Description
A delicious pressure cooker recipe featuring tender chicken, cashews, and a savory sauce.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 lb chicken (boneless skinless breasts or thighs, cut into bite size pieces)
- 2 tbsp sesame oil (or olive oil)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp minced garlic
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 3 whole green onions (sliced)
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 4 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup cashews (roasted)
- 2 tbsp cornstarch (optional to thicken sauce)
Instructions
- Put your diced chicken, sesame or olive oil, salt, minced garlic, pepper, rice vinegar, hoisin sauce, soy sauce and chicken broth into your pressure cooker. Stir.
- Close pressure cooker lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 4 minutes.
- Do a quick release when done. Open lid and set aside.
- In a small bowl whisk together your cornstarch and 5 tbsp of hot liquid from your pot until smooth.
- Set your pressure cooker to sauté and when sauce inside begins to bubble pour your cornstarch mixture in and stir for 1 minute. Then turn pot off.
- Dice green onions and put into pot, add as many roasted cashews as you’d like. Stir so everything is combined well.
- Serve alone or on top of rice!
Notes
- This dish can be served with rice or on its own.
- Feel free to adjust the amount of cashews and green onions to taste.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Pressure Cooking
- Cuisine: Asian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 400
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 800mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 25g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 30g
- Cholesterol: 100mg