Instant Pot Chicken With Mushrooms has a gourmet taste that’s achieved in under 30 minutes. Need a quick, satisfying weeknight dinner? Look no further.
My name is Natalya and I run the blog Momsdish. I love simple dishes that only require a few ingredients. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the Instant Pot has become my secret weapon. During the week, you will often find my family and I chowing down on Instant Pot Chicken Thighs. I love this recipe because you can use fresh or frozen chicken.Â
What to Serve Alongside Instant Pot Chicken?
The creamy mushroom sauce goes perfectly well with mashed potatoes or rice. Round out the meal with some roasted veggies or a garden salad.Â
How Long Does it Take to Cook Chicken Breast in an Instant Pot?
If you haven’t cooked with an Instant Pot yet, be prepared to be amazed at the swift cooking times! For boneless and skinless chicken breast, cook them on high manual pressure for 10 minutes. As for the dark meat and chicken thighs, cook them at high manual pressure for 15 minutes.Â
Can you Cook Frozen Meat in an Instant Pot?
Only have frozen chicken on hand? No problem. You can cook frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts in the Instant Pot too. They will just take a bit longer. For medium-sized breasts, cook at high pressure for 12 minutes. Then, allow the pressure to release naturally for an additional 10 minutes by leaving the Instant Pot alone. Make sure the indicator shows that the pressure has been released before opening the Instant Pot.Â
How to Store Instant Pot Chicken With Mushrooms for Later?
This is a great meal prepping recipe. Prepare a couple of batches and store them in airtight containers in the fridge. Leftovers will last for up to a week.Â
How to Make Instant Pot Chicken With Mushrooms?
The key to making great food in the Instant Pot is cooking in layers. First, you will brown your chicken in the Instant Pot, then set it aside. Then, you will add your mushrooms into the pot and saute them until tender. Next, you will add the chicken back in alongside the broth. Set your chicken aside and get started on the mushroom sauce. Add the cream and mushroom mixture to the pot to meld the flavors together. Pour the sauce over your chicken and get ready to feast!Â
Instant Pot Chicken With Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 2 lb chicken breasts
- 1/3 cup flour
- 1 tbs salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb mushrooms sliced
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Place flour in a bowl with salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning. Stir to combine.
- Dredge chicken breast on all sides into the seasoned flour.
- Preheat Instant Pot on Saute More mode. Add olive oil to the pot.
- Cook chicken on all sides until it's golden brown. Remove chicken from the Instant Pot and set aside.
- Add mushrooms and sautee them until they are golden. Add chicken on top of the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper.
- Add water to the Instant Pot. Close the lid and change setting to Manual Pressure High for 12 minutes.
- Vent to release pressure, be careful, stay away from the hot steam. Remove chicken from the pot and place it in a serving bowl. To the pot, add heavy cream and switch setting to Sautee and simmer for about 5 minutes or until the mushroom sauce thickens.
- Pour sauce on the chicken. Garnish with parmesan cheese or herbs.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Extremely easy and great flavor. Served with Jasmine rice and salad.
If I am using frozen chicken breasts, do I still dredge in flour and try to brown it first, before pressure cooking?
Hi, sorry, we haven’t attempted this with frozen chicken so we can’t guarantee your results. In this case, it would be better to thaw your chicken and prepare the recipe as written.
I am trying this right now with thin frozen breasts and only cooking 8 minutes.. i did saute them but only enough to get the seasonings on…we shall see. 🙂
This was so good and easy to make! My 3.5 year old willingly tried a couple pieces of mushrooms for the first time ever!! I added a little parmesan cheese to the flour mixtured and let some spinach wilt in the instant pot along with the sauce and served it all over rice. Will definitely make this again soon!
I made this recipe for dinner and it was delicious! The mushroom sauce was the bomb. I sliced the chicken after it was done and put it in the sauce and served it over rice with peas. Everyone loved it! Thanks for this wonderful dish!
Very good dish. My family liked it. Thank you
I wanted to make this recipe, but I didn’t have any cream or fresh mushrooms. I looked and found some canned mushroom soup and some jarred mushrooms, so I decided to try that. It actually worked great. I didn’t need any cream to make the gravy, the soup was delicious. I would prefer to use fresh ingredients, but was pleasantly surprised at how good it turned out. I served it with brown rice instead of potatoes. Delicious!! Just wanted to share this in case it helped anyone else! Next time I will use fresh mushrooms!
Thank u! I’m about to try this but all I have is cream of mushroom soup so glad u have already done it!
Made this tonight and boyfriend and I loved it! Definitely a repeater ? thank you!
This looks so perfect as a comforting winter evening meal. I am Infact going to prepare this for too nights meal ??
Adding this to my favorite dinners! ?
I made this for dinner and the family.loves them. Thank you so much!