This Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup is a fast and simple way to make a big pot of soup right in your electric pressure cooker. It's the perfect comfort food that the whole family will love!
I make more soups in my Instant Pot than any other dishes. Our favorites include Instant Pot Vegetable Soup, White Chicken Chili and Corn Chowder with Bacon.
My favorite way to make a big pot of comforting, hot soup that's loaded with veggies, meat and noodles or rice, is to add all of the ingredients to my Instant Pot and let it do its magic. This Chicken Noodle Soup is comforting and delicious and exactly what you need on a chilly day or when you are feeling under the weather. You can feed your whole family with this recipe or save leftovers for up to 4 days in the fridge.
Ingredients:
- wide egg noodles
- chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces
- carrots
- garlic
- onion
- celery
- chicken stock and water
- seasoning
Instructions:
- Start by heating up oil on the saute setting. Add onion and garlic and saute for a 1 minute. Add diced chicken and Italian seasoning and cook, stirring often, until almost done.
- Add onion, carrots and celery and stir well.
- Add remaining ingredients (liquid, noodles). Place lid on your Instant Pot and set the valve to "sealing" position. Cook on HIGH pressure for 6 minutes.
- Once done, turn off the Instant Pot, wait a few minutes and then switch the valve to venting.
What to serve it with?
This soup is perfect served with my Homemade Drop Biscuits or these Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits.
Can I use frozen chicken to make this soup?
If using frozen chicken, your cooking time needs to increase. That would turn the noodles to mush. Cook the chicken first for 10 minutes, then add veggies and noodles and cook for 5 minutes.
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Can I use pre-cooked chicken in this recipe?
Yes! You can use already cooked chicken, shredded or cubed. Simply add chicken to sauteed garlic and onion and season with Italian seasoning. No need to cook it since it is done, so you are saving time here. This will make it flavorful. Follow the remaining steps to make soup.
Variations:
- creamy soup: add 1 cup of half and half to cooked soup and stir.
- vegetable soup: use vegetable stock or broth and skip chicken. Add mushrooms instead. Pressure cook for 4 minutes.
- with rice: follow my Instant Pot Chicken and Rice Soup recipe.
- with dumplings: skip the noodles and add dumplings (homemade or cut up buttermilk biscuit dough) and cook for 7 minutes.
More easy soup recipes:
- Chicken Tortilla Soup
- White Chicken Chili
- Potato Soup
- Instant Pot Soup Recipes Roundup (all in one place)
Check out my Instant Pot Guide for Beginners, filled with all the info you need to get started with your new appliance! Seeing BURN message on your IP? Read my Instant Pot Burn Message post to learn why and how to save your dish.
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Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 1 cup chopped yellow onion
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breast cut into 1" cubes see note
- 2 teaspoon Italian seasoning or fresh poultry herb blend
- 2 cup diced carrots
- 4 celery ribs diced
- 3 cup wide egg noodles dry, not yet cooked
- 4 cups chicken stock or broth
- 3 cup water
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- On Instant Pot, press "saute" button. After 1 minute, add olive oil to IP insert. Wait 1 minute, then add onion and garlic. Saute, stirring often, for 1 minute. Add carrots and celery and saute for 2 minutes. Add diced chicken and Italian seasoning and cook, stirring often, until almost done.
- Add remaining ingredients, making sure the noodles are just covered with liquid.
- Cover the IP with lid and set the pressure valve to "sealing" position. Newer models do it on their own.
- Press "manual" and set the timer to 6 minutes. Make sure your Instant Pot is set to high pressure. The pressure cooker will beep and start coming to pressure, which can take about 12 minutes.
- When the cooking time is up, press the "cancel/off" button. Let the pressure release naturally for 5 minutes (to let the foam from cooking noodles to fall), then quick release any remaining pressure by switching the valve to venting position.
- Carefully open the lid, away from your face. Stir the soup. Let cool and serve. Adjust seasoning as needed.
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Notes
- The noodles cook when the soup cooks. No need to cook them beforehand.
- You can use 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs instead of chicken breast.
- Please note, that the nutrition value can vary denpending on what product you use. The information below is an estimate.
- The original recipe called for half of the amount of ingredients. I increase the values after some readers commented that the recipe does not make enough soup.
Nutrition
This recipe was originally published in 2017 and updated on March 11th, 2020.
Diane says
This soup recipe looks so amazingggggg! Definitely adding this to the list, thanks for the inspiration love.
Diane says
Do you have a recommendation for how long to pressure cook chicken bones to make stock?
Lisa says
How do you let the pressure release naturally?
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Hi Lisa! When the Instant Pot beeps when it's done cooking, press "off/cancel". Don't turn the valve but let it release the pressure by itself. After some time, the silver peg next to the valve will fall inside. That's when you know the pressure has been released completely. I hope this helps!
Terri says
I would like to double this recipe. What kind of adjustments do I need to make? I’m new to the instant pot 🙂
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Hi Terri! If you double the recipe, it will take a little longer for it to come to pressure but the cook time should be the same. Also, my IP is 6 quart and I would not go over the 3 mark in the insert. I hope this helps!
Sydney says
Terri, how did it go doubling the recipe?
Cazandra says
If I am doubling the recipe does the time increase as well?
Stephanie says
Sort of a dumb question, but the chicken is precooked right? Cook the chicken then dice and add to Instant Pot?
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Hi Stephanie! As the instructions say, you have to cook the chicken in the IP on the saute setting. See step 1. I hope this helps!
Heather says
I wondered the same thing - I only see the paragraph directions, not a list. I’m thinking dice it raw. But I bet if you had cooked chicken (maybe prepped a bunch for a couple recipes) it’d work just fine, I just wouldn’t sauté it again.
Tina says
Can't you just put all broth in and not use water? Seems like it would give it more flavor.
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Hi Tina! Absolutely! Just make sure it's low-sodium. Hope this helps!
Nadine says
Coming from PA Dutch country, I love chicken noodle soup...The broth in my soup was not nice and yellow like the photo. I would definitely make this again using real chicken stock and add a can of niblets corn ala PA Dutch style. Yum
Cathy says
I'm totally trying this THIS WEEK! Just got an Instant Pot - woo hoo!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Awesome! I hope you love it, Cathy!
Krista says
I love what you can create in an instant pot! I have got to try it out!
Allyson Zea says
Totally sending this to my IP loving friends! Looks so good!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Thank you so much, Allyson!
carrie says
Chicken noodle soup is one of our favorite comfort meals! 🙂 This looks amazing, & I love how quickly it comes together in the Instant Pot.
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
I agree! So perfect when all you want is comfort food. Thanks, Carrie!
Amy says
Wow! This looks so good! I am going to have to try this one out!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Thank you, Amy! Enjoy!
Dorothy says
Nothing warms you up and makes you feel cozy quite like chicken noodle soup!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
I agree! Thanks, Dorothy!
Amanda says
So perfect for this time of year!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Right? 😀 Thanks, Amanda!
Peyton says
OMGoodness! I was feeling like I was coming down with a cold and I really wanted some chicken noodle soup. I looked on Pinterest for an easy recipe and found yours. It was easy to make and I feel better. Thank you for the recipe and for your other soup recipes as well. I will be making soups a couple of times a week as meals for myself. Blessings to you!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Hi Peyton! Yay! That's awesome! I hope you are feeling better soon!
Kalyn says
That looks delicious; I bet it would be a hit! Thanks for the shout-out for my Instant Pot Low-Carb Instant Pot Loaded Cauliflower Soup and the round-up of Low-Carb Instant Pot Soups!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Thank you, Kalyn!