97 minutes•Easy•Serves 1
Spicy Instant Pot Chicken Arrabiata
By @chef1
A quick and flavorful Italian dish with bold and spicy flavors, perfect for a single serving. Ready in about 30 minutes using the Instant Pot.
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Ingredients
- ●1 boneless, skinless chicken breast
- ●1 tbsp olive oil
- ●2 cloves garlic
- ●0.5 tsp red pepper flakes
- ●14.5 oz crushed tomatoes
- ●1 tsp dried oregano
- ●0.5 tsp dried basil
- ●to taste salt
- ●to taste pepper
- ●for garnish fresh parsley
- ●for serving pasta, polenta, or rice
Instructions
- 1Turn your Instant Pot to the sauté function and add the olive oil. Once it's hot, add the chicken and sear it for a few minutes on each side until browned.
- 2Remove the chicken and set aside. Add the minced garlic and red pepper flakes to the pot and sauté for about 30 seconds until fragrant.
- 3Pour in the crushed tomatoes, oregano, and basil. Season with salt and pepper.
- 4Return the chicken to the pot, nestling it into the sauce.
- 5Close the lid, seal the valve, and cook on high pressure for 8 minutes. If using chicken thighs, cook for 10 minutes.
- 6Let the pressure release naturally for 5 minutes, then do a quick release.
- 7Shred the chicken with a fork right in the pot.
- 8Serve over your choice of pasta, polenta, or rice. Garnish with fresh parsley.
Recipe details
- Cuisine
- Italian-inspired
- Category
- Main course
- Preparation
- 49 minutes
- Cooking
- 43 minutes
Estimated total: 97 minutes. Planning estimate: stated duration ranges use their midpoint; standard preparation, heating and handling allowances are included. Overlapping tasks are counted once. Resting/chilling is included in total time.
How these estimates were calculated
- Prep chicken: 10 min planning allowance (meat_prep)
- Prep garlic: 10 min planning allowance (vegetable_prep)
- Measure ingredients: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Preheat Instant Pot: 3 min planning allowance (pan_preheat)
- Sear chicken: 8 min planning allowance (sear_batch)
- Remove chicken: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Add sauce ingredients: 3 min planning allowance (mix)
- Return chicken: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Close and seal lid: 5 min planning allowance (assemble)
- Pressure heat: 15 min planning allowance (pressure_heat)
- Quick release: 3 min planning allowance (quick_release)
- Shred chicken: 5 min planning allowance (simple_prep)
- Serve: 2 min planning allowance (transfer)
- Garnish: 2 min planning allowance (garnish)
- Season chicken
- Mince garlic
- Measure oil, red pepper flakes, tomatoes, oregano, basil, salt, pepper
- Turn Instant Pot to sauté, add olive oil
- Sear chicken until browned
- Remove chicken and set aside
- Sauté minced garlic and red pepper flakes until fragrant
- Pour in crushed tomatoes, oregano, basil, salt, and pepper
- Return chicken to the pot
- Close lid, seal valve
- Instant Pot comes to pressure
- Cook on high pressure
- Let pressure release naturally
- Perform quick release
- Shred chicken with a fork
- Serve over pasta, polenta, or rice
- Garnish with fresh parsley
- boneless, skinless chicken breast: USDA piece portion weight
- Matched to 1 piece of raw, skinless, boneless chicken breast.
- olive oil: USDA tablespoon portion weight
- garlic: USDA clove portion weight
- red pepper flakes: USDA tsp portion weight
- No specific portion_id for 14.5 oz, using food_id only.
- dried oregano: USDA tsp, leaves portion weight
- dried basil: USDA tsp, leaves portion weight
- Unweighed salt: only documented zero nutrients included
- pepper: USDA tsp, ground portion weight
- pepper: Seasoning allowance: 1/4 tsp per 4 servings
- Pepper to taste has unknown mass, using ordinary black pepper (calories/macros zero).
- Excludes optional fresh parsley
- Excludes optional pasta, polenta, or rice
- boneless, skinless chicken breast: 272 g · USDA reference 171077
- olive oil: 13.5 g · USDA reference 171413
- garlic: 6 g · USDA reference 169230
- red pepper flakes: 0.9 g · USDA reference 170932
- crushed tomatoes: 411.07 g · USDA reference 170501
- dried oregano: 1 g · USDA reference 171328
- dried basil: 0.35 g · USDA reference 171317
- salt: documented zero nutrients only · USDA reference 173468
- pepper: 0.57 g · USDA reference 170931
- fresh parsley: optional ingredient excluded
- pasta, polenta, or rice: optional ingredient excluded
chicken · Instant Pot · tomatoes · red pepper flakes
Estimated nutrition per serving
594 calories · 68.7 g protein · 33.7 g carbohydrate · 22 g fat · 8.9 g fiber
Source and basis: USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018), ingredient-based calculation per serving. Standard USDA portion weights; all listed ingredient mass included before cooking losses. Excludes optional fresh parsley; Excludes optional pasta, polenta, or rice Nutrients with incomplete inputs omitted. Full ingredient matches and assumptions below.
Recipe Context
This recipe was created with the following context in mind:
Sunday
late night
winter
Requested: 30 min
1 person
Craving: italian