 Hey guys, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today we're gonna make instant pot cheesy chicken and rice. So I'm Kristen. I'm Camille. And every Monday we share an instant pot recipe with you guys. So if you are new to the instant pot or you want to try some new recipes, make sure that you like and subscribe. So besides all the videos that we share on YouTube, we also have a website called SixSisterStuff.com where we share thousands of recipes. I think we're up to 3,000 or so recipes of simple recipes just like this. Tons more instant pot recipes, tons of family dinner ideas, just any way that we can help you get dinner on the table, we're gonna make it happen. Really, we're busy moms. We all, I think with six of us together, how many kids do we have? 18. 18 and counting. Yeah, more are gonna be counted. But we have a lot of kids and so really our goal with this website was just to make life easy, simple and easy for moms and putting dinner on the table. Yeah. All right, should we jump into this one? Let's do this. This is one of our favorites on our website. Oh my gosh. And we put it on the website not long ago and it exploded. Everyone loved it. So we're showing you just some simple ways to even make it easier than the recipe that's on the website. Exactly. So here's our shortcuts. Let's do it. What are we starting with? All right, let's, I'm gonna have you cut up the chicken. Okay. So we're gonna have like one and a half pounds to two pounds of chicken and I like to use the tenderloins because it just makes them cook a little bit faster and they're nice because they're small. So they're easy to cut up and lots of times they've already been, like the fat's been, they're trimmed. Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of times they're already trimmed and makes it really easy to cut it up. I'm just cutting it into some kind of bite-sized pieces. That's perfect especially for kids. All right. Yeah. She's cutting that. I'm gonna push the saute button right here. So when you push the saute button, right now it says, there's a little button that says less, normal or more. We're just gonna keep it at normal because it's fine. All right. So saute, then it's going to beep for you. After you push the saute button, it's gonna start heating up. Once it gets hot, I kind of just test it a little bit. Once it's hot, then I add my oil and other things. How long does it take to get hot? Sometimes like two minutes, sometimes like five. Lots of times, even before it's hot, I'll just start cooking. I'm in a hurry. It is what it is. This is real life. Exactly. All right. So once it's heated up, we're just gonna add, what, about a tablespoon, two tablespoons of olive oil. So we're just gonna drizzle that into the top of the pot. Now, I like when my oil gets hot and then I do a trick and I lift my pot up and just kind of wiggle my oil around so it covers all the bottom of my instant pot. Well, there you go. There you go. Kristen's got fancy tricks. So I call her the Instant Pot Master. There we go. Once the oil is heated up, ready to go, Camille is gonna add our chicken. Yep. You're ready? Kristen gets scared to touch raw chicken. So that's why I'm doing it. I appreciate that. If your oil's hot, it should sizzle at this point. Yes. ours is so warming up. That's okay. You can hear it a little bit. Now, this makes a lot of rice and other things, so this is a lot of chicken. If you have a smaller family, you could even cut this recipe in half or even in fourths. Totally. I mean, you just make sure you cut all the ingredients down, but the timing will be the same. You cook it for the same amount. All right. So once the chicken starts to cook on the bottom, you kind of just flip it around a little bit. I kind of stir as I go. Is that horrible? No. And that's what I do too, just to make sure that it all gets evenly cooked. I'm gonna throw the onion in there too. Please do. Just to add some more flavor. We'll let that cook in the oil. Nice. I think that's one of my favorite smells is cooking chicken and onions together. Well, let's make it even better and add some garlic. All right. How much garlic are we gonna add? I think just a teaspoon. Or what, two cloves? So I'm just grabbing a spoon. No, it's fine. Yeah, two cloves. That sounds good. So we're just using jarred garlic. A half teaspoon of this equals a clove. This is one of my favorite shortcuts, so you don't have to chop fresh garlic. I think all six of us use that shortcut. We love it. I don't like pressing like garlic. Okay, so the seasonings we're gonna add, I'm just doing like a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of pepper. You can totally eyeball this. Don't feel like you need to measure it out. I think a ray to ray style. Pour it in your hand and then dump it in. We're not fancy like that. If you want to add other seasonings that you like, you could. You could do some Italian seasoning. You could do a little bit more like garlic powder. If you love the taste of garlic. I mean, however you like to season it. You can add a little more. Totally works. We love like a little bit more salt, so I usually add about a tablespoon of salt into this recipe. You do? I do. I love salty things. I didn't know that about you. Yep. Learn something new every day. Yep. All right, so the chicken kind of has some browning around the edges. I mean, you can cook this as much or as little as you want. It just really is to seal in the flavor, kind of make the chicken. Have some added moisture, I would say. Yeah. And I think a little bit of flavor too, it gives it some sauce. 