Honey Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken (a Dump Recipe with FROZEN Chicken Breasts!)
by Robin
There is so much to love about Instant Pot Dump Recipes!!! Have you discovered them yet? So good for so many reasons: super low prep, ready in minutes and, if you choose well, they’re delicious.
We’ve happily added this savoury new recipe to our collection of No Prep Instant Pot recipes.
What’s particularly wonderful about this Honey Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken recipe is that you cook the chicken breasts from FROZEN! What a time saver! That means – you don’t need to plan ahead – just pull those frozen breasts right from the freezer, dump in the simple ingredients and 30 minutes later you’ve got a fabulous meal. YES!
Recently we created a whole collection of recipes just like this one – Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Recipes – starting from frozen for the win!
This meal is quite versatile too. You can serve it on top of rice or noodles, of course, but it also makes for a great sandwich filling or salad topping.
Without further ado – here’s the recipe…
Honey Instant Pot Teriyaki Chicken Recipe (from frozen!)
Pour honey and mix until everything is well incorporated and chicken is coated with sauce.
Close the Instant Pot and close the valve.
Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes.
Manually release steam and open the lid.
Set Instant Pot to saute and sprinkle chicken with cornstarch.
Mix and let the sauce thicken around 5 minutes.
Sprinkle with diced green onion on top.
Instant Pot Honey Teriyaki Chicken (a Dump Recipe with FROZEN Chicken Breasts!)
This Instant Pot Honey Teriyaki Chicken is delicious and super easy to make! Best of all? You can start directly with frozen chicken, so even if you forgot to take it out o the freezer you can have a hot meal ready in less than 30 minutes.
Serve it over noodles or rice, use it to fill sandwiches or as a salad topping.
Ingredients
- 2 Chicken breasts, frozen
- ½ cup low salt soy sauce
- ⅓ cup chicken broth
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ⅓ cup rice vinegar
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil
- ½ tsp ginger
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ cup honey
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch
- Green onion, diced (to taste)
Instructions
- Place frozen chicken breasts in the Instant Pot. Add soy sauce, chicken broth, garlic powder, rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger and paprika. Pour honey and mix until everything is well incorporated and chicken is coated with sauce.
- Close the Instant Pot and close the valve. Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes. Manually release steam and open the lid.
- Using 2 forks roughly shred the chicken. Set Instant Pot to saute and sprinkle chicken with cornstarch. Mix and let the sauce thicken around 5 minutes.
- Serve on rice or noodles or in sandwiches. Sprinkle with diced green onion on top.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 3 Serving Size: 1/3Amount Per Serving: Calories: 409Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 69mgSodium: 2501mgCarbohydrates: 57gFiber: 1gSugar: 47gProtein: 29g
You can’t beat Instant Pot Dump Recipes for speedy meals – and especially Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Recipes and Recipes for Frozen Meats in Instant Pot – and we’ve shared lots of our own creations:
- Instant Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic from FROZEN chicken
- Delicious & Easy Mexican Instant Pot Chicken Tacos from frozen
- Quick Tender Ribs in the Instant Pot
- Instant Pot Korean Beef
- Instant Pot BBQ Whole Chicken
- “Crack” Cream Cheese Chicken Chili Instant Pot Recipe
- Beer Brisket Instant Pot
- Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Recipes
Robin and Ed are a DIY-loving couple with over 25 years of design and build experience. Also, Robin is a Nutritionist and former Registered Dietitian and Ed is an award-winning Business Educator. We share strategies for living a rich life on a DIY budget: creative money-savvy ideas for a stylish home, healthy meals and family fun. Our work has been published in the pages of Do It Yourself, Farmhouse Style and Better Homes & Gardens magazines.
Wowser!! This was definately a hit!! Followed the recipe except used thighs instead and it was so amazing!!! Will be in my rotation!! Thanks for sharing!!
Great! Happy it was a hit for you, Juli!
