Name: Pressure Cooker Orange Chicken
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces; 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice; 1 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce; 3 tbsp ketchup; 2 tbsp brown sugar; 1 - 2 tsp sriracha sauce; 1/2 tsp kosher salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 2 tsp cornstarch; 1 tbsp water; green onions, sliced; crushed red pepper flakes, optional; cooked rice, for serving

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Pressure Cooker Orange Chicken – takeout taste in 15 minutes! Chicken thighs are cooked in a sweet and spicy orange sauce and served over rice for a kid-friendly, weeknight meal!

Hi guys!

It has been raining nonstop.

I feel like I’m back home because we get afternoon showers most days of the week.

And then it got cold for a while. It’s been a weird couple weeks in central Texas.

The weather’s got me craving major comfort food without a lot of work.

Crock-Pot Express Crock Multi-Cooker Review

This is the Crock-Pot Express Crock Multi-Cooker.

And I’m obsessed with it.

So it combines the functions of pressure cooker, slow cooker, steamer, sauté/browning, and it has 8 preset buttons that cook a variety of meals.

Like, it has a button that perfectly cooked beans and one for soup and one for poultry. All that.

I’ve had it for probably a month and I’ve used almost every day since then.

My kiddos have practices 4 days a week right now and they tend to run pretty late, so I’ll chop whatever needs to be chopped for dinner ahead of time. And then all that I have to do is pop it all in the Crock-Pot Express Crock Multi-Cooker when we get home and then I can walk away for a few minutes and help with homework or whatever and then dinner’s done in 15 minutes.

Ingredients

Boneless skinless chicken thighs
Orange juice
Low-sodium soy sauce
Ketchup
Brown sugar
Sriracha
Salt and pepper
Cornstarch
Green onions
Crushed red pepper, flakes
Cooked rice, for serving

How to Make Pressure Cooker Orange Chicken

Place diced chicken thighs in pressure cooker
In a small bowl, whisk together orange juice, soy sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, sriracha, and salt and pepper
Pour sauce mixture over the chicken
Place top on pressure cooker; make sure that it’s locked and steam valve is closed
Press poultry button and start button
When timer goes off, hit the stop button
Do a quick release by carefully flipping open the steam valve
Press saute button
In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and water
Stir cornstarch mixture into the pressure cooker
Cook just a minute or 2, until the sauce has thickened
Serve over rice with green onions and crushed red pepper flakes

How to Make Rice in a Pressure Cooker

And the rice just blows my mind because I can’t cook rice on the stove to save my life. It ends up mushy and goopy and terrible. Like, I buy precooked rice.

It’s that bad.

But the Crock-Pot Express Crock Multi-Cooker makes perfect, fluffy, not sticky rice in 12 minutes.

Twelve minutes, you guys.

It’s just one cup of white rice (rinse it well in a mesh strainer) with 1 cup of water or broth. Then you just hit the “Rice” button.

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