Looking for a delicious dinner in your Instant pot? Check out this huge list of delicious Instant Pot chicken thigh recipes and get dinner on the table in no time!
I love my Instant pot! I use it so often for soups, chili, baked potatoes, rice…it is really versatile for almost anything! I had it for a long time before I ever cooked meat in it, but once I did I realized how juicy and tender it made it, and how quick it was!
My boys eat a ton of chicken, we mostly buy boneless skinless chicken breasts, but my younger two prefer dark meat, so thighs can be a great option.
There are so many delicious and creative Instant pot chicken thigh recipes out there I thought I would gather up some of them here to make it easy for anyone looking for the perfect one for their family’s dinner!
There is sure to be something here that you love! After all, there are 70 Instant pot chicken thigh recipes on this list! There is something for everyone!
There are a few recipes that have the same title on this list, but each is a little different so you can find the one that you’ll love the most!
Instant Pot Chicken Thigh Recipes
This list of over 65 Instant pot chicken thigh recipes has something for everyone!
Easy Instant Pot Butter Chicken and Saffron Rice (with Dairy-Free option)
Tender and juicy chicken, cooked in a creamy-buttery tomato sauce, served with Saffron flavored Basmati Rice. This recipe for Easy Butter Chicken and Saffron Rice in the instant pot is the super-easy adaptation of my recipe for Authentic Butter Chicken.
Delicious and easy 21 Day Fix Instant Pot Chicken Marsala that’s gluten-free, grain free, Weight Watchers, and Paleo friendly!
This Instant Pot Mediterranean Chicken and Rice is the perfect easy, healthy, and gluten-free dinner recipe. Juicy chicken thighs and rice are so flavorful!
This creamy chicken pasta is my all-time favorite pasta recipe. With just a few simple ingredients and a pressure cooker or instant pot you can have a filling dinner on the table even on the busiest of weeknights!
Pressure Cooker Chicken Casserole with Kale & White Beans • The Cook Report
Chicken casserole is such good comfort food and with a pressure cooker or instant pot it can be ready in next to no time! It’s perfect served with pasta, mashed potatoes or anything else you fancy.
Instant Pot Cashew Butter Chicken Curry - Quick, easy and healthy!
Instant Pot Cashew Butter Chicken is an irresistible recipe inspired by Indian butter chicken, but without the extra calories. The succulent pieces of chicken are spiced to perfection and cooked in a rich and vibrant tomato sauce. This is a quick and easy recipe that’s perfect for a weeknight!
This Authentic Instant Pot Chicken Tinga recipe is a flavor bomb! Bone-in chicken cooked with a vibrant combination of spices results in a delicious chicken filling that you can use to make chicken tinga tacos, tostadas, burritos, nachos, enchiladas or a chicken tinga rice bowl. Add your choice of toppings including queso fresco, salsa, guacamole, onions and cilantro!
If you’re into creamy, juicy tender chicken packed with ultimate flavor and served over a bed of egg noodles, then you will fall in love with this Instant Pot Chicken Paprika recipe. It takes less than 30 minutes to make for an easy weeknight meal!
This Instant Pot Coq Au Vin is a classic French stew made with chicken thighs, red wine, mushrooms and bacon. Made in the Instant Pot, this Coq Au Vin recipe is super easy to make and incredibly delicious!
Instant Pot Ramen Noodles (Stovetop Option) | 21 Day Fix Ramen Noodles (Gluten-free/Dairy-free)
21 Day Fix Instant Pot Asian Chicken - Confessions of a Fit Foodie
This 21 Day Fix Instant Pot Asian Chicken is a family favorite; it’s a fast, easy, and delicious dinner that’s FIX approved, gluten-free, dairy-free, and paleo-friendly
Chicken is perfect in the Instant Pot, and I particularly love Asian chicken. The sticky, soy based sauce is always so good. That is what makes this Instant Pot Spicy Honey Garlic Chicken recipe such a winner. If you make this with Sriracha, it will be nicely spicy. If you prefer mild, simply leave the Sriracha out!
