These Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken Bowls with rice, broccoli and a 5-ingredient stir fry sauce make for a delicious meal prep idea!
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How to make Instant Pot chicken teriyaki
The amazing thing about this Instant Pot chicken teriyaki recipe is that everything is cooked together. You don’t need separate pans for the chicken, rice and sauce. This is by far the easiest way I’ve ever made chicken teriyaki.
- Dice the chicken into one inch pieces
- Put the olive oil, chicken, hoisin sauce, rice vinegar, garlic, ginger, carrots and water into the Instant Pot.
- Put the rice in last. It will float on top of the other ingredients.
- Set the Instant Pot to cook for two minutes.
- Perform a quick pressure release.
- Add the broccoli, red pepper and green onions and put the lid back on for five minutes. These veggies will get soggy if you cook them under high pressure. Letting them sit with the other hot ingredients for a few minutes will steam them just enough.
- Garnish with green onions and sesame seeds.
Ingredients in chicken teriyaki bowls
These Instant Pot chicken teriyaki bowls are packed with fresh healthy ingredients.
I recommend using boneless skinless chicken breast for this recipe. You will need to cut the raw chicken into bite sized pieces. You don’t want to have to cut around bones and skin. It’s messy and frustrating.
For the rest of the Instant Pot chicken teriyaki dish, including homemade teriyaki sauce, you will need:
- Soy sauce
- Hoisin sauce
- Rice vinegar
- Garlic
- Ginger (I like to use fresh grated ginger, but you can use use powdered ginger instead)
- Carrots
- Jasmine rice
- Broccoli
- Red pepper
- Green onions
- Sesame seeds
Ingredients substitutions
You can change up the veggies you use in this Instant Pot chicken teriyaki dish each time you make it! Try any of these:
- Snap peas
- Bok choy
- Baby corn
- Bell peppers
- Asparagus
- Edamame
- Green beans
- Pineapple
Most of your veggies you will just want to cut into small pieces and let steam in the hot dish after it has finished cooking. For this recipe, I only cook the carrots under pressure. Most other veggies will fall apart.
You can use other kinds of rice as well. Just keep in mind that some may take longer to cook. Brown rice always takes longer than white rice. You don’t want hard rice, but you also don’t want overcooked, dry chicken. You’ll need to balance the two factors if you use brown rice.
Do you need to marinate the chicken?
You could marinate the chicken for these Instant Pot chicken teriyaki bowls if you want, but you certainly don’t have to.
The point of a marinade is to infuse the meat with flavor. It will also help to retain some of the moisture during cooking.
In this recipe, the chicken is cooked in the sauce so has little risk of drying out. The homemade teriyaki sauce provides lot of flavor for the dish without the need to marinate it.
However, if you want to, you can allow the chicken to marinate for 30 minutes. Chicken breast does not need long because there is no skin or bones.
What do you serve with Instant Pot chicken teriyaki?
This one dish can provide a complete meal all in one so all you have to do is dump and press start! It has protein, starch and veggies. But here are some ideas to serve with chicken teriyaki:
- Grilled veggies
- Green salad
- Corn on the cob
- Brussels sprouts
- Lo mein
- Fruit
Storing and reheating
You can store this Instant Pot chicken teriyaki in the refrigerator for five days. This makes it great for meal prep. It’s so fast and simple to make. Then you can divide it into four individual meal prep containers. Since it all cooks in one pot, it’s easy to separate into portions.
To reheat, put it in the microwave for a minute or two. You can add a splash of water to the bowl to ensure that the rice does not dry out.
If you love this homemade teriyaki sauce, you can make the sauce itself and store it in the refrigerator. It will last for about a year. Then you can use it anytime you want an exciting flavor on your meat or veggies!
Freezing Instant Pot chicken teriyaki
One of the best ways to freeze chicken teriyaki is as a dump meal. Put all of the raw ingredients that will be cooked together in the Instant Pot in a freezer bag. This will last for three months in your freezer. When you are ready to use it, thaw it over-night in the refrigerator. Then dump it all in the Instant Pot and cook!
