Want to make this take out favourite at home? Well now you can! Skip the take out and make this Instant Pot Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken at home!
Instant Pot Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken
What’s your go to chicken order when ordering wings? Mine is almost always honey garlic. In my books, you cannot go wrong with honey garlic and if a restaurant messes up something as simple as honey garlic, then it’s not worth returning.
As a honey garlic fiend, I’m honestly surprised I didn’t share this spicy honey garlic chicken recipe on the blog earlier! I’ve shared a similar recipe with scallops but this chicken version in the Instant Pot is honestly the easiest thing ever! Other than a little browning to start and thickening the sauce at the end, this Instant Pot Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken recipe is pretty hands off and takes only a couple minutes to put together.
Similar recipe to try: Instant Pot Chicken Teriyaki
What You Need To Make This Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken in the Instant Pot
- chicken breast
- honey
- soy sauce
- sriracha
- chicken stock
- olive oil
- salt & pepper
- garlic
- cornstarch
- chili flakes
How To Make This Instant Pot Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken
- Start off by dicing your chicken into cubes and set aside.
- In a measuring cup or large bowl, mix together your honey, soy sauce, sriracha, and chicken stock. Set aside.
- On sauté mode (medium or high is fine), add some olive oil to your Instant Pot and add your chicken cubes into the pot.
- Add salt & pepper to taste to your chicken and let the chicken brown slightly. This helps to seal in the moisture. If you are in a hurry, you can skip this step.
- Add in crush garlic cloves.
- Add in the spicy honey garlic mixture. Put the lid on your Instant Pot, set the valve to sealing, then pressure cook for 6 minutes.
- Once done, quick release your Instant Pot, remove the chicken, and add a cornstarch slurry (1:1 cornstarch to liquid ratio), and set it to sauté (low) to thicken up your sauce. Return the chicken to the pot once thicken to coat the meat.
- When ready to serve, sprinkle on some chili pepper flakes to add a little bit more spice to the dish. Top with green onions as garnish if you wish.
Tips and Notes on Making Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken in the Instant Pot
- You can also skip dicing up the chicken and cooking it whole instead. After cooking, you can shred the chicken breasts and put it back in the sauce to coat.
- To make this Instant Pot honey garlic chicken recipe into a meal prep: I added rice to this to bring it to work with me. You can also toss some vegetables into the sauce, before thickening and cook under pressure for 0-1 minute to steam the veggies in the sauce! I stored my meal prep in these airtight containers.
- Make this into a dump and go freezer meal: in a freezer bag, add your chicken and sauce. Once ready to make, either thaw it overnight in the fridge or cook it straight from frozen in the Instant Pot. It shouldn’t require much adjustment in the time other than it will take longer to come up to pressure if cooking from frozen.
- There’s going to be extra sauce leftover, I love drizzling it over my rice to use it up.
- This recipe was only tested in the Instant Pot Duo 9-in-1 6QT.
- I consider this a healthy honey garlic chicken instant pot recipe because there are no added preservatives and we are sure that the honey that is being used is 100% real honey with no fillers! Make sure to double check your honey source!
Spicy Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken
Want to make this take out favourite at home? Well now you can! Skip the take out and make this Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken in the Instant Pot at home!
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Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 3-4 chicken breast
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 5-6 tbsp sriracha
- 2/3 cup chicken stock
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pinch salt & pepper
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- chili flakes
- rice or grain of choice to serve with
Instructions
- Dice your chicken into cubes and set aside.
- In a measuring cup or large bowl, mix together your honey, soy sauce, sriracha, and chicken stock. Set aside.
- On sauté mode (medium or high is fine), add some olive oil to your Instant Pot and add your chicken cubes into the pot.
- Add salt & pepper to taste to your chicken and let the chicken brown slightly. This helps to seal in the moisture. If you are in a hurry, you can skip this step.
- Add in crush garlic cloves then add in the spicy honey garlic mixture. Put the lid on your Instant Pot, set the valve to sealing, and then pressure cook for 6 minutes.
- Once done, quick release your Instant Pot, remove the chicken, and add a cornstarch slurry (1:1 cornstarch to liquid ratio), and set it to sauté (low) to thicken up your sauce. Return the chicken to the pot once thicken to coat the meat.
- When ready to serve, sprinkle on some chili pepper flakes to add a little bit more spice to the dish. Top with green onions as garnish if you wish.
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- What Is An Instant Pot
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Alix
I made this yesterday for the week and it is so good. Thanks for sharing!
Jo
Had a chance to make this tonight and it was amazing! The sauce is so good.