3 Minute Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken

This easy Instant Pot teriyaki chicken takes just 3 minutes to cook and is so tender when it’s done! It’s a really healthy pressure cooker chicken recipe that’s inexpensive and flavorful too served with rice. Add a bit of pineapple for extra flavor and your kids will love it too.

Teriyaki Chicken InstaPot

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.

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.

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.

You save yourself a step by cutting my chicken into chunks before adding it to my Instant Pot / pressure cooker too.

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. 😉

Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken

1. Jar of Teriyaki 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

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.

1. Chunk pineapple – we like this one
2. Jasmine rice – this is how to make the perfect Instant Pot white rice
   1. or on top of brown rice
3. Cornstarch slurry (optional if you want to thicken sauce at the end)
4. Diced green onions are optional

Of course you could make your own teriyaki sauce using brown sugar and a few other ingredients but if you really need a quick throw together Instant Pot chicken recipes this is perfect.

It only takes about 3 minutes to cook once you throw everything in there.

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. 

Homemade teriyaki sauce recipe

1. Chicken broth
2. Soy sauce
3. Minced garlic and ginger
4. Brown sugar
5. Hoisin sauce
6. Cornstarch if you want to thicken it
7. Sesame seeds for top are optional

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.

Here are a few other of the best Instant Pot recipes you will love

• Instant Pot shredded chicken uses pineapple as well
• Spicy 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 and air fryer chicken katsu too if you want to try that next.

Pressure cooker teriyaki chicken

You can see just how much teriyaki sauce the chicken soaked up just by the color of it!

The pressure cooker does all the work for you which is great. Your whole meal will be done in about 10 minutes total and can be done in a Ninja Foodi too.

Great lunch option for me who works at home. If I need a quick meal I know all 5 of us will enjoy this is my go to recipe

InstaPot teriyaki chicken

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 are the basic steps to make our pressure cooked chicken with a sweet and savory sauce.

• If making homemade teriyaki whisk ingredients in a bowl.
• Dice and add chicken into your pot.
• Pour in bottled or the sauce you made on top.
• Stir contents.

Close lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 3 minutes. If adding more than 3 med. diced chicken breasts you may need to increase time to 4-5 minutes

• Wait a minute once it ends and then do a quick release
• Open the lid and if you’d like sauce a bit thicker whisk 1 tbsp cornstarch with hot liquid and add into pot on saute

Here is a slow cooker teriyaki chicken recipe if you’d like to try that too.