Honey Mustard Chicken (Instant Pot)
Published Jan 26, 2018
Updated Sep 10, 2024
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my privacy policy.
Honey Mustard Chicken - tender, juicy and fall-off-the-bone chicken in rich honey mustard sauce. The easiest and most delicious chicken dinner ever!
Honey Mustard Chicken is probably one of the most popular chicken dinner recipes.
The combination of honey and dijon mustard works great on chicken, especially with juicy and tender chicken thighs.
In this recipe, I will teach you how to make this chicken in an Instant Pot.
I have been using my Instant Pot a lot, especially on those busy weeknights when I don’t have much time in the kitchen.
I love that this Honey Mustard Chicken recipe is so easy; it calls for 5 key ingredients, with an active time of 10 minutes. I used soy sauce to enhance the flavor and it turned out absolutely delicious!
Serve the chicken with either steamed rice or plain spaghetti; ladle the sauce over the rice or mix it with the spaghetti, it’s very good. Heating up is extremely easy with the Instant Pot saute function.
Try this recipe tonight and I am sure you and your family will love the chicken so much that you are going to keep making this dish. This recipe is a keeper for sure!
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 447 calories per serving.
What To Serve With Honey Mustard Chicken
For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
I hope you enjoy this post as much as I do. If you try my recipe, please leave a comment and consider giving it a 5-star rating. For more easy and delicious recipes, explore my Recipe Index, and stay updated by subscribing to my newsletter and following me on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram for new updates.
Other Recipes You Might Like
Honey Mustard Chicken (Instant Pot)
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 – 2 lbs. (750g-900g) chicken thighs, 5 chicken thighs
- salt
- ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 3 tablespoons dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon chopped parley
Instructions
- Season both sides of the chicken thighs with salt and ground black pepper.
- Mix the honey, dijon mustard, soy sauce and chicken broth together. Stir to combine well.
- Turn on the Instant Pot and set the mode to Saute. Add the olive oil when it's fully heated, so the chicken won't stick to the pot. Pan-sear both sides of the chicken thighs, skin side down first, until the skin is a nice golden brown and the bottom part is nicely browned.
- Add the garlic into the pot, follow by the honey mustard mixture. Cover the lid and select Manual and set to High pressure for 10 minutes. When it beeps, turn to Quick Release. When the valve drops, remove the lid carefully, add the chopped parsley. Change to saute mode and reduce the sauce for 1 to 2 minutes, if you like a thicker sauce. Serve with plain spaghetti or steamed rice.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Sounds delicious but I’m wondering about the garlic. Art you leaving the cloves whole, smashing them, or mincing them?
Hi Karen. You can throw the garlic cloves in whole or lightly smashed as they will soften and disintegrate into the gravy.
Can I use chicken breasts
Yes.
Hi Bee,
If I want to make the chicken skin a bit crispy how long should I use the air fry lid on my hot pot and at what temp? Can I do this with the sauce in the pot or do I have to remove it and just leave the chicken thighs in the IP?
Thank you.
Sorry I don’t use air fryer.
I made this tonight. Oh man. Oh. Man. This was superb! Exquisite! I made this with a rice pilaf and I barely noticed I had done anything to the rice because I had put so much sauce over it after tasting it. In the future, I will probably use skinless and boneless chicken thighs but only because I never eat the chicken skin. But no worries, the taste the browned skin adds to the dish is very well worth the trade-off. I was telling my sister the other day that anything you make, I can trust as being delicious no matter what. This dish is proof. If you were here in person, I’d not only shake your hand, I’d hug you and give you the slow clap.
Nice! My kids like it lots. From a little Singapore family kitchen :)
Hi Belinda, awesome. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Nice! My kids like it lots. From a little Singapore family kitchen :)
I made this tonight and my whole family raved how good it was..thank you!
Hi Karen, thanks for trying this honey mustard chicken. I am so glad your family loved it. Please try more Instant Pot recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipes/instant-pot-recipes
I have a XL electric pressure cooker. I would like to double this recipe. Would I make adjustments to the time and amount of ingredients for the sauce?
Time should be the same but you can double sauce and ingredients.
I don’t have Dijon mustard, could I use regular mustard instead?
Yes, that should work!