Our easy Ninja Foodi pressure cooker chicken and rice recipe with cream of chicken soup, vegetables and chicken breasts can be made quick. It’s the best classic Campbells meal we love so much so that we have continued on with others like our Instant Pot Mexican Chicken and Rice too.
This amazingly Instant Pot chicken and rice recipe takes just 15 minutes to cook and prepare. Even my kids say it’s a great recipe. We love casseroles, this basic Campbells chicken and rice is from my childhood. Tt cooks a lot faster now! One of our favorite Instant Pot recipes!
Ninja Foodi Chicken and Rice Recipe
That is right, this is one of our favorite easy Ninja Foodi recipes too! You can make this in any brand you have at home. With this one in particular you will want to use the lid that is not attached and the pressure cook button.
I love cooking everything together at once. Makes it easier on days when I am just spent and allows us to eat together more often which I appreciate as a mom, a total win win.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
Instant Pot Chicken Breast and Rice
Adding vegetables to this quick and easy chicken recipe gives it great flavor, texture, and the more I include them in our dinners the more my kids like them. Of course you can omit if you wish. 😉
Seasoned with just some salt and black pepper, it’s so easy to throw together. I use frozen vegetables to make things easier. Now I generally use boneless skinless chicken breasts diced into bite size pieces. It’s the best way for this version, or our Instant Pot teriyaki chicken and rice dish.
Can you use chicken thighs?
Yes, if I find chicken thighs on sale I would use those instead. I find that thighs have more flavor and are more tender than the latter. I get lazy though and if bone-in is all I can find I will opt for whatever is boneless and a decent price.
Instant Pot Chicken and Rice with Frozen Chicken
Frozen Chicken and Rice Instant Pot works too but has to be cut into very small bite size pieces beforehand. Those pieces need to be separated before adding too. In the event that this isn’t done you would need to first follow the directions in our frozen chicken in the Instant Pot. Drain liquid, chop up meat, and add begin directions below skipping the initial saute step since it is precooked.
If they are lumped together just run under cool water and break apart. If you add into one big clump the middle pieces won’t have enough time to cook all the way thru and that is important. As far as rice, I like Jasmine personally. It has a better texture than just the cheaper long grain version and less expensive than Basmati.
If you are totally opposed to adding vegetables, just leave those out. Only like frozen peas? Just add those and omit the others. Cheese is a really great add in but of course if you need it to be dairy free, then leave that out too.
If you have ever make this, the one you see here is very similar. BUT this is cooked in my Instant Pot so timing and a few more ingredients were added to it. I ate something similar A LOT growing up with everything just dumped in a pot on the stove top. I really loved it and was made often because it was cheap. Pretty healthy Instant Pot dinner recipe too.
Add any other spices you enjoy, I add just a few myself. If you want to use fresh green beans and baby bellas follow the directions here for our Instant Pot chicken mushroom casserole.
The first step is to add your meat and set to saute. All multi cookers have the function except some are labeled brown/saute instead. It is important that your meat is diced into bite size pieces so it cooks evenly and remains tender.
Now the recipe reads with the chicken cut up into cubes so there shouldn’t be any issues any longer! A problem you may experience if you don’t follow the directions EXACTLY as they’re stated below is with the rice. Making Instant Pot white rice is the exception to this rule since there are no other ingredients other than water.
At first I was intimidated because I had never used one before. Now that I’ve tinkered with it I use it every day and share new pressure cooker recipes each week. They are all yummy and super simple to do like this one.
Ingredient Notes
You are going to want to use a cup of white rice (not instant white rice, we like Jasmine rice or long grain). This should be measured uncooked and added as such. You do not cook first, it all cooks together!
You want to have and use some Olive oil, use the good stuff (extra virgin) to saute the meat for a minute or so at the beginning.
Add Chicken breasts or you could use chicken thighs. If you want to use pork, you’d just need to dice small. Using precooked shredded chicken is possible too, just skip step 1 since it’s already cooked
Adding some Frozen vegetables are easiest, mixed, no defrosting necessary into the mix. I like the mixture that has green beans, peas and corn in it but that is up to you.
To make it creamy you will add a can of Cream of chicken soup or cream of mushroom could be used instead
Using Chicken broth or stock is best. You can use water but broth is so much better for this and our creamy Crock pot creamy chicken.
We will add at least 1 – 1/2 cup Cheese (optional but so good, we like sharp cheddar). Season the chicken with salt and pepper and I do like some diced onion in their, either yellow or white.
And of course you will need an Instant Pot or pressure cooker. I have a 6 qt., I HIGHLY suggest you get a non stick pot too!
I have used rotisserie chicken vs. raw chicken – just use 2 breasts and dice the chicken up, then skip the first step where the chicken is browned, just put it into the bottom of the pot . Add other vegetables and we have used are shared in our Instant Pot chicken broccoli rice recipe.
