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by Robin

This Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice recipe is the perfect meal for busy families! It’s our latest Go-To for a quick and easy meal that everyone in our family finds super tasty. Do recipes get any better than that?

We’ve had Fried Rice on our family’s Master List of Meals for years – over a decade.

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Our usual Fried Rice Recipe is one of our Planned Over specialties. We usually make it with pre-cooked rice (we make twice as much for a meal earlier in the week) and pre-cooked chicken or pork.

Do you use Planned Overs? (In a nutshell, it’s when you purposely make extra of something to use for later meal and save oodles of time.)

This 15-minute Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice is an improvement on even that simple meal:

No planning ahead required.

Isn’t that music to a busy cooks ears?

It starts with basic, uncooked ingredients and 15 minutes later you’re sitting down to a full meal. Here’s how…

Best Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp Canola oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1 1/2 cups rice
1 tsp garlic powder
1 cup frozen veggies
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
1 pound chicken breast, diced
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sesame seeds

How to make chicken fried rice in Instant Pot:

cooking onions in instant pot — Set the Instant Pot on the saute setting. Heat the oil.

Add the chopped onion and cook until translucent, around 2 minutes.

easy instant pot chicken fried rice — Add the frozen veggies.

how to make chicken fried rice in instant pot — Add the chicken breast.

chicken fried rice instant pot — Add the stock.

Close the lid and valve and set on high pressure for 5 minutes.

Manually release steam. Open the valve and lid.

15-Minute Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice

Yield: 4 Servings

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

A super easy and delicious meal that your family will love. Ready unbelievably fast!

Ingredients

2 Tbsp Canola oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1 1/2 cups rice
1 tsp garlic powder
1 cup frozen veggies
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
1 pound chicken breast, diced
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sesame seeds

Instructions

Set the Instant Pot on the saute setting. Heat the oil. Add the chopped onion and cook until translucent, around 2 minutes.
Add the rice and garlic powder and stir to coat evenly with the oil, cook for 30 seconds.
Add the frozen veggies, stock and chicken breast.
Close the lid and valve and set on high pressure for 5 minutes. Manually release steam.
Open the valve and lid. Add the soy sauce and sesame seeds and stir to incorporate.
Enjoy!