Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken Recipe

Instant Pot teriyaki chicken with bottled sauce with 3 ingredients is easy. Make with thighs or breasts, it’s a really healthy pressure cooker recipe that’s cheap served with rice. Add a bit of pineapple for extra flavor and your kids will love it too.

Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken with Bottled Sauce Recipe

Make some rice and you are set with a great and healthy meal that everyone in my family enjoys. You could add some onion into the pot too if you desire but we stuck with chunk pineapple and sauce to make ours. That way you get this sweet and tangy sauce with your meat swimming inside. The fruit gives you a bit of texture to it too.

in Ninja Foodi

You can make this in a Crockpot Express or a Ninja Foodi recipe as well. They all have the pressure cook function so it doesn’t matter the brand. Brown is the same as the saute button which you will use to brown your meat at first if you wish, and with the Foodi you’ll use the lid that is not attached.

Maybe it is because I was born in Hawaii but I love anything teriyaki! I could put this sauce on just about any piece of meat and it just tastes amazing. Just like any other recipe you can add or omit what you love or don’t prefer to have added.

Cooking Tips

With this one you could add a bit or a lot of heat into the mix if you so chose to do so. I would suggest using either Sriracha or some red pepper flakes to do this. Be light handed at first so you don’t go to a level you cannot handle.

You save yourself a step by cutting the chicken into chunks before adding it to the Instant Pot / pressure cooker too. This does a few things such as make it easier to serve up later, and get the sauce to soak in better since there is less surface area.

3 Ingredients

1. Jar of Teriyaki sauce / marinade – this Veri Veri Teriyaki is our favorite, not too thick and great taste
   1. do not use thick sugary sauces in IP, it will burn
      1. this is what burn on Instant Pot means and how to prevent it
      2. I use this same sauce for oven baked teriyaki chicken thighs too
2. Boneless skinless chicken breasts – diced into bite size pieces. You really could use thighs if you prefer, I have, it’s totally up to you.
3. Chunk pineapple – just use the small can for this, or a snack pack works too

Optional Add Ins

1. Jasmine rice – this is how to make the perfect Instant Pot white rice
   1. or on top of brown rice
   2. if you wanted a lower carb bed you could make cauliflower rice too
2. Cornstarch slurry (optional if you want to thicken sauce at the end)
3. Diced green onions are optional

with homemade sauce

If you do have a bit more time to make homemade teriyaki sauce the cook time will not vary. You will just need the following ingredients. 

1. Chicken broth
2. Soy sauce, regular or low sodium soy sauce is okay
3. Minced garlic and ginger
4. Brown sugar
5. Hoisin sauce and rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
6. Cornstarch if you want to thicken it
7. Sesame seeds for top are optional

If you were say using leftover Whole Chicken at 350 you wouldn’t need to cook with high pressure at all, you would just sautee it. With raw, you just throw it all in, lock the lid, and in a few minutes you’re set to enjoy.

We all need a few recipes “in our pocket” that only use a few ingredients and take less than 15 minutes. You know for those evenings when you only have an hour in between soccer practice and homework….we’re there a lot. 😉 This is one of those! I used to make it on my stovetop but this is better.

with Frozen Chicken

Ok so you are in a rush and forgot to defrost your meat. No problem I am here to help. You do want your pieces to be separated. If they are in a large chunk, run under some cool water and pull them apart. Sit into your pot with your sauce and pineapple if you like and seal the lid. Cook 4-5 medium boneless breasts for 12 minutes with a 10 minute natural release. Open, shred meat and enjoy this way!

Just follow the directions in our spicy teriyaki Instant Pot chicken recipe for the amount of each ingredient you’d need. You can skip the spicy and keep it mild too if you prefer.

How to Make Teriyaki Chicken in a Pressure Cooker

• If making homemade teriyaki whisk ingredients in a bowl.
• Dice and add the chicken pieces into your pot.
• Pour in bottled teriyaki sauce in, or the sauce you made on top.
• Stir contents.
• Cook the chicken on high pressure for 3 minutes
• Wait a minute once it ends and then do a quick release
• Open the lid and thicken sauce if you like by whisking 1 tbsp cornstarch with hot liquid and add into pot on saute function to bubble

FAQ

In this case it is cooked together but you can add more when done and served too. I haven’t tried it together but imagine if you had a trivet on top of the rice with your chicken and sauce in an approved pot it would be fine in 12 minutes on high. Here is a slow cooker teriyaki chicken recipe if you’d like to try that too.

• Honey Instant Pot chicken is sweet with a bit of heat if you want to add some
• This Instant Pot teriyaki ribs recipe uses this teriyaki sauce too and comes out so tender and juicy you’ll never cook ribs any other way again
• For some similar flavors, cooked differently, you can make a batch of air fryer teriyaki chicken.