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.
Gail says
I am making this in a stove top pressure cooker and am confused. You say to times six minutes and it’ll take about 12 minutes to come up to pressure and then you release it so do you only cook it with the heat on for six minutes or do you time six minutes once it comes up to pressure? I don’t want to have mushy noodles but I want the chicken to be cooked. Please advise as soon as possible ; it is on the stove right now.
Anna says
Hi Gail! I am not familiar with a stovetop pressure cooker. The instructions are for the Instant Pot.
Ann says
Start timing when the pressure value starts rocking.
Denise Anslover says
Try this today cooked for amount of time specified but my noodles turned out rather mushy made another pot cook time for 2 minutes less hopefully that'll turn out better. The flavor was really good though.
joan e. dugan says
Cook your noodles separately then when you serve add
them to your bowl.
Arpita says
Home sick this week and my boyfriend bought me my first Instant Pot – this was my very first recipe I tried with it! OMG – amazing! So easy, delicious, and healthy. Only substitution I made was adding extra low-sodium chicken broth. I’m not a big fan of cooking as I get frustrated when something does not come out perfect, but this will give me the courage to try so much and enjoy it! Thank you
Suzy says
We love comfort food like this! So tasty! Making it in the instant pot is such a great idea!
Anna says
Exactly! It's so quick!
wilhelmina says
This soup turned out so well in my Instant Pot! Loved it!
Anna says
Thank you, Wilhelmina!
Krissy Allori says
It's hard to beat a good chicken noodle soup. Unless, it's a good chicken noodle soup that you can make really fast. Love this recipe!
Stephanie says
I don’t care for celery and thinking of omitting it. Will this change the flavor too much, though? I’m planning on making this next week 🥰
Anna says
Hi Stephanie! You can skip the celery if you don't like it. The soup will still be delicious!
Stephanie says
Thank you, Anna!!
Brenda says
Loved the soup but doesn’t make enough we eat a lot of soup
I will try to double the recipe, any suggestions?
Anna says
Hi Brenda! You can easily double the recipe. Cooking time stays the same.
Kari says
How much is a serving?
Sara Quinn says
I was so sick last week. Normally, I'll just open up some Campbell's, but I just got the Ninja Foodie and was itching to use it. This recipe was the perfect amount of comfort and seasoning. I loved it and it was easy for my first meal in the Foodie. No more Campbell's for me. Thank you!!
Paula says
This was my first soup attempt in my instant pot. I had some rotisserie chicken to use up as well as the veggies from my CSA. This was so easy!! My hubby came home for lunch right as I took the lid off. Served it up and he loved it! Will be my go to recipe from now on. So easy and so good. Thx for sharing!!
Anna says
Hi Paula! That's wonderful! I am so glad you both enjoy the soup. Thank you for trying my recipe! I hope you will make more of my Instant Pot soup recipes. Have a beautiful weekend!
Natasha says
MMMM this warms my soul! Love how easy it is in the instant pot
Kristyn says
My favorite homemade soup! Such a classic & full of flavor! Now, I need a chill in the air, a blanket, & some of this!
Sara Welch says
What a delicious recipe! I am adding this to my dinner line up for the week! Yum!
Toni says
This was really amazing! My kind of comfort food!
Jennifer says
Love, love, love Chicken Noodle Soup.. especially for fall!