 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to the third episode in my WW Instant Pot series. Tonight I'm going to be sharing two delicious chicken recipes with you, one of which is a pasta and the other is chicken over rice. I cannot wait to share these recipes with you. If you are on the fence about buying an instant pot or maybe you have one but you don't use it because you're not sure how to use it then this is the series for you. I'm going to be sharing two delicious WW friendly recipes that are so easy to make, one stop shop in the instant pot. So if you want to see what two recipes I have in store for you, all you have to do is stay tuned. For tonight's instant pot dinner, we are going to be making instant pot buffalo chicken pasta. This sounds so good. Who doesn't love pasta for dinner? So let me show you what is in tonight's dinner. So first you're going to need some pasta. I am using the fiber gourmet light penne pasta. This pasta is half the smart point of a regular pasta. Three points per two ounces versus six points per two ounces. You can buy this on Amazon and it is linked down in my description box below. This is a staple in my house. I usually have anywhere from six to eight bags on hand. You're also going to need some ranch. So I'm going to use bull house classic ranch. You'll need some hot sauce. So I'm going to use sweet baby rays, light butter, bacon bits, cream cheese, light Mexican style or any type of a light cheese and of course some chicken breasts. So let's get started on tonight's dinner. The first step for tonight's dinner is to go ahead and put your three breasts of chicken in a ziploc bag. To that we are going to add our hot sauce. Now we don't like our food super spicy so I'm using half the amount of hot sauce that the recipe called for and in fact I'm going to have most of the recipe as well since there's only two people in my family. So this is actually about an eighth of a cup of hot sauce and we are just going to put that directly onto our chicken and then we're just going to give our chicken a nice good shake, get it nice and covered in the hot sauce and then we're ready to add some of our ingredients directly into our instant pot. So the next step is we are going to take one tablespoon of light butter and put that into our instant pot and then to that we are going to go ahead and we're going to add in our pieces of chicken with the hot sauce. Once you've added your light butter and your chicken breast directly into your instant pot we're going to go down here to our dial. We're going to select manual and we are going to up the time to 14 minutes. We'll pop our lid on and we are going to let this cook for 14 minutes. While your chicken is cooking go ahead and add your cream cheese to a bowl. This is four ounces. I did half the amount of cream cheese. I also have the amount of ranch so this is one half of a cup of bull house ranch and the original recipe also asks that you add additional hot sauce but I am not going to do that because the hot sauce on the chicken will be enough for us but you would also add some hot sauce to this mixture. Go ahead and mix together your ranch and your cream cheese until they are fully combined and nice and creamy. Once your chicken is done you're going to go ahead and remove it from your instant pot. We're going to add it to a bowl and then we're going to get it all nice and shredded up and then we'll add it to our cream cheese and ranch mixture and then we're ready to put our pasta into the instant pot. Once you get your chicken all shredded we're going to go ahead and add it to our cream cheese and ranch mixture and then we're just going to mix it all up and then we're ready to get our pasta into our instant pot. The next step is we're going to go ahead and take our water so since I have the recipe I have to the water so this is only one in a half cups of water. To that we're going to go ahead and add in our eight ounces of pasta and then on top of our pasta is where we're going to go ahead and add in our chicken mixture. So we're just going to scoop it on top of our actual pasta in our instant pot and then we'll get ready to cook it just a little bit longer. So I've added my chicken cream cheese ranch mixture to the top of my noodles. I did add just a tiny bit of hot sauce as well so then we are going to put our lid on and we are going to again set our instant pot on manual but this time we're only going to do it for four minutes and that is enough time to cook down the pasta. So I just took the lid off of the instant pot yum look at that oh sorry we're going to get kind of steamy for a second but basically I'm just going to stir the chicken mixture in with our noodles let me wipe you off there we go stir the chicken in with our noodles and then I'm going to just go ahead and top it with our cheese. So I did decide to use all of the cheese which is four ounces of the light shredded cheese so I'm just going to put that on top and the best way to melt the cheese if you don't want to go a whole nother pan route sorry there we go is to just put your instant pot lid on for just a few minutes give the cheese a chance to melt I'll plate this up and show you dinner look at this dinner look at that cheesy creamy deliciousness so I'm going to go ahead and get this plate did up one sixth of this is a serving so I'm going to go ahead and get that on my plate and I will show you what a serving size looks like and give you the smart points but look at this yummy so here is dinner yum look at this so I went ahead and topped it with one half of a tablespoon of these real bacon bits that is zero points for half of a tablespoon so what I have here is one sixth of our buffalo chicken pasta