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If you love chicken parmesan, you are going to love this Instant Pot Chicken Parm Soup. This soup is made easy in the Instant Pot with our favorite chicken, a flavorful tomato broth and topped with all the classic chicken parm flavors. Made in partnership with my friends at Farmer Focus!
Instant Pot Chicken Parmesan Soup
This Instant Pot Chicken Parm Soup takes all the classic flavors of chicken parmesan but cooked up conveniently in soup form, without much work. It is pure comfort food in a bowl, but this version is lightened up compared to the classic. This dish starts off by cooking up chicken in a flavorful broth, quickly, in the Instant Pot. Then some pasta is cooked right in the broth, though this step is optional if you want to keep it low-carb. We then top the soup with parmesan cheese and my favorite gluten-free breadcrumb alternative: pecan breadcrumbs! I really love how special these nut breadcrumbs make the dish. They are naturally gluten-free and really give you that breadcrumb flavor, in a nutrient dense form.
Why Cooking Dinner in the Instant Pot is the Best
We could sing praises all day about about why we love the Instant Pot, especially for easy dinners! This appliance isn’t just for making quick work of typically long braised dishes like beef barbacoa or pork carnitas. It’s also great for quick weeknight dinners that don’t actually require much hands-on cooking. This Instant Pot Chicken Parm soup is great for all of that. The recipe doesn’t require very much prep work aside from gathering some ingredients. All that means an easy delicious meal without much effort.
Chicken Parm Soup Ingredients
Chicken Parm Soup Ingredients- Farmer Focus Chicken Breast
- Onion
- Garlic
- Tomato Paste
- Diced Tomato
- Salt and Pepper
- Dried Oregano
- Chicken Broth
- Penne Pasta
- Parmesan cheese
- Pecan “Breadcrumbs”
A Note about Cooking Pasta in Soup
We call for cooking the pasta directly inside the tomato broth for this soup. But a word of caution, only do this if you plan to consume immediately. As with any soup recipe, if you cook the pasta directly in the soup, the longer it sits the more broth the pasta will soak up. Eventually the pasta will become water logged if stored, and can disintegrate. So if you want to make this soup as a make-ahead lunch or dinner, cook the pasta and store the pasta separately and only add it when you are ready to eat.
Why we Choose Farmer Focus to Raise the Chicken We Buy
Why we Choose Farmer Focus to Raise the Chicken We BuyI am so happy to continue my partnership with my friends at Farmer Focus to bring you today’s easy Instant Pot chicken recipe! Farmer Focus has been my go-to, trusted chicken for years now, because they pride themselves in producing the highest quality meat grown on family-owned farms. I love being able to grab up a package of Farmer Focus chicken at the grocery store and not having to question whether it is truly coming from meat raised in a humane way.
Farmer Focus is building partnerships with growers through their innovative Farmer Focus Business Model
Farmer Focus is a company that supports their farmer partners and that is working hard to do things right and truly raise and produce the highest quality chicken! Every Farmer Focus product includes a 4-letter farm I.D. that traces your chicken to the farm that raised it. Buying meat from Farmer Focus also gives me peace of mind that I am supporting hard working family farmers.
Farmer Focus chickens are humanely raised and fed a diet free from animal byproducts, pesticides, and antibiotics. On their website you can see where all of the farms are located, so you know just where your chicken was raised! How awesome is that?!
You can also use their easy store locator to find where you can get this amazing quality chicken near you.
Swaps for this Chicken Parmesan Soup
Swaps for this Chicken Parmesan SoupWant to make this dairy-free? Simply leave out the cheese on the top! Of course, part of the flavor profile on chicken Parm, is well, the Parm! But this soup is flavorful enough that it won’t be missed too much.
Want to make this nut-free? Go ahead and leave out the pecan breadcrumbs. If you wanted to substitute them with regular or gluten-free breadcrumbs, that works too!
Don’t have an Instant Pot?
You can make this soup in the stove top too!
- Heat oil in a dutch oven over medium heat. Once hot, add onion and garlic and cook until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add in tomato paste, oregano, salt and pepper and cook for 30 seconds. Add in diced tomato, chicken breasts and broth and stir together. Lower heat and simmer until the chicken is cooked through and tender, about 30 minutes. Remove chicken, dice and set aside
- Add in 1 cup of water and bring the broth to a boil. Once boiling, add the pasta and cook according to package instructions.
- Meanwhile, toast the breadcrumbs: Heat oil in a small pan over medium heat. Add pecans, italian seasoning and garlic powder. Cook stirring occasionally until the pecans smell toasted, about 3-5 minutes.
- Once the pasta has finished cooking, place the diced chicken back in the pot. If needed, add remaining cup of water to thin out the soup.
- Serve the soup with a garnish of parmesan cheese, “breadcrumbs” and parsley.
If you like this soup recipe, check out these others:
If you like this Instant Pot Chicken recipe, check out these others:
- Instant Pot Chicken Adobo
- Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala
- Instant Pot Chicken Cacciatore
- Instant Pot Cheesy Chicken, Broccoli and Rice
Watch the video:
INSTANT POT CHICKEN PARM SOUP
Ingredients
For Soup:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion finely diced
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 4 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 teaspoons oregano
- 1-½ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1-28 ounce can diced tomato
- 1-½ pounds Farmer Focus boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup water or more if needed
- 4 ounces penne pasta
- Parmesan cheese for garnish
- Parsley for garnish
For Pecan “Breadcrumbs”:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 cup pecans finely ground in a food processor until sand-like consistency
- 1/4 teaspoon italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Pinch of fine sea salt
Instructions
- Press the saute function in a 6 or 8 quart Instant Pot and add olive oil. Once hot, add onion and garlic and cook until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add in tomato paste, oregano, salt and pepper and cook for 30 seconds. Add in diced tomato, chicken breasts and broth and stir together. Shut off the saute function.
- Close the lid and set the pressure-release valve to sealing. Cook soup on manual high pressure for 9 minutes with a quick release. Remove chicken, dice to bite-sized pieces and cover to keep warm while the pasta cooks.
- Press the saute function on the Instant Pot and add in 1 cup of water. Once boiling, add the pasta and cook according to package instructions.
- Meanwhile, toast the breadcrumbs: Heat oil in a small pan over medium heat. Add pecans, italian seasoning and garlic powder. Cook stirring occasionally until the pecans smell toasted, about 3-5 minutes.
- Once the pasta has finished cooking, place the diced chicken back in the pot. If needed, add remaining cup of water to thin out the soup.
- Serve the soup with a garnish of parmesan cheese, “breadcrumbs” and parsley.
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This recipe is delicious! If making a double batch in the instant pot, would you recommend doubling the time to 18 minutes?
if you make this by cooking the pasta separate, would you still add the 1 cup of water?
Hi Jackie. If you made the pasta in a separately you would not need to add the extra 1 cup of water to the soup. -Kelli
We love chicken parm here and your soup looks amazing 🙂 We will have to try it with regular bread crumbs tho I think, one family member does not like pecans (or really any nuts besides peanut butter – and not even fresh ground peanuts.) Do you have another suggestion or should we just use regular bread crumbs? I am always up for new things!