This Instant Pot Garlic and Lemon chicken recipe is one of the main keepers in my household. Instant Pot chicken always comes out super juicy and full of flavor. No worries about it getting dry like it might in the oven or from pan cooking.
This Instant Pot Chicken Adobo recipe is mouth-watering and perfect for large families with busy schedules. This recipe requires no babysitting, uses simple ingredients and pairs perfectly with brown rice. The vinegar and soy sauce base goes perfectly over rice with the chicken.
Pressure Cooker / Instant Pot Butter Chicken is a classic Indian restaurant favorite that is easy to make at home. You’ll love the combination of tender chicken thighs and a creamy, buttery tomato sauce.
Cut the carbs with this Pressure Cooker Chicken Shawarma made with spices you probably already have in your cupboard. A Middle Eastern meal, tender chunks of seasoned chicken thighs are served on lettuce leaves with Tzatziki sauce.
Easy Instant Pot Chicken Thighs Recipe. How to cook perfectly moist and juicy chicken thighs in your Instant Pot pressure cooker. With tips on how to cook from fresh or frozen.
Enter my current fave recipe creation: the one-pot, 30-minute Instant Pot Moroccan Chicken meal. You guys, I am OBSESSED with this dish. It’s packed with flavor, and I hope you will love it, too!
Instant Pot Lemon Garlic Chicken is a quick and delicious family dinner, made easily in your pressure cooker!
Instant Pot Filipino Chicken Adobo is a traditional Filipino dish served with rice, made faster with the help of your modern pressure cooker.
Make this Instant Pot Lemon Chicken for dinner tonight – everyone will love it. Even better: It’s SO quick and easy to make – and you can even cook the chicken from frozen!
This Instant Pot Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup is easy to prepare and tastes like you slaved over it all day! It’s comforting, delicious, and comes together quickly (and in one pot!) thanks to your pressure cooker.
Perfectly cooked, juicy and incredibly flavorful, these Instant Pot Honey Soy Chicken Thighs can be made with boneless or bone-in chicken, in 30 minutes, with just 7 ingredients (including one special ingredient!).
This Instant Pot chicken noodle soup is easy to make, healthy, flavorful, and comforting. Like a hug in a bowl. Instant Pot to the rescue!
Garlic White Wine Instant Pot Chicken Thighs (Gluten Free, Keto)
In this recipe, I'll teach you how to combine some of the best flavors from the Pacific Northwest (plus a lemon!) to make juicy chicken thighs in the most amazing sauce.
This garlic white wine sauce is nothing short of epic.
Instant Pot Chicken Chasseur Recipe - Pressure Cooker Chicken Chasseur
An easy recipe for instant pot chicken chasseur. Tender chicken thighs, mushrooms and plenty of rich, buttery white wine sauce is what makes this a tasty dish that everyone loves!
Instant Pot Honey Mustard Chicken - Pressure Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken
This is a tasty recipe with quick preparation. Instant pot honey mustard chicken is cooked 8 minutes under pressure and the result is well worth it. Flavorful instant pot chicken thighs that fall easily apart.
Cooking these Fruity Fennel Chicken Thighs in an Instant Pot reduces the time an old favorite slow cooker recipe cooks by 5 hours.
These Instant Pot Chicken Thighs are cooked in a creamy and delicious sun-dried tomato sauce. They’re quick and easy to make in an electric pressure cooker for a simple weeknight dinner!
I’m often asked what Posole is. It’s a delicious Mexican stew, with chunks of pork or chicken, and hominy (lime soaked corn kernels). I prefer making Posole in the Instant Pot because it’s quicker and the meat is stewed in the broth and chile base during the cooking process.
This Instant Pot honey mustard chicken is so simple, made with ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen, and perfect to make on the busiest weeknights!
How to Cook Instant Pot Chicken Thighs + Video {Using Fresh or Frozen Chicken}
Ready for a winning Instant Pot chicken thighs recipe? This easy (and easily modifiable) recipe will produce tender, flavourful chicken thighs in no time at all. Suitable for Whole 30, Paleo, and Keto dieters. Recipe also includes Weight Watchers points and a video.