look at this cheesy pasta bacony deliciousness so that is a total of six smart points so one sixth of the recipe six smart points and then we're just having some broccoli and cauliflower with a little bit of spray butter salt and pepper so this entire dinner is a total of six smart points for tonight's dinner we are making instant pot teriyaki chicken I am making quite a few modifications to the original recipe the original recipe wants you to make your own teriyaki I'm going to use a pre-bought one because it is zero points other than that our recipe is going to be the same so this is very simple super quick let me show you what's in tonight's dinner so of course you're going to need chicken breasts the recipe calls for thighs but I'm going to go ahead and use chicken breasts we're also going to need either some ground ginger or fresh ginger cornstarch garlic I'm going to go ahead and just use this dried garlic I bought bought this at Costco it just really makes it a lot easier and lasts a very long time and I'm actually going to use GQ sugar-free teriyaki marinade instead of making my own this will save a lot of steps and this marinade is zero points it's only five calories for a tablespoon and then of course we're going to need some rice so let's get started on tonight's dinner so the first thing we need to do is go ahead and add your chicken to a ziploc bag we are then going to add in our teriyaki marinade it does want this to marinade for about 20 minutes I'm going to add about half of the bottle I think that that's 20 for my three chicken breasts so I'm going to get this kind of mixed together and I'm going to throw this into the fridge while we put together the rest of our ingredients and get our instant pot out so the first thing you are going to do is place your chicken with your teriyaki sauce into your instant pot look at how delicious that looks to this we are going to be adding in a little bit of ginger now again you can use fresh ginger or ground ginger so I decided just to go ahead and top it with just a little bit of ginger this marinade is going to be super flavorful so we don't need to go too crazy on the seasoning and then I'm also going to add in a little bit of my lighthouse garlic as well just to kind of give it that little extra boost of garlicky goodness and then from here we are going to take the steamer rack for instant pot so this is what it looks like and we're actually going to place it on top of our chicken and then you're going to need a dish that will be safe in your instant pot and you're going to place it on top of the steamer rack to your dish is where we're going to go ahead and add in our one cup of rice and then we are also going to be adding in our water so we want to make sure that our rice is fully covered in water and then we are ready to get this going so we're going to put our lid on and we'll get it started so to cook our chicken and rice we're actually going to use the manual button and we want to go ahead and cook it for six minutes on high pressure and then once it is done cooking for six minutes we're going to naturally release it for 10 so I'll be back in about six minutes once your six minutes is up your instant pot is automatically going to natural release so we want to do that for 10 minutes so this dial will read 10 and then we will release the rest of the pressure and take a look at tonight's dinner once your instant pot reads 10 minutes of natural release we're just going to go up here and turn this and vent out any remaining steam which it does not look like there's any and then we'll remove the lid and take a look at our dinner so there is our rice it is perfectly done I'm going to use my little silicone mitt that came in my accessory pack for my instant pot which I purchased on amazon it is linked down in my amazon store there is our rack so we're going to get that removed and I'm actually going to shred up my chicken in the teriyaki sauce once you get your chicken shredded this is where you can add in some corn starch to thicken your teriyaki but I'm pretty good with the thickness of it and I do want it to kind of drizzle over my rice so I'm going to go ahead and plate up my chicken in teriyaki and my rice and I'll show you the completed meal and give you the smart points so here is tonight's dinner this looks delicious so first I just have some organic mixed veggies I just sprayed those with a little bit of I can't believe it's not butter spray salt and pepper so that is zero then over here is my teriyaki chicken so what I have is one half of a cup cooked of white rice so that is a total of three smart points I did just go ahead and measure that here just using a half of a cup per serving so I have half of a cup of white rice for three and then I topped it with my teriyaki chicken a little bit of the teriyaki sauce that is zero so this entire dinner is a total of three smart points teriyaki chicken and rice and veggies for three points thank you for joining me on the third episode in my w w instant pot series I hope that you enjoyed seeing the two recipes that I shared with you they were both phenomenal so make sure that if you have an instant pot you definitely make these recipes if you do not it is time to purchase one because these recipes were so good I do have several instant pots linked down in the description box in my amazon store so check them out thank you so much for watching if you're new make sure you subscribe hit the little notification bell that way you're notified every time I upload a new video give this one a thumbs up comment down below let me know are you going to try these two recipes or have I convinced you to get an instant pot and I'll see you guys all in the next one bye