Instant Pot Sweet Garlic Chicken Recipe - juicy chicken thighs in a brown sugar garlic sauce, cooked in 7 minutes in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. Quick, easy and so tasty!
INSTANT POT SWEET GARLIC CHICKEN
Lately, I have been switching all of my slow cooker recipe to my Instant Pot, digital pressure cooker. I love the fact that I don't have to do much prep ahead of time or figure out when to set the slow cooker to have the dish done in time for dinner. The Instant Pot makes it so easy to whip up dinner in just minutes!
This Instant Pot Sweet Garlic Chicken is so easy to make, as it requires only a few ingredients that you most likely already have in your fridge and pantry. Boneless, skinless chicken thighs cooked to perfection in the brown sugar garlic sauce. I serve this chicken dish with mashed potatoes and roasted veggies or simple salad
HOW TO MAKE SWEET GARLIC CHICKEN IN INSTANT POT?
This Sweet Garlic Chicken is very simple to make. I like to saute the chicken thighs in a little bit of oil in the Instant Pot to brown it a little bit and add texture. Next, pour over the sauce mixture, close the lid and set the timer of your Instant Pot to 7 minutes. Let the pressure release naturally. Remove the chicken from Instant Pot onto a serving platter. Thicken the sauce with a flour or cornstarch slurry and cook on saute setting. Pour over chicken and serve.
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One note on thickening the sauce: what you see in the picture is a sauce thickened with flour. I switch between flour and cornstarch, depending on what I have on hand at the time. I do prefer cornstarch as it makes clear and glazy sauce. Use what you like or have in your pantry.
MORE INSTANT POT CHICKEN RECIPES:
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Instant Pot Sweet Garlic Chicken
Ingredients
- 5 to 6 boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 3 garlic cloves
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
- Make sure the stainless steel insert is in your Instant Pot.
- Press "saute" setting. Add butter to insert and let melt.
- Place chicken thighs in Instant Pot and brown on both sides for a few minutes. The chicken does not need to be fully cooked. Just brown it a bit to add texture. Press "cancel/off" button.
- In a measuring cup, whisk together ¼ cup of water, soy sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper. Add grated garlic cloves. Pour sauce over chicken.
- Close lid of the Instant Pot, switch the valve to "sealing" position.
- Press "manual" setting and adjust timer to 7 minutes. The Instant Pot will beep and start coming to pressure.
- When the timer is done, the Instant Pot will beep. Press "off/cancel" button. Do not release pressure. Let the pressure release naturally. When the done, carefully open the lid.
- Remove chicken onto a serving platter.
- In a measuring cup, whisk together flour and water to make a slurry.
- Press "saute" setting on Instant Pot, add slurry to sauce and cook until thickens. Turn off the Instant Pot.
- Pour sauce over chicken and serve.
Melanie says
My husband and our company said this was amazing and raved it was the best chicken dish they've ever had. So I'd say this was a huge hit!
Sara Allen says
I came across looking for something new for my family and it was a hit with them all. I used chicken breast instead of thighs (we don't like the taste of thigh meat). I didn't have any apple cider vinegar so I put in some Red wine vinegar and it turned out amazing. I didn't put as much of the apple cider called. All in all an amazing recipe will be making it again for my family 🙂
Anna says
That's wonderful! Thank you so much for making my recipe and for the comment, Sara!
Nancy K says
This recipe was so good! Definitely a do-over. I doubled the recipe, added 1 minute, and it came out perfectly. Thank you for the recipe.
Cara E Finney says
Can I make this recipe with chicken breasts? It looks delicious but my family don't like chicken thighs.
Anna says
That should work!
Dawn says
Yes I did. My family likes the chicken shredded. I also used Truvia in lieu of full brown sugar to cut down on the calories and turned out great.
Lis says
OMG!! This is so good!! I don't have an insert for my instant pot to make the rice so I just put it in with the chicken and sauce. It came out perfect!!
Beth says
I added a trivet and put two cups of jasmine rice with two cups of water in a cake pan on top of the chicken. Cooked the rice at the same time. When I opened it the rice and chicken was cooked perfectly. Microwaved some Asian veggies and tossed those in with the corn starch slurry and boom. Easy Chinese food!!
Barbara Schieving says
It looks delicious! Thanks for linking to my recipe.
Debbie says
What if I want to double the recipe? Same time? Thank you for the recipe!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Hi Debbie! I would add 2 more minutes. Let me know how it goes!
Debbie says
Thanks Anna, I tried it last night with single recipe and they loved it. My daughter asked this morning if was going to make the other batch today! Its sooo good. Was surprised with just the few ingredients at how tasty this is. Will definitely need to double this next time so will add the additional minutes. Thanks again.
Erika says
if the thighs have bones, how long would you suggest setting instapot for?
Chrissie says
I'm obsessed with garlic and this recipe is SO good!!
jessica says
breaking out my instant pot for this!
amanda says
Gahhh, this makes me want an instant pot! My boys would love this!
Toni says
This looks really delicious! I am sure this will be a hit for dinner in my house!
Des says
Loving these flavors and that it is so quickly made in the IP.
Amanda says
Love sweet garlic flavors... definitely trying this soon!!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Thank you, Amanda! I hope you love it!
averie says
You have so many instant pot recipes! They all look wonderful!
Anna@CrunchyCreamySweet says
Thank you, Averie! I am totally obsessed with my IP! 😀