Below a quick step by step but I also have a printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. Put bite size chicken and diced onions into pot with some olive oil and set to saute. Cook outsides just enough so pink is gone (insides will still be raw and that is okay) Turn pot off now.
How Long to Cook Chicken and Rice in Instant Pot
Add ingredients and then sprinkle in uncooked white rice but DO NOT stir in, just gently submerge into the liquid at the top. Close lid and steam valve and set to high for 9 minutes. Allow steam to release naturally for 3 minutes and then open steam valve to pressure release the rest of the way.
I suggest the small natural release at the end to make the rice so tender and fluffy! Chicken is always tender, flavorful, and who doesn’t love a one pot meal?? I haven’t made it with brown rice yet but others have, comments for that method are below.
FAQ
Yes!! If you want to make this using noodles instead of rice follow our pressure cooker chicken noodle casserole directions. Ready to make our cream of mushroom chicken and rice dish? Yes you can throw in quartered fresh mushrooms too!
Yes really any of the Campbells condensed soup flavors work with this. If you prefer their cream of mushroom vs. cream of chicken use that. There is cream of celery and potato out there too but those aren’t as widely used.
When there’s not enough thin cooking liquid in a pressure cooker it may not be able to generate enough steam to come up to pressure. The bottom of the pot will become too hot triggering burn on Instant Pot. To avoid this do NOT stir rice into the mixture, instead gently submerge into the liquid on the top.
I will say I actually love reheated chicken and rice the next day for lunch. It reheats well in the microwave in about 1 minute, I would recommend stirring halfway thru for best results though.
Pressure Cooker Chicken and Rice Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken breasts, boneless skinless breasts or thighs – cut into bite size cubes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 small onions, diced, optional
- 1 can cream of chicken soup, or cream of mushroom
- 1 cup frozen vegetables, mixed variety
- 1 cup white rice, not instant, best if you use long grain white rice
- 1 tsp garlic salt, optional
- 2 cup chicken broth, could use water
- 1/2 cup cheese, cheddar, shredded, optional
Instructions
- Put cubed chicken pieces and diced onions into Instant Pot with olive oil and set to saute, cook until chicken is cooked on the outside and no longer pink (will continue to cook in next step so outside just needs to be cooked/white in color). Turn pot off!
- Sprinkle with seasonings. In a small bowl combine the cream of chicken soup, and broth whisk together until smooth, then stir in frozen vegetables. Pour this into your pressure cooker. Stir together WELL until clumps of cream of chicken are smoothed out.
- Sprinkle rice on top and DO NOT Stir!! Just gently press down so grains are slightly submerged.
- Put lid on Instant Pot, close steam valve and set to manual, high pressure for 9 minutes. (10 is fine too if you want rice a bit softer)
- Allow to naturally release for 3 minutes when done, let out rest of steam, and carefully lift lid. Add cheese now and stir until melted or serve topped with cheese.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Now if you want to make this with a sausage link, try our Instant Pot sausage and rice recipe! Print the recipe below and enjoy!
Want to make crockpot chicken and rice?? We have done that too and is great to try both, though this one is faster. For both I modified the recipe I found here but adjusted some ingredients and the time as well for it to come out moist and ensuring the cooked rice was fluffy.
Other easy pressure cooker recipes with chicken you’ll love
Try our cheesy Instant Pot chicken parmesan casserole is a family favorite. We love our Pressure cooker crack chicken casserole too. Spicy honey Instant Pot chicken is a popular dinner idea
- Pressure cooker frozen whole chicken
- White rice goes great with our Instant Pot spicy teriyaki chicken on top
Want to make this in your Ninja Foodi too? Of course we’ve done that. The timing and high pressure isn’t any different. You use the lid that is not attached to cook and the pressure cook button.
My mom used to make a chicken broccoli rice casserole with cream of mushroom that we all devoured. I’ve never made it, because I’m the only one who would eat it — but I crave it from time to time. So when I saw this recipe, and the healthier Pacific Foods condensed soup in stores, I had to make it, with boneless skinless chicken thighs, broth, condensed mushroom soup, and frozen broccoli florets. Oh yum, is that just like I remember!! I made it “wrong” though — whisked the broth and soup together in the pot, used food scissors to cut the thighs into chunks right over it, and sprinkled garlic and onion powders and salt on that (because I don’t know what “1/2 onions” means and didn’t have fresh onions anyway), put in the frozen broccoli and stirred. Then I put it in the rice but instead of gently pressing down on the grains, I spooned the liquid over them. 😁
so glad it was a hit
I am new to Instant Pot! If I double doni automatically double the cook time?
No, just the texture may not be as pleasing with double contents. Timing should remain the same but likely double won’t fit properly as you cannot put more contents than the fill line inside.