Easy Garlic Chicken Chow Mein - Instant Pot
Equipment
Ingredients
- 10 oz chicken breast cut into strips
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 small onion cut in half and sliced
- 1 Tbsp garlic minced (use less if you prefer)
- 2 cups chicken broth
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 5 oz sliced mushrooms, canned, drained (or 8 oz fresh) (optional)
- 6 ribs celery thick sliced
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch and some water to make a slurry
- chow mein noodles
- cooked white rice
Instructions
- Prep all of your ingredients: Peel and slice your onion, slice celery, then cut the chicken breast into strips. If you are using a 6 Qt pot, you can double all the ingredients. The cook time remains the same.
- Slice your celery on the bias (diagonally).
To Begin Cooking:
- Turn pot on Saute and wait for it to read Hot. Then add your olive oil and sesame oil. Put onions in the pot and cook for a minute. Then add garlic and stir making sure you down brown or burn the garlic.
- Now add your thinly sliced chicken. You don't need to cook it all the way through, you will be pressure cooking it next. Just saute it with the onions and garlic until the outside begins to turn white instead of pink. This will keep the chicken from sticking together during the cooking process and it will cook more evenly.
- Deglaze pot with broth and soy sauce. Now add the mushrooms.
- Add celery on top and do not stir the ingredients. Leave it layered with the celery on top. This will help the celery from getting overcooked.
- Pressure Cook for 1 min and QR. Open pot and stir. Your contents will be boiling when you open the pot. The thinly sliced chicken will be fully cooked and tender. (Don't add additional time because you don't think it will cook in just 1 min.)
- Quickly add your cornstarch slurry and stir to thicken. It will turn into gravy very quickly after a few stirs.
- Serve over cooked rice and top with crunchy chow mein noodles.
Notes
If you want to add a can of bamboo shoots or water chestnuts, go right ahead. Make it your own! Change it up and use beef or pork too. If you use beef you can use beef broth to make a nice rich gravy.
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Easy Garlic Chicken Chow Mein - Instant Pot
Servings: 3 servings
Equipment
Ingredients
- 10 oz chicken breast cut into strips
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 small onion cut in half and sliced
- 1 Tbsp garlic minced (use less if you prefer)
- 2 cups chicken broth
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 5 oz sliced mushrooms, canned, drained (or 8 oz fresh) (optional)
- 6 ribs celery thick sliced
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch and some water to make a slurry
- chow mein noodles
- cooked white rice
Instructions
- Prep all of your ingredients: Peel and slice your onion, slice celery, then cut the chicken breast into strips. If you are using a 6 Qt pot, you can double all the ingredients. The cook time remains the same.
- Slice your celery on the bias (diagonally).
To Begin Cooking:
- Turn pot on Saute and wait for it to read Hot. Then add your olive oil and sesame oil. Put onions in the pot and cook for a minute. Then add garlic and stir making sure you down brown or burn the garlic.
- Now add your thinly sliced chicken. You don't need to cook it all the way through, you will be pressure cooking it next. Just saute it with the onions and garlic until the outside begins to turn white instead of pink. This will keep the chicken from sticking together during the cooking process and it will cook more evenly.
- Deglaze pot with broth and soy sauce. Now add the mushrooms.
- Add celery on top and do not stir the ingredients. Leave it layered with the celery on top. This will help the celery from getting overcooked.
- Pressure Cook for 1 min and QR. Open pot and stir. Your contents will be boiling when you open the pot. The thinly sliced chicken will be fully cooked and tender. (Don't add additional time because you don't think it will cook in just 1 min.)
- Quickly add your cornstarch slurry and stir to thicken. It will turn into gravy very quickly after a few stirs.
- Serve over cooked rice and top with crunchy chow mein noodles.
Notes
If you want to add a can of bamboo shoots or water chestnuts, go right ahead. Make it your own! Change it up and use beef or pork too. If you use beef you can use beef broth to make a nice rich gravy.
2 comments on “Garlic Chicken Chow Mein – Instant Pot”
I am a little confused about the chow mein noodles, are they cooked if so in what way ? how much etc? . I am not told anything to do except that they are there. Never made this before
Chow Mein Noodles are the classic dry crunchy noodles you sprinkle on top of your chow mein. Like I show in the photo. There is no cooking involved here. It’s just a topping.
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