Instant Pot Tahini Orange Chicken Recipe

This instant pot tahini orange chicken is healthier than takeout and easy to make using your Instant Pot. Remember, to make it with fresh orange juice and orange zest for great flavor.

Have This!

• Two lbs chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces
• Tow tablespoons vegetable oil

Sauce:

• One cup orange juice no sugar added
• One tablespoon ginger grated
• A cloves garlic minced
• One tablespoon rice wine
• One tablespoon of tahini
• Half cup tomato sauce optional
• One-fourth cup granulated sugar
• Half cup brown sugar
• One-fourth cup soy sauce
• One tablespoon Sriracha
• zest from one orange

Do this!

• Dry it with a few paper towels and after that cut the chicken into two inch chunks.
• Heat up your pressure cooker.
• Add the oil to the hot Instant Pot, add the chicken and sauté for three minutes, stirring a few times. Cook until it just starts to get golden.
• Also, after you sauté the chicken, check if bits stuck to the bottom, in that case, deglaze the pot with 1/4 cup orange juice and scrape them with a wooden spoon.
• Add the Sauce ingredients to the pot: remaining cups of orange juice, minced garlic, ginger, soy sauce, tahini, white sugar, brown sugar, rice wine, orange zest and Sriracha sauce.
• Stir gently until all the ingredients are combined and coated in sauce.
• Close lid, select Manual and select five minutes on High Pressure.
• Use a ten-minute Natural Release. Turn off the heat. Release the remaining pressure by opening the vent. Open the lid.
• Select again the Sauté function, on LOW. In a medium bowl combine 2 tablespoons of cornstarch with the orange juice, whisk until all combined with no lumps.
• Add the mixture to the Instant Pot and gently stir to combine. Cook on Sauté function for a few more minutes, stirring gently, until the sauce thickens. Simmer for three minutes.
• If you want the sauce even thicker, mix one more tablespoon of cornstarch with orange juice and add it to the pot.
• Let the Orange Chicken stand for seven minutes, the sauce will thicken more.