Instant Pot Fried Chicken Rice—you may have seen Japan’s rice cooker hack of adding a piece of KFC fried chicken in with your rice for lots of fried chicken flavor. Now you can make this viral sensation in your Instant Pot.
Instant Pot Fried Chicken Rice
Each week I share something Instant Pot on YouTube. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to see the videos each week!
Today I shared how to make this fun Instant Pot KFC Rice recipe. The “recipe” really isn’t a recipe at all. It’s just adding rice, water/broth, soy sauce and one piece of fried chicken to your Instant Pot. After the rice is cooked you’ll scrape all the meat off of the bone and stir it in with the rice.
The piece of fried chicken gives the whole pot of rice a great flavor. If you want to get really crazy add in two pieces of chicken 😜 . This rice side dish is great with steamed veggies.
What type of rice can I use? In the video I used brown rice. However you definitely can use other types of rice. Just follow the cooking times and rice to liquid ratios in this green chart:
Try these other rice dishes in your Instant Pot…
Instant Pot Fried Rice–Liz said, “this was a complete triumph – thank you so much! We’ll be enjoying this dish again and again!”
Instant Pot Chili Cheese Rice–PJ said, “Just made this tonight. It was delicious and very simple to make.”
Instant Pot Lemon Rice–Catherine said, “It was delicious and perfectly cooked. I’ll keep this recipe for home and future community dinners.”
Instant Pot Fried Chicken Rice
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 4 cups of rice 1x
Description
You may have seen Japan’s rice cooker hack of adding a piece of KFC fried chicken in with your rice for lots of fried chicken flavor. Now you can make this viral sensation in your Instant Pot.
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked rice (you choose which rice you want to use)
- 2–3 cups broth or water (Liquid amount is dependent on which type of rice you use. See the green chart.)
- 2 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
- 1 fried chicken drumstick
Instructions
- Add rice, liquid, soy sauce and chicken to Instant Pot.
- Cover pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to the amount of time specified in the green chart. Follow the pressure release instructions in the chart as well.
- Remove the lid. Remove any meat and skin from the chicken that you can and stir into the rice. Discard the bone. Salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*.
- Category: Side
- Method: Instant Pot
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Hello Karen
First and foremost i want to thank you for all the amazing recipes you send out to us! They have never failed me. I would like to add veg soup mix to this recipe, should i add 1/2 c. veg. soup mix and reduce the rice by 1/2 a cup?
Thank you
Yes that sounds like a good plan! Let me know how it goes!
Tried it and it was amazing! I added 5 drumsticks because 1 would not be enough for my family of men.
Thank you for the great recipe
You are welcome!
I loved this recipe but I think next time I will add some diced onion to cook with the rice and add the scrambled egg like Jaci said to do
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Love both those ideas!
Thank you ever so for this wonderful recipe. We love the Fried Chicken from Walmart, so I used a couple of pieces from our “ stash”. This was sooooo good, when I removed the chicken after it cooked in instant pot to shred I added 3 eggs that I scrambled in a bowl to cooked rice.
I stirred to let the eggs cook then I added the shredded chicken and topped with diced green onions. Very easy and very tasty! Hubby can make this when he is on road. Thank you again
😊
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Good idea about the eggs! Sounds like a good meal to me!
I made this tonight using KFC thigh and breast. Hubby isn’t a fan of soy sauce so I used Hoisin Sauce instead and drizzled a bit extra on each serving. It was fantastic and was my first time making rice in my instant pot. Thank you Karen.
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Glad you liked it Dana! I won’t cook rice any other way now!
YOU KEEP FORGETTING TO SAY THE PRESSURE SETTING!!!!!!!
James, if you look at that green chart which she provided, each type of rice clearly has the PRESSURE SETTING & TIME LISTED!!!!!!!!
When in doubt….read the directions.
For my recipes it’s always high.
Since we don’t have KFC here, what about using Popeye’s fried chicken?
That will work great!
Have made this recipe a few times in my Zojirushi rice cooker using sushi grade rice. Not a fan of KFC but purposely bought few pieces of the spicy and added 2 thighs and a drumstick plus some Mirin with the soy sauce. When done, added frozen peas to complete the meal. Easy one pot meal for instant pot or rice cooker I’m sure your followers well enjoy
Yum Nancy! I love these suggestions 😊
Can more chicken pieces be added. 1 drumstick doesn’t seem like much meat.
Yep! You could definitely do that!