Instant Pot Thai Peanut Chicken
When you are looking for a quick and delicious meal, Thai Peanut Chicken is the perfect dinner to serve up! Using just a few pantry staples, this creamy chicken dish is a must make dish. It’s also gluten and dairy-free.
Ingredients
For Peanut Chicken:
- 2 teaspoons oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1” fresh ginger, minced
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 ½ lbs Farmer Focus boneless skinless chicken breast, diced into 1-1/2” pieces
- 2 teaspoon garlic chili paste
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons coconut aminos
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter (or almond butter)
- Salt and Pepper, to taste
For serving:
- Rice Noodles or Zoodles
- Cilantro
- Chopped Peanuts
- Thai chilis
Directions
- Add oil to the insert of a 6 or 8 quart Instant Pot. Press the saute function, and heat the oil. Once hot, add the garlic, ginger and green onions and cook while stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the chicken and cook until the outside is no longer pink, about 3 minutes.
- Shut off the saute function.
- Add in the chili paste, coconut milk, coconut aminos, honey and fresh lime juice and stir to combine.
- Place the peanut butter on top of the chicken and do not stir.
- Cook on manual high pressure for 5 minutes. Once finished, move the steam release valve to quickly release the steam pressure. When the floating valve drops, remove the lid.
- Stir the peanut butter into the chicken. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
- Serve over rice or rice noodles with cilantro, chopped peanuts and sliced thai chilis.
