Honey Garlic Chicken
This recipe is a little bit of both sweet and savory with very short ingredient list and preparation time.
Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Chicken Dark meat recommended for this recipe
- 1/3 cup Honey
- 4 cloves Minced Garlic
- 1/2 cup Soy Sauce Could substitute with coconut aminos
- 1/4 cup Water
- 3 tbsp Unsweetened ketchup Optional
- 1 tbsp Dry Oregano Optional
- 2 to 3 Root Vegetables Potatoes or carrots
- 2 tbsp Cornstarch Slurry (Optional)
Instructions
Brown the chicken (optional)
- Turn on the sauté function
- Wait until display is "HOT"
- Put 1 tablespoon of your preferred oil of choice into the pot
- Brown the chicken (skin side down first if it's not skinless). Brown in batches if needed.
- If there are brown bits at the bottom of the pot after the chicken pieces are browned, use a spatula or wooden spoon to scrape them off.
Main Instruction
- Put chicken pieces into the inner pot of the instant pot. (If you choose not to brown the chicken, then the first step.)
- Put in garlic, honey, soy sauce, ketchup if using, water, dry oregano into the pot.
- Mix everything well, be sure all the chicken is covered with the marinade.
- If you choose to cook root vegetables with it, put them on top of the marinated chicken.
- Close the lid of the instant pot.
- Set the venting knob to sealing (not venting).
- Set it on Manual High Pressure for 10 minutes.
- Natural release for 5 minutes. (natural release means once the 10 minutes cook time is over, do nothing for 5 minutes, and you'll see the counter on the display counting up 5)
- At this time you could decide whether you want to do a natural or quick release for the remainder of the pressure.
Thickening the Sauce (Optional)
- Remove all the content from the pot except for the liquid.
- In a small cup or bowl, mix 2 tablespoons of cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of cold water, mix well until you don't see any lumps.
- Turn the instant pot to sauté mode.
- Slowly drizzle the cornstarch slurry into the liquid while stirring.
- Keep stirring until the sauce comes back up to a boil and to the thickness you desired.
