Instant Pot Chicken Soup with Frozen Chicken
Although the pasta and veggies go together like peas and carrots, you don’t really need to add them. There are a tonne of Ninja Foodi soup recipes available. Yes, you can use that pressure cooker as well. The brands don’t matter.
Have a Crockpot Express, use that. Ninja Foodi is also functional; all of them have the high-pressure cooking feature. The carbohydrates are added towards the very end to avoid them becoming mushy. The cook time is the primary distinction between frozen and defrosted meat. That is really it.
There are plenty of simple one-pot meal recipes available here for those who are new to pressure cooking. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!.
- Next, PRINT this cheat sheet on Instant Pot cooking times, which will help you determine how long to cook meat, veggies, and beans under pressure. This cookbook is fantastic for InstaPot, and it’s also a great idea to pick up a set of wooden utensils. I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot. With this improved liner, the pressure cooker won’t have as many problems when you deglaze it after sautéing.
As an example, I use this 6-quart pressure cooker for all of my recipe creations.
Use our Instant Pot chicken noodle soup recipe and timing if your meat is defrosted. It requires a total of 20 minutes to pressurize and become tender. Because the heat must reach the center of your chicken breasts to achieve a safe internal meat temperature, this one takes closer to 35 minutes.
The same ingredients were had though for both. In the event that you are lacking fresh produce, I would recommend frozen veggies instead of canned. Overall, I don’t like the texture of canned vegetables, and I think that the longer high pressure time would cause them to just fall apart. Fresh cut into large chunks is best though.
- Medium-sized, boneless, skinless chicken breasts that are still frozen are ideal. After tasting this, you’ll never think to cook frozen meat again.
- Celery
- Carrots peeled and cut into large bite size chunks
- Chicken broth or stock
- Diced onion
- Add any kind of seasoning you like, but the staples are salt and pepper.
All you have to do is add everything, cover, and cook. No extras are needed, just the inner pot itself. I highly suggest the no stick version vs. the one that comes with your IP.
Easy Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
Simple is the key here. You just dump and walk away. You can finish your one-pot meal in about thirty minutes. You can use a thermometer to check the doneness of your chicken, but essentially, if it isn’t tender enough to shred with two forks, it isn’t cooked through. As soon as you remove it from the pot, it ought to want to crumble.
It is thicker than mine and requires more time on high if it is difficult to pull or shred at all. That is why I suggest medium breasts always. Anything more than that will lengthen the cooking time and likely overly soften the vegetables.
I also discuss this same topic when preparing chicken noodle soup in the Crockpot.
Without a doubt, that is what we are discussing at this time. We’ll let you know when pull apart status is reached. Use diced rotisserie chicken to drastically reduce the cooking time if you want to make this even faster. In an Instant Pot, frozen food normally takes 30 minutes, fresh food takes roughly 12, and precooked food only takes 5 minutes.
Add all the fresh herbs, seasonings, and veggies you enjoy, and look at all the beautiful colors! Remember that you ought to select those with a more assertive demeanor. Green beans, snap peas, carrots, and celery would all be good substitutes; broccoli will be too soft.
Can I freeze leftover soup?
Yes. Freeze for up to three months after placing in an airtight container. To defrost, place in the refrigerator overnight. When reheating, you might need to stir in additional chicken broth, depending on how much the noodles absorbed.
I would suggest preparing the dish without the noodles, cooking it, and then adding the noodles when you reheat it if you intend to freeze the entire batch.