This aromatic Instant Pot fesenjan, or Persian pomegranate chicken, is packed with flavor thanks to pomegranate molasses, toasted walnuts, and spices, and will warm you right up on a winter’s night!
Perfect Instant Pot Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs on the menu today. Cooked in a Blue Dragon sweet chilli marinade and perfect for wraps, salads, sandwiches and so much more.
This Instant Pot honey lemon chicken is luscious and succulent, smothered with perfectly sweet and sour glaze. Serve with rice or a side of veggies for a perfect family dinner!
Who’s ready to INSTANTLY master some French cooking?! Sound too good to be true? Uh huh, yes it does. BIG promises on Pass Me Some Tasty today friends. Coq au Vin Blanc is hitting our dinner plates tonight. Instantly. But not instant like drive-through fast food instant. Instant Pot instant. Let’s make Julia Child proud.
Mediterranean Instant Pot Chicken and Potatoes is a perfect family meal. This is a one-pot dish that is affordable, quick and easy to make, yet full of amazing Mediterranean flavors. Suitable for gluten free diets. Post includes Weight Watchers points.
The unofficial “official” dish of the Philippines, meat stewed in an adobo sauce is tender and flavorful. This easy adobo chicken recipe uses chicken thighs and comes together quickly in an Instant Pot.
Crockpot BBQ Chicken - Low Carb, Keto, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, THM S
Hectic, crazy days mean less time for cooking, so I like to make this fantastic crockpot BBQ chicken! All it takes is a little bit of planning, a few ingredients, a crockpot, and you are well on your way to an EASY pulled chicken dinner. Not to mention, this crockpot barbecue chicken is a crowd favorite.
This dump and cook Instant Pot savory chicken recipe is super simple and delicious. Using boneless chicken breast meat or thighs, this dish is great for meal prep and batch cooking, it’s Whole30, gluten-free and paleo-friendly and you can serve it in a variety of ways. It’s a must-have Instant Pot chicken recipe!
This Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Piccata (guest recipe) is made with zesty lemon and capers for that light citrus flavor. It’s perfect to serve over angel hair pasta.
Sweet and spicy Instant Pot Chili Lime Chicken cooks in 10 minutes!
Chili Lime Chicken is a lightly spicy, tangy, sweet recipe that cooks in 10 minutes in the Instant Pot!
Instant Pot Sweet Potato Quinoa Chicken Chili is absolutely delicious! This is a hearty, filling chili that makes enough for a crowd, or meal prep. This yummy pressure cooker sweet potato quinoa chicken chili can be made vegetarian, and vegan easily.
Instant Pot Chicken Thighs with Potatoes are cooked together in your Instant Pot electric pressure cooker. I show you how to cook pressure cooker chicken thighs and potatoes together at the same time!
A delightful citrus herb chicken chorizo dish that’s meant to share. It’s seasoned with sun-dried tomatoes, orange juice, floral thyme and salty olives.
Make these tasty instant pot chicken and dumplings tonight! This creamy instant pot soup is made better with easy homemade dumplings! You will be surprised by how easy it is to make chicken and dumplings in the instant pot.
Chicken Cacciatore is a classic Italian dish made in the Instant Pot. The sauce is made with crushed tomatoes, peppers, and mushrooms. And the chicken is tender and juicy. Easy dinner recipe ready in about 30 minutes.
Instant Pot frozen chicken thighs are perfect for burrito bowls, chicken tacos, meal prep, and more. Make the best and easiest shredded chicken with just 2 ingredients straight from your freezer and pantry.
I am a huge fan of cilantro and lime, so this Instant Pot Cilantro Lime Chicken and Rice recipe is one of my new faves!
Presenting a chicken tikka masala recipe to astonish your senses! Boneless pieces of chicken thigh are marinated in yogurt and spices, chargrilled to perfection and smothered in a creamy and luscious sauce to make this insanely gorgeous chicken curry.
