World’s Easiest Instant Pot Cháo Ga Recipe (Vietnamese Rice Porridge with Chicken)

I absolutely love my 6QT Instant Pot. I use it all the time, especially on days when I’m feeling super lazy and I have to make dinner quickly and easily. I’ve made all kinds of food using it, from Mexican shredded chicken to chicken pho and even beef pho. I’ve also made Vietnamese yogurt and stews and soups. It’s one of my favorite kitchen appliances. If you don’t have one, you should go out and buy one!

Since it’s December and naturally cold and flu season, my husband came home the other day with a man cold. Since our 6 month old baby was feeling under the weather too, I wanted to cook something easy that they could both enjoy. Chao Ga, or Vietnamese Chicken Rice Porridge (or rice congee) was a staple sick food when I was growing up and my family loves it. It’s the ultimate sick food. Easy to digest, warm on the tummy, and just healthy. Also, it’s super easy to make the Instant Pot.

I am also the queen of laziness when it comes to cooking when I’m busy. This recipe is the world’s laziest and world’s easiest Instant Pot Chao Ga recipe. It uses frozen chicken breasts (because sometimes, you don’t have time to go to the grocery store to buy fresh thawed chicken breasts.)

Enjoy and please let me know you like it!

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World’s Easiest Instant Pot Cháo Ga Recipe

This is the world’s easiest Instant Pot Vietnamese Rice Porridge (Chao Ga) recipe using frozen chicken breasts.

Course Breakfast, Main Course, Soup

Cuisine Asian, Vietnamese

Keyword Chao Ga, Rice Recipes, Vietnamese Courses

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Servings 4

Equipment

• Instant Pot

Ingredients

• 1 cup jasmine rice
• 6 cups of chicken broth
• 2 frozen skinless chicken breasts
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 knob of ginger, peeled
• 1 small or medium onion, peeled
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
• 1 teaspoon ginger powder (optional)
• Ground black pepper, to taste

Instructions

• Rinse the jasmine rice with cold water. Rinse until the water is clear.
• Add the rice, chicken broth, and frozen chicken breasts to the Instant Pot.
• Peel and mince the garlic cloves.
  Peel the onion and ginger knob.
  Add the aromatics to the Instant Pot.
• Close the lid. Select Manual, High Pressure and set to 25 Minutes. Let it naturally release if eating later, or manually release it.
• If the consistency of the rice porridge (or rice congee) isn’t to your liking, add more water or chicken stock to thin it out using the Saute mode.
• Remove the onion and garlic knob from the porridge and discard.
• Using kitchen thongs, remove the chicken breasts and shred it before putting back in the porridge.
• Serve the Chao Ga with cilantro, chopped basil leaves, or fried shallot (whatever you’d like). Top it with ground black pepper to taste. Enjoy!

Notes

• Depending on your preference for thicker thinner porridge, you can adjust the chicken stock amount to your liking. For thicker rice congee, I’d use 4 cups of water. For a thinner consistency, I’d use 8 cups.
• If you want your Instant Pot rice congee to be saltier, add fish sauce to taste.

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Review

Recipe Name

World's Easiest Instant Pot Cháo Ga Recipe (Vietnamese Rice Porridge with Chicken)

DoanPhuong Nguyen

Published On

2019-12-13

Preparation Time

5M

Cook Time

25M

Total Time

30M

Average Rating

5 Based on 1 Review(s)