Instant Pot Forgotten Chicken–one of those recipes you need in your back pocket for a busy day. Throw everything into the pot and forget about it! Easy, flavorful, tender chicken with rice.
Instant Pot Forgotten Chicken
This is one of those recipes that doesn’t look all that appealing but it tastes really good! It’s called forgotten chicken because it’s a recipe that you can throw into your pot, walk away and come back whenever you are ready. It stays delicious for up to 2-3 hours on the warm setting. You can just “fuhgeddaboudit.”
- This recipe makes 4 servings. You can easily double the recipe. Keep the same cooking time.
- I like to use brown rice as much as I can. However this recipe can also be made with white rice. In order to make this with white rice you will need to cut chicken into thinner pieces. You can use boneless thighs or breasts and cut them in half horizontally so they are thinner. Use 1 ½ cups water and 1 cup of white rice. Pressure cook for 8 minutes with a 5-10 minute natural pressure release.
- This recipe tastes great with moist and tender dark meat. If you don’t like dark meat you can try making this with boneless, skinless breasts. Keep the same cooking time.
- If you’d like to make this recipe dairy free simply leave out the sour cream. It will still taste great!
- I like to buy Better than Bouillon at Costco in the big jars. I use it so much in the Instant Pot. It really adds a lot of flavor to so many dishes. If you don’t have the chicken base you can try using bouillon cubes/granules. They seem to be more strong and salty so I would only use 1 or 2 cubes or teaspoons.
- I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*. You can also make this in your 3 quart pot. To make in the 8 quart increase the broth to 1 ½ cups and the rice to 1 ¼ cups.
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Instant Pot Forgotten Chicken
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 22 minutes (plus 10 minute NPR)
- Total Time: 32 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
Description
One of those recipes you need in your back pocket for a busy day. Throw everything into the pot and forget about it! Easy, flavorful, tender chicken with rice.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup water
- 1 Tbsp Better than Bouillon Chicken Base
- 1 cup brown rice
- 4–6 pieces of bone-in chicken (drums, thighs) or boneless thighs
- 2 Tbsp dried onions
- 1 tsp poultry seasoning
- 3/4 tsp garlic salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream or 4 ounces cream cheese
Instructions
- Pour water into Instant Pot. Stir in the chicken base (it doesn’t have to be dissolved). Sprinkle in the rice. Lay the chicken into Instant Pot. Sprinkle the onions, poultry seasoning and garlic salt on top of the chicken.
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 22 minutes. When time is up let the pot sit for at least 10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
- Move chicken to a plate. Stir sour cream or cream cheese in with the rice. Serve rice and chicken and enjoy!
- Category: Chicken
- Method: Instant Pot
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Can I use Greek yogurt instead? What about chicken broth?
Sure I don’t see why not!
WHOA! That was an AMAZING recipe! It smelled SO good while it was cooking. My son said he wouldn’t mind having it again tomorrow!
★★★★★
Oh that’s so great! Thanks for the 5 stars.
If I use breast – how many please?
I’d use about 1 ½ pounds
Can I use frozen chicken thighs?
★★★★
yes I did that and it worked great!
If ii wanted to use white rice, how long to cook??????? Thank you, love your recipes!
She says above in her description …”Use 1 ½ cups water and 1 cup of white rice. Pressure cook for 8 minutes with a 5-10 minute natural pressure release.”
I figured it might be a minute before Karen can reply so, here ya go! She already addressed this above. 🥰 Hope this helps! 😊
Hi Karen,
Thank you for this recipe. I want to make it tonight. My question is this. I have a 10 QT Instant Pot and I always struggle with how to adjust the liquid. If I double this recipe, would I use 4 cups of liquid, or how would you suggest I adjust the liquid so the rice isn’t mushy?
I would double the recipe straight across. So use 2 ½ cups liquid. Keep the same cooking time.
Is it possible to use cauliflower rice instead of brown rice?
I suspect that the cauliflower will turn to mush. It would be better to cook that on the stove, separate from the chicken.