100%. So now from this point, it's just kind of a dump and go. Right? So we're adding in two cups of rice. Now in the recipe, it says it a little bit differently, but we're showing you this is the simple way to make a dump and go. Like the dump and go version. Totally. All right. So I'm doing two cups of white rice. If you want to, you can rinse the rice before you dump it in. Totally up to you. I'm just going to go ahead. We don't judge you either way. If you rinse your rice or not. There's no judging. Okay, and then I'm going to do about two cups of chicken broth. Nice. Just kind of pour about right in. There we go. All right, so the secret when you're cooking your rice in the Instant Pot is you want to make sure that the rice, every single kernel of rice touches the liquid because if it doesn't, you're going to have some hard pieces of rice there. So we're going to do. Didn't know that. Now you know. Okay, I've got half a cup of water going into just some added moisture for that rice. Now I've got a can of cream of chicken soup. If you want to, if you're feeling super domestic, you can make your own. But for simplicity, I just use a can of this. You can get, they make a healthier option. Reduced fat. Reduced fat, which works right. It's not coming out. There we go. Okay, so add that in there. And then the last thing we are going to throw in is a bag of frozen vegetables, and they are still frozen. They are. But I think works better because you're going to cook all the vegetables, rice, and chicken all at the same time. Yep. So I think frozen vegetables works better because then they'll cook. Yeah, they won't be super mushy. They won't be soggy. Yep. All right, just dump it in. Give it a good mix. Just going to mix it around, make sure all the rice is covered by the liquid. And I think we're good to go. Here's a cup. So we have our lid now. We're all ready to go. Now remember, while we are putting this together, it's still on saute, which is okay. I guess I should put the lid on correctly, huh? Okay, so we're putting the lid on. We're going to turn this little knob to ceiling, not venting. Make sure I can see this here. Now, because it is on saute, first you have to push cancel. So you're going to push the keep warm cancel button just to turn it all the way off. Then you're going to push the manual button. Now, if you don't have a manual button, you'll have a pressure cook button. It's the same thing, manual pressure cook. You're good. All right. So then we're going to go up to six minutes. Now we can do six minutes because our chicken is little. It's already been sauteed. The rice only takes about six to seven-ish minutes to cook, and the vegetables only take about two minutes to cook, but they still taste good together. So it's all kind of the same amount of time. That's why you can all cook it together. Awesome. All right. So you heard it a little beep. Once it says on, you can just walk away. So it's all done cooking. We cooked it for about six minutes. You can go up to seven if you want. But because it's done, we're going to turn it over to a quick release. Here we go. Once all the pressure's out, then you can open the leg. Just beware of the steam because it gets toasty. All right. So if you can see this, now it looks like there's a lot of liquid on top, but once you mix it around, there's some rice that still needs a little bit of liquid, and it will all work out together. It all evens out. Exactly. So while you're doing that, you want me to dump the cheese in. So you're going to add, is it one cup? Yeah, one cup of cheddar cheese. One cup of shredded cheddar cheese. You can shred your own if you want, or you can buy pre-shredded. It doesn't really matter. We always tend to buy the shredded because it just makes life easy. But I did notice if you buy the block cheese and shred it yourself, it melts a little bit easier. So much easier, especially in this recipe. But either way, you're going to be just fine. Exactly. If you want more cheese, you can make it more cheesy. Feel free to add more. That's what we did too. So after we did individual servings, we put a little more cheese on. On each one? Yep. It's a great idea. Yeah, let the kids. This is super kid-friendly. My kids loved this. Mine too. And like you said, it makes a ton. Like, we ate it for lunches all week long. Right? This, we're going on third meal of this. I mean, this is just the sweet. It's awesome. I know. It's one of our favorites now. Hey, what do you think? Looking good? Looks good. Okay, should we plate it up? Yep. So at this point, you could feed it to your family. It is going to be super hot for a minute, but it's just, it's cheesy. It's comfort food. I don't think you could ask for anything more. And then like you were saying, if you want to throw on a little bit of extra cheese, especially when it's hot, there we go. We'll get all melty on there. If you want to get fancy, throw on some fresh parsley. There you go. Dinner is served. There we go. So we're just wondering, what's your favorite food in the Instant Pot? I love comfort food like this. I love to do soups, but I'm always looking for new ideas. 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