Recipe: Tasty Orange Chicken - Instant Pot

Orange Chicken - Instant Pot.

You can cook Orange Chicken - Instant Pot using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Orange Chicken - Instant Pot

1. You need 2 lbs of chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces.
2. Prepare 2 Tbsp of oil.
3. It's 1/4 c of orange juice.
4. It's 1/3 of White or yellow onion chopped large.
5. You need of sauce.
6. Prepare 3/4 c of orange juice.
7. Prepare 1 of tbps hot sauce or taco sauce.
8. It's 1 of tbps white wine.
9. You need 1/3-1/2 c of tomato sauce.
10. You need 1/4 c of soy sauce.
11. You need 1 tbsp of curry and ginger powder mixed as you see fit.
12. You need 1/4 c of sugar.
13. It's 1/4 c of brown sugar.
14. You need of Orange zest.
15. Prepare of thickener.
16. You need 2-3 tbsp of cornstarch.
17. You need 2 Tbsp of orange juice.
18. Prepare of garnish.
19. You need 1/2 c of cashews.
20. You need of Green onion - chopped.
21. You need of Orange zest.
22. It's of rice.
23. It's of Make some white rice or brown rice or a rice packet.
24. It's of Enough rice to be happy.

Orange Chicken - Instant Pot step by step

1. Dry chicken breasts with paper towels, make them dry. Don't skip this. Chop chicken into 1-2in chunks..
2. Turn instant pot to saute on high (more). When it is at Hot, add the oil, chopped onion and chopped chicken. Stir constantly until chicken is just browned on all sides..
3. Add the 1/4c orange juice and deglaze the pot with a wooden spoon. When done, cancel the instant pot..
4. Add the sauce ingredients to sauteed chicken. Add everything under sauce section and stir until combined and over all chicken pieces..
5. Manual pressure cook for 6 minutes. Natural release 10-12 minutes. While your waiting, make the thickener... Mix the cornstarch and orange juice until all clumps are gone. More cornstarch equals thicker sauce..
6. Release the pressure and turn back on saute mode (low or normal now). Add the cashews from garnish section. Slowly mix in thickener slurry and stir while cooking for 2-3 minutes until sauce is thick..
7. Turn off instant pot. Let sit for 5-7 minutes..
8. Spoon over there rice and add green onion and zest as final garnish when serving. Enjoy it inside your face..