Pressure Cooker Chicken Quinoa Casserole

This easy pressure cooker chicken quinoa casserole is healthy and yummy! I’ll show you a simple Instant Pot chicken cabbage soup recipe too!

If you’re looking for a few healthy electric pressure cooker recipes, this may become a new favorite. Everyone in my family knows that I’m kinda’ obsessed with my fancy multi cooker since they first came out almost 2 years ago.

You can make it in a Crockpot Express or as an easy Ninja Foodi recipe too. Doesn’t matter the brand as long as it has the high pressure function.

Ever since then I’ve experimented with just about every type of meat, made side dishes, and even yummy desserts!

Instant Pot Chicken and Quinoa

So……when my cousin got one recently she too started experimenting and adapted my Instant Pot stuffed cabbage casserole into her own version using more veggies and quinoa instead of rice.

Of course we all tweak recipes to make it suit our tastes but I used her basic instructions and cooked it up myself tonight…it was yummy!

She was unsure how to cook quinoa inside this dish so hers came out like an Instant Pot chicken cabbage soup (similar to what you see below).

Then she cooked her quinoa separately, drained the liquid and put her chicken cabbage creation on top (picture of hers at the bottom of this post).

SO…..that is the FIRST way you could make this:

• Make the perfect quinoa in your Instant Pot, slow cooker, or on the stove top
• Then cook this recipe stopping after step 6 of the recipe below, use only 1 3/4 c. chicken broth
• Serve vegetable/chicken/cabbage mixture on top of quinoa

The SECOND way you could make and serve this is:

• Make this as Instant Pot chicken cabbage soup
  • Make recipe below as stated with 2.5 c. chicken broth
  • Stop when the initial cooking is done, step 6
  • Do not add quinoa or cook a second time

Serve as soup and enjoy!

Pressure cooker chicken quinoa casserole

This is the 3rd method:

1. Chicken – I used chicken thighs (I feel they are more tender and have more flavor) but you could use chicken breasts
   1. If you have leftover sous vide chicken you can dice that up and use it too
2. Cabbage
3. Fresh green beans
4. Celery
5. Chicken broth
6. Onion
7. Traditional quinoa (not quick style) – this is what I used
8. Garlic – minced in jar is what I use
9. Lots of spices – add more or omit any

I like to make everything in one pot if possible. Typically I make a lot of Instant Pot casseroles but this was the first with quinoa.

It turned out great. Of course everyone likes a bit different consistency/stiffness when it comes to rice and quinoa I feel but 4 minutes was perfect for us.

I will also say that the vegetables and cabbage are soft when done.

Here was the inspiration and where it all started!!

She is a rockstar for creating this as a newbie.

As you can see it was served on top of quinoa that was cooked separately…..so if you don’t like to cook everything together this is a great option (she used chicken breasts also, thus the difference in appearance).

Ready??

Here’s our pesto chicken quinoa casserole made in our 6 qt. Instant Pot!

Of course you can make it in larger pots and if so you could increase the amount of cabbage inside.

• 1/3 of a head cubed was enough for mine so I didn’t fill it more than 3/4 of the way full. If you do overfill with cabbage it may not reach pressure at all.

After you’ve tried this you should try our pressure cooker breakfast quinoa recipe too.