These BBQ Chicken & Ranch Sliders are the best and easiest Whole30 appetizer ever! Roasted Sweet Potato rounds are topped with slow cooker bbq shredded chicken, topped with cilantro and red onion, and drizzled with compliant ranch dressing. Best of all, they’re Paleo, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and always major crowd pleaser!
A crowd-pleaser, this Instant Pot Chicken Teriyaki is ready in thirty minutes! With only six ingredients, you won’t spend all day in the kitchen preparing this delicious chicken dish.
Instant pot chicken thighs are a simple & healthy dinner idea your kids will love. This instant pot recipe uses broth and spices to flavor the chicken thigh recipe then is finished off with a quick broil for extra crispy chicken.
Paleo Instant Pot Chicken Fajita Soup that’s healthy, bursting with flavor, and super filling. Top this delightful gluten-free soup with your favorite toppings!
Authentic Goan Chicken Vindaloo made in the Pressure Cooker or Instant Pot. Vindaloo is a traditional Goan curry which is made with meat cooked in onions, ginger, garlic, along with lots of aromatic whole spices and the tanginess of vinegar. Enjoy this dairy-free and gluten-free Chicken Vindaloo with rice or naan for a satisfying dinner!
Chicken Fajita Soup made in the Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker. A delicious and healthy soup with tender chicken, lots of veggies and spices. A perfect meal for the cold weather! This Instant Pot Chicken Fajita soup is gluten free and low carb.
Not only does this recipe provide dinner in what feels like no time, it is also incredibly delicious. The depth of flavor is amazing, teasing your taste buds with a little spice and a whole lot of yum. If you have found yourself and your family getting bored when it comes to meals, this is sure to change the game.
Creamy Spinach Butternut Pasta. This dish is incredibly creamy and delicious and is ready for serving in 30 minutes, whether you are cooking with an Instant Pot, in the oven or on the stove top. Packed with nutrition and flavor from spinach, butternut, leeks and spices, the smooth creaminess comes from cream cheese, nutritional yeast and a little kick from my favorite spice– red pepper flakes. Prepare with chicken or without. Same great creamy goodness.
This is a very easy recipe, and you can swap out flavors to get a great flavor that you and your family will fall in love with. This was one of the first chicken dishes I made with my Instant Pot. This really convinced me that using the Instant Pot for meals would really help me, with giving my family healthy meals.
The recipe was written by Sunset Books, for the barbecue grill and years ago, I adapted it for the oven and now I have adapted for the Pressure Cooker, but I used chicken thighs. The chicken still needs to crisp up in the oven, so don’t forget to allow for the oven time.
Delight your taste buds with the umami, sweet, and spicy flavors in this Korean-style chicken dish. Serve my moist and tender Instant Pot Korean Chicken Thighs over jasmine rice. It’s quick and easy enough for a weeknight, and exotic enough to steal the show at your next dinner party!
This Instant Pot Greek Chicken Thigh recipe is an easy and healthy dinner for a busy weeknight. Serve it with rice or potatoes, or keep it low carb and eat it on it’s own. With flavorful seasoning and chicken that’s cooked to perfection, it’s a fantastic one pot meal!
This Instant Pot Chicken Thighs and Rice recipe is creamy, delicious, and cooks all in one pot. With mushrooms, onions, lemon, and thyme, it’s an easy and healthy pressure cooker recipe that’s both gluten free and dairy free.
Instant Pot Greek Gyro Chicken is my recipe version of a classic Greek flavor of lemon, garlic, cumin, and cinnamon. You are going to love this recipe. It is easy to make and in the pressure cooker, it can be done in less than 30 minutes.
Instant Pot BBQ Chicken! Sweet, fall-apart tender and perfect for sandwiches, salads, BBQ plates and more!
My Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings were such a big hit, I decided to make an Asian Inspired Chicken Wing in my Instant Pot Pressure Cooker! Friday nights in my house is Chicken Wing night, so we have been creating flavors of wings.
Doesn’t this list make your mouth water! I hope you find a recipe here that you love! Come back and let me know which ones are your favorite!
Instant Pot Honey Sweetened Apple Sauce
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