You can also freeze Instant Pot chicken teriyaki after it has been cooked. Make sure you allow it to completely cool before putting it in the freezer. Any condensation in the container will ruin the food.
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Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken Bowls
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 medium-sized chicken breasts, diced into 1 inch pieces
- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce or tamari
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
- 2 carrots, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 cup jasmine rice
- 1 head broccoli, cut into small florets
- 1 red pepper, chopped
- 4 green onions, sliced
- 1 tbsp Sesame seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Dump olive oil, chicken, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, rice vinegar, garlic, ginger, carrots, water and rice into Instant Pot in that order leaving rice to float on top of other ingredients. Do not stir. Place lid on and cook for 2 minutes on high pressure.
- Instant Pot will take about 10 minutes to come to pressure then cooks on high pressure for two minutes. Do a quick pressure release and remove lid when safe to do so. Stir in broccoli, red pepper and green onions, then replace lid and let sit another 10 minutes.
- Serve among four bowls and top with more green onions if desired and sesame seeds. Enjoy!
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Aaron says
This is a great recipe with chicken. I was wondering though, would it be possible to do this with shrimp as a meal prep idea? If so, would the cooking times be the same?
Taylor Stinson says
Hey Aaron – I don’t think shrimp would come out the same way unfortunately, especially not in the Instant Pot. Wish I could help!
Trangy says
Thanks Crystal! As I can’t get a hand on all the ingredients right now for teriyaki sauce but happen to have a bottle of ready made teriyaki sauce in the pantry – how would you suggest to swap it out?
Cynthia says
Very tasty recipe. The only thing I would change is to do a little less hoisin sauce and increase cooking to three minutes. My rice was not fully cooked. Otherwise, I will make it again.
Marcie says
I agree, my rice was a bit al denote as well, it otherwise good flavor!
Becky says
Can you make a larger serving and how to increase?
Taylor Stinson says
Hi Becky – you can double this recipe. You should be able to adjust the ingredient amounts in the recipe card with the slider.
Morgan Welch says
We’ve made this dozens of times and love it! We always eat all of the leftovers later in the week. I’d be interested in a crockpot version as well for when it’s my turn to make a slow cooker meal for lunch at work!
Kenna says
This turned out great! I was wondering – could you substitute pork loin/chops for the chicken for a dinner meal? It’s all I have on hand for tonight!
Taylor Stinson says
Hey Kenna! So happy you enjoyed the first time around 🙂 I imagine you could sub in pork for the chicken but I’ve never tried it myself so I couldn’t say for sure. I imagine you might need to bump up the cook time by at least 2 minutes. Sorry I can’t be of more help!
msSally says
Could you use frozen broccoli?
Taylor Stinson says
You definitely could! Just defrost it first before adding it to the pot at the end of cook time.
Mallory says
Quick question! When it says a serving size is approx 391 calories, what exactly would that serving size be?? Also, this is one of my fav recipes!!!
Taylor Stinson says
Hey Mallory – so glad it’s one of your favourites 🙂 I don’t provide servings by weight/cup unfortunately! You will need to take the number of servings listed and divide into portions, then each portion is a serving. The reason I don’t give out serving sizes is because you need to make sure to divide it all evenly as even just a one cup serving size could have vastly different nutritional info if the chicken, rice, etc isn’t divided up completely evenly.
Karen W says
Hi there! As a former girl on Bloor, (360 E. for 20 years!) of course I had to give your recipe a try! I’m about to start it right now, so I’ll have to check in and let you know how it goes. My one concern is the cook time. Will the chicken thoroughly cook in just 2 minutes? I guess I’m about to find out!!
Taylor Stinson says
Hey Karen – it pressure cooks for 2 minutes but is still cooking for 10-15 minutes while the Instant Pot heats up and the chicken is cut into small pieces so gets cooked quickly. I know exactly where that building is, we could have been neighbours!!
Alex Basso says
If I doubled the base recipe would it still fit in a 6 quart unit?
Taylor Stinson says
I don’t think it would unfortunately.