Instant Pot Chicken and Wild Rice - Dump and Go Dinner
Our Instant Pot Chicken and Wild rice is a tasty gluten and dairy free dish that takes your weeknight dinner up a notch. Easy to prep, pull this meal out of your freezer when you need a quick and delicious dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Wild Rice
- 1 cup peel and dice Apple
- ½ cups dice Onion
- ½ cups Cranberries, Dried
- ¼ teaspoons Thyme, Dried
- ¼ teaspoons Basil, Dried
- ¼ teaspoons Garlic Powder
- ¼ teaspoons Salt
- ¼ teaspoons Black Pepper
- ½ cups Chicken Broth/Stock
- 2 pounds quarter Chicken, Boneless Breasts
- ½ cups Water
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Cooking Instructions
Freeze For Later Cooking Day Directions
These directions help you cook or prepare this meal PRIOR to being frozen for serving later (see Serving Day Directions when you are ready to prepare it to eat).
Why would I want to freeze this?
- Divide rice among indicated number of pint freezer bags.
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Make From Frozen Serving Day Directions
These directions help you cook or reheat this meal AFTER it's been frozen for when you are ready to eat it.
- Prep from frozen
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Make It Now Cooking Directions
These directions are for cooking this recipe to serve immediately and NOT to freeze for later.
- **Due to the nature of pressure cooking there is always room for inconsistency. The times given here are based on 4 servings fresh. If you are using more servings you may need to increase your cooking time.**
- Combine rice, apples, onions, cranberries, thyme, basil, garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Place rice mixture in the Instant Pot. Add the water and broth. Stir well and top with chicken.
- Lock the lid in place and seal the steam nozzle.
- Cook on high pressure for 25 minutes.
- Quick release the pressure.
11 Comments
Join the discussionI doubled the recipe, did 25 minutes, then 10 minutes natural release, and the rice was way too mushy. This was from fresh, not frozen.
We’re sorry this recipe didn’t turn out as you’d hoped and will pass this on to our team. Thanks for your feedback!
I also got rice that was way too wet. Should the amount of water added on serving day be halved?
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This recipe has WAY too much water. I made the make it today version and it was more like mushy soup.
I don’t see water as an ingredient. Just in the directions. How much was too much??
1.5 cups of water is listed in the serving day ingredients.
From my experience: If you are making recipe for serving now, do not add the water…..just the chicken broth. Step #3 in the Make it Now directions should just read “…. Add the broth…..”
I made this its amazing I did leave the water out of it. Just the bouth. Its was so good.
I loved the concept of this recipe. However, had some issues. To get the wild rice to the consistency I like I put it in the instapot for 20, quick released then added the ingredients and chicken. I did love the rice! The apples and cranberries were a great combo! However, the chicken was overcooked and bland. I will be using your ingredient list for the rice in the future, but next time will bake the chicken separately. Great concept though. Thanks for the new wild rice recipe!
Hi Celeste, thanks so much for your feedback. I’m sorry you found the chicken to be overcooked and bland. We will pass that along to our Menu Builder team to review. So glad you loved the rice!