Instant Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken and Rice is creamy, rich comfort food with chunks of white chicken meat. It is probably my favorite chicken Instant Pot meal to date.
This delicious meal can easily be made in 30 minutes and serves 4 to 6 people. It’s perfect for a weeknight meal and is best served with a green salad, or steamed broccoli or green beans.
Heavy cream, a can of condensed chicken soup, and cream cheese plus lots of Parmesan cheese makes Instant Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken and Rice an insanely creamy and cheesy meal.
Garlic powder and onion powder give it all the extra flavor it needs.
Lefotvers reheat well.
You can use chicken thighs instead of chicken breast.
The cream cheese that’s added at the end is what really makes this a wonderfully delicious chicken and rice. Kids will love this Instant Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken and Rice. It has a fair amount of garlic flavor, but it is not too strong.
For best results, shred your own Parmesan cheese from a block of Parmesan instead of buying pre-shredded.
I use the Instant Pot DUO60 6 Qt 7-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker and Warmer and love it. It can also be used as a slow cooker and a yogurt maker.
The whole family will be happy with this Instant Pot meal. It is so, so easy to make.
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Instant Pot Garlic Parmesan Chicken and Rice
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 2 1/2 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 (10.5-ounce) can cream of chicken condensed soup
- 2 cups uncooked long grain rice
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 cups shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar or colby jack cheese
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- 4 ounces cream cheese,, cut into chunks and softened
Instructions
- Cut chicken into strips.
- Turn Instant Pot to "Saute" mode. Add butter. When melted add chicken and onion and cook until most of the pink in the chicken is gone.
- Add water, heavy cream and chicken soup. Stir.
- Add rice, sprinkling it in so that it is evenly distributed. Add garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper. Do not stir.
- Place lid on. Make sure valve is in "sealing" position. Pressure Cook on HIGH for 5 minutes. Manually release pressure.
- Once the pin drops, remove lid and stir in cream cheese. Stir in Parmesan cheese, cheddar, and parsley. Place lid back on for a few minutes to melt cheese. Stir and serve. It will thicken up as it cools.
Notes
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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How do you go from sauté to pressure cook without having to cancel the heat? My food burnt while pre heating. How do you avoid that? Do you always have to have the food already in while it pre heats? This is the first time I’ve tried using the pot now I’m discouraged lol
I usually let the pot pre-heart with only a bit of oil then add any meat or veg I want to fry first. If you let them heat with the pot you wont get browning and meats tend to stick really bad.
I wish I would have read the reviews before I tried this Pinterest fail. A lot of curse words, a lot of hard rice and a big hit to my cooking confidence, a lot of wasted ingredients went in the trash. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one, I feel better now. I wish I could rate it at 0 stars, the only successful comments, the writer edited the recipe. I kept getting burn warning with a whole lot of hard rice. Oh well, live and learn.
This is only my second time using my instant pot. My recipe the first time was just ok. Wasn’t impressed. But this recipe was SO good. I’m a huge risotto fan and for me, it resembled an American style risotto with chicken. Definitely a very indulging, heavy dish but very comforting. I would definitely make again and probably add some spinach next time. I was really worried about it burning based on everyone’s comments but I was fine.
Made this tonight. Turned out delicious! Only thing I varied from the posted recipe is doing a natural release for 12 minutes to make sure the rice was good and tender.
Made this tonight for the first time. I followed the instructions exactly. My husband LOVES it, and declared it his new favorite. Since this is rice I did not do a quick and let it release naturally. I think if you skip that part the rice would be hard. I added a little cayenne pepper to my plate and enjoyed the kick. Next time I will add broccoli to make it a little healthier.
SO… I got all the ingredients and then read the instructions again and THEN I read the reviews. I was so disheartened. BUT, given what I knew I… 1. added extra butter when sauteing the onions and chicken 2. followed the directions exactly 3. cooked on high manual for NINE minutes 4. used a towel when letting the steam escape. This recipe turned out PEFECT. I would steam broccoli or make peas to add next time to the final product.
Don’t even dare try this recipe unless you have the patience of a saint. This horrible recipe sent the burn message at least 7 times until I finally gave up and put it on my stove. Even then I don’t know how it’s going to come out because the rice was already halfway cooked. No way will I EVER try this recipe again. Horrible horrible horrible. If I could give negative stars I would and it still wouldn’t be enough to express how much I hate this recipe!
I should have read the comments, followed exactly and my rice isn’t cooked. I’m attempting to add more time before I call this a fail. As a previous commenter added-use cooked rice.
Mine spewed liquid all over my kitchen also ugh. It takes good but definitely going to have to clean the outside of my brand new Instant pot. How come this happened? Too much liquid??
When you do a quick or manual release place a towel over the steam valve.
Followed as written and loved it!
My husband loves this! With a newer model I was worried about the burn notice…I pre boiled the rice and sauté the chicken with onions and butter before hand and it came out perfect with no issues 🙂