Instant Pot Paleo Chipotle - Honey Chicken Tenders - Dump and Go Dinner
Spice up your mealtime routine with a mash up of sweet and savory deliciousness. These Instant Pot Paleo Chipotle-Honey Chicken Tenders are perfect with a side of paleo friendly coleslaw or atop a veggie laden spinach salad.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon Chipotle Chili Powder
- 1 teaspoon Cumin
- 1 ½ teaspoons Paprika
- 1 ½ teaspoons Salt
- 1 teaspoon Onion Powder
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1 teaspoon Mustard Seed, Ground
- ½ teaspoons Oregano, Dried
- 1 ½ pounds Chicken Tenders, Fresh
- ¼ cups Honey
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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?
- Combine chipotle powder, cumin, paprika, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, dry mustard, and dried oregano.
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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.**
- Add the trivet and minimum amount of water needed for your Instant Pot (1- 1.5 cups).
- Combine chipotle powder, cumin, paprika, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, dry mustard, and dried oregano.
- Rub chicken with spice mix. Place on trivet once seasoned.
- Lock lid into place and seal steam nozzle.
- Cook on high pressure for 9 minutes.
- Let pressure release naturally for 5 minutes then release any remaining pressure.
- Remove chicken from pot and drain water.
- Change setting to saute. Add chicken back to pot and baste chicken with honey, creating a glaze, turning over and coating both sides generously. Cook for 2-3 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
- Servings Per Recipe
- 4 Servings
- Serving Size
- about 6 ounces Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 260
- Total Fat
- 3g
- Saturated Fat
- 0g
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 97mg
- Sodium
- 826mg
- Total Carbohydrates
- 20g
- Fiber
- 1g
- Sugar
- 16g
- Protein
- 40g
- WW Freestyle
- 4
29 Comments
Join the discussionChicken was not cooked. :-/
I am so sorry that this one did not work for you. We have had good experiences with it so far. Did you change anything? Add or subtract items?
Instant Pots can be different due to elevation or amounts – was your chicken frozen in a solid chunk or were the pieces individually frozen?
Any of those things could have caused uncooked chicken.
Feel free to pop into chat (in the right hand corner of the site) during chat hours if you have any other questions!
Mine wasn’t cooked either… fresh and for 9 min. I supposed I’ll use more time next time.
Yes, Shannon. Feel free to add more time as you see fit! Especially if you increase serving sizes or have thicker pieces of meat.
That happened to me, too. I put it back in for 3 more minutes – cooked fully. I just wish there was a dipping sauce, as well.
This recipe turned out great. Had to modify the spices a bit because I didn’t have chipotle powder. I subbed smoked paprika and it was fine. Timing was great too. Will make again!
I loved this recipe! I didn’t have any chipotle powder but I did have some chipotle in adobo sauce and just took out a couple and rub it into the chicken. My family loved it!
We made this at 6 servings and from frozen it takes more like 14 or 15 minutes. At 9 it was still uncooked.
Hi Kinzie, Thank you so much for your feedback on this recipe. We do know that you may have to adjust your cook time if you increase or decrease your serving size. As a general rule, you typically add 2-5 minutes for every additional two servings, so 14-15 minutes seems like the perfect cook time for 6 servings, opposed to 4 listed in the recipe.
This is a great post on making adjustments cooking in the Instant Pot.
https://onceamonthmeals.com/blog/series/instant-pot/instant-pot-tips-tricks-201/
I hope this helps. ~OAMM
I do not have honey. Will maple syrup work as well?
Yes, but just note that the flavor profile will change.
This is only the second meal I’ve made in the pressure cooker. First time making chicken. It was DELICIOUS!! I ate mine and finished both kid’s portions too. I loved it so much. Thanks for posting!!
Aw, thanks for sharing Jenn. So glad your 2nd meal turned out for you in the Instant Pot. Happy Cooking!
Just made this and it turned out great. I had 2.5 lbs of chicken tenders and cooked it for 10 mins and natural release for 8. Thanks!
So glad this worked out for you Stephanie! Thanks for sharing!
Loved it. Followed the directions exactly and it turned out great! Will certainly make this again and again! Thank you!
Made this tonight and it turned out great! Definitely making it again. Didn’t have chipotle powder so used chili powder instead. Other than that, followed the directions exactly!
Thanks for your feedback, Jen!
I keep seeing IP recipes but no one indicate whether you use low, med or high pressure level?
Hi Lynn, on step #5 from make from frozen, we indicate this should be cooked on high pressure (manual button). I hope this helps. All of our recipes should indicate the mode (soup, meat/poultry etc.) or manual / high pressure.
I’m cooking chicken tenders from refrigerator, this is only my second time using Instant Pot and am a rookie. I’m cooking about 8 strips and want to use bbq sauce, am thinking I should add water also. But my real question is, do I Closs valve to venting and when timer has gone off open steamer. Am truly a rookie!
Hi Mary! We suggest learning more about your Instant Pot before attempting to make this recipe. A great place to start would be here: https://onceamonthmeals.com/instant-pot/
You’ll need to make sure that your valve is closed in order for your meal to pressure cook and open in order to vent.
We hope this helps!
And what does natural release mean?
‘Natural release’ is when you allow your pressure cooker to release pressure on its own without opening up your valve to vent. Opening up your valve to let out the steam, which is known as a ‘quick release’.
too bad you make people “join” to see recipes…..are you one of those that “needs” friends and shares to feel important? first thing I saw was the chicken didn’t cook….better try again
We have almost 300 free recipes available for anyone to use. We provide additional resources and recipes for our members – grocery lists, prep sheets, labels, nutrition info, etc as they customize their meal plans from almost 13,000 recipes. So the reason people join isn’t to access recipes – it is for the additional resources and support we provide. You are correct that there was a complaint about the time to cook the chicken but there were also several praises for the recipe again. If you care to receive a free meal plan we do have some available – feel free to go here for that.
I loved it. My husband loved it. He said “this makes me like chicken again.” Ha! Had a little kick to it and my chicken was cooked well. I left it in there longer than 5 minutes though and I think I had a little less than a pound of chicken as opposed to a pound and a half. Thank you!
That’s awesome! We are so happy to hear you guys enjoyed it!
Also, the chipotle flavor makes it, so I suggest those who subbed try it again with the chipotle! Mmm.