I have made this recipe numerous times and it is a family favorite (even for my toddlers!), but I am wondering how it would taste if I subbed Swerve (or an alt sweetener) for the honey. My MIL is keto and coming tomorrow for dinner so I’m trying to make this but altered for her. Anyway, thanks, for such a wonderful recipe!
I’m so glad your family loves our recipe, Porsche!!! I’m afraid I’m not familiar with swerve – let me know how it works if you end up trying it! 🙂
My whole family (3 generations!) loves your IP Beefaroni recipe, so I decided to make this Teriyaki Chicken recipe tonight. It’s cooking right now…can’t wait! Since we have a number of food allergies, including gluten, I used tamari instead of soy sauce – I hope it’s not too salty. Will be serving over steamed rice, so that should help balance it out. I also look forward to trying out some of your other IP Dump recipes in the future!
Thanks, Sue! Glad your family loves that recipe. Make sure you use low salt soy sauce – people have been missing that and it’s pretty essential. If you don’t have any you can add half regular soy sauce and make up the rest of the volume with water. 🙂
Worked perfectly! And I doubled the recipe and it took the same amount of time to cook. Found it worked better if I pulled out the chicken to shred and thickened the sauce with cornflour mixed with some water then added the chicken back in.
Way too salty! Which is saying a lot for me because i love salt , i would definitely use low sodium soy sauce , i couldn’t even eat it ):
Hi Sierra – the recipe actually calls for low salt soy sauce.
How do you get such a dark sauce? Mine always is light brown?
First instapot recipe, and the flavor seems nice. Haven’t eaten it yet, so we’ll see if it’s a hit.
Hi Julia – Its the soy sauce that gives it such a dark brown colour. Hope you liked it! 🙂
I made this tonight with coconut aminos instead of soy sauce & coconut sugar instead of honey. It was too sweet with my adaptations so I’d probably just do 1/4 cup of coconut sugar in the future. Very yummy & easy! Thanks 🙏
I had never thought to try this recipe with coconut, Sara. 🙂
Great flavor and such an easy meal! However, that much soy sauce makes it waaay too salty! I even used 1/3c instead of 1/2c and it was still so salty my wife wouldn’t eat the leftovers.
I’ll definitely make it again, but I’ll trust my gut this time and adjust the sauce recipe a bit more. I’m thinking halve the soy sauce, and add in more stock and some cooking rice wine.
I wonder if you used garlic salt instead of garlic powder, Chris? Also a low salt soy sauce makes a big difference too. All that said, everyone has a different salt tolerance/preference. Your substitution ideas sound like good ones.
Made this tonight and it was so good! I added green peppers, celery and onion – used on cauliflower rice. Definitely will be making again. Thanks so much for sharing!
Cauliflower rice sounds like a genius idea, Lisa! Thanks for letting us know you liked it! 🙂
I used thighs and it was still delicious. My husband loved it. I didn’t have ginger or chicken stock so used water instead. Game changer for this working mom!!
I’m thrilled it worked out well for you, Mary! Busy lives need easy recipes! 🙂
Just made it! Super easy. Best frozen chicken instapot recipes I’ve made to date. My entire family loved it. I decreased the soy sauce just a bit and used lite soy sauce and it was perfect. Thank you!
I’m so happy you and your family liked it, Brandi!
We had it tonight and also added broccoli. We had it in a bed of rice, delicious!!!
Sounds fabulous, Kyle – so glad you liked it! 🙂
If I double this recipe do I need to adjust the cook time?
You shouldn’t need to change the cook time with a pressure cooker. 🙂
I made this a while back and we loved it! Even my kids (ages 6,5,3) love it. And I’m making it tonight!!
I’m so glad to hear that, Emily! All three love it!?! That’s high praise! Thanks for sharing it with us! 🙂
This recipe looks like a delicious meal and also a great time saver. I'll add it to my favourites!
It is delicious! I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for your comment! 🙂
I made this tonight & served over Noodles. I added cooked broccoli when I served it. My husband & I both really liked it!
So happy to hear that, Ronda! 🙂 Thanks for taking the time to let me know!