Enjoy your favorite orange chicken right from home when you make this easy Instant Pot Orange Chicken Recipe!
It’s time to make your favorite orange chicken Instant Pot easy! There’s no need to hassle with heading out to Panda Express for takeout when you can make your own copycat Orange Chicken right in your own kitchen.
All you need is 3 ingredients to make this Instant Pot Orange Chicken Recipe. It really doesn’t much easier than 3 ingredients in an Instant Pot!
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Instant Pot Orange Chicken Recipe
What Your Frugal Friends Are Saying About This Recipe…
Kelly writes: “This was soooooooo good 😋”
Stephanie writes: “The sauce has a little kick to it, so I didn’t add the pepper flakes 🙂 But it was another dinner hit.”
Instant Pot Orange Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 pounds Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast cut into 1″ cubes {fresh or thawed}
- 20.75 ounces Panda Express Orange Sauce {1 bottle}
- 1/3 cup Water
- Optional: ⅛ teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes
Instructions
- Pour 1/2 cup of Orange Sauce into measuring cup, stir in Red Pepper Flakes, and set aside to drizzle on chicken after it has finished cooking.
- Mix remaining sauce and 1/3 cup water in medium mixing bowl.
- Placed cubed Chicken into Instant Pot, and pour sauce mixture from bowl over chicken, then stir together.
- Secure lid on Instant Pot, select “Meat/Stew” setting, select “High Pressure,” and change cooking time to 6 minutes.
- Preheat will start 10 seconds after settings are selected.
- Once Chicken is done, Quick Release pressure before removing lid.
- Remove Chicken from Instant Pot and discard excess liquid.
- Serve Chicken over a bed of rice, and drizzle with remaining 1/2 cup of sauce you had set aside.
Notes
*If using a Crock Pot Pressure Cooker, select the "Beans/Chili" setting to manually override cook time and pressure settings.
What You’ll Need to Make This Instant Pot Orange Chicken Recipe:
Instant Pot 6 quart Pressure Cooker
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Rebecca says
How would you make this as a crockpot meal?
Heidi says
Hi Rebecca ~ here is a Crockpot version of a Panda Express Chicken you could try… https://diythrill.com/2017/08/27/panda-express-orange-chicken-recipe/
Kellie says
Hi! Would I be able to put the chicken breasts in whole and cut them after they are cooked?
Heidi says
Hi Kellie ~ you definitely could make them that way, thought you’ll need to alter the cook time a bit.
Rebecca Dillon says
Oooh. This sounds great. I love that you can make it an instant pot!!
Heidi says
Thanks, Rebecca! And yes… it’s so nice how fast it’s done thanks to the pressure cooker! 🙂