sriracha, mustard, honey, vinegar and cornstarch. Pour the mixture over the chicken.
- Cover and cook on low for 2-3 hours.
- Serve chicken and sauce with mashed potatoes or rice.
Notes
To make pot-in-pot mashed potatoes at the same time: After step 1 place a tall trivet* into the pot around the chicken. In a pot-in-pot dish* add cubed potatoes that are mostly covered with water. (I used 6 red potatoes). Place the dish on top of the trivet. The potatoes will be perfectly cooked once the chicken is finished. Drain the potatoes and then mash them and stir in butter, milk, salt and pepper to taste.
- Category: Chicken
- Method: Instant Pot or Slow Cooker
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Chris says
This was excellent! I doubled the sauce because we like gravy. The Sriracha put this recipe over the top. Just the right amount of heat. It’s in the rotation.
Karen says
Nice! And yes to your thoughts on the sriracha!