Name: Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 4 large chicken breasts (frozen, skinless); 3 carrots (full size, chopped); 4 celery stalks (chopped); 1 small onion (chopped); 3 tablespoons butter (unsalted); 2 cloves garlic (minced); 2 slices fresh ginger; 8 oz. wide noodles; 1 bay leaf; 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning; salt and pepper (to taste); 8 cups chicken broth (2-32. oz. containers)

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This Instant Pot chicken noodle soup is the best chicken noodle soup I’ve eve made. Seriously, it really is that good. What makes it even better is that it’s made in the Instant Pot which means it cooks in no time!

I’ve been sick for over two days and craving some home made chicken noodle soup. Yesterday I drug myself to take my daughter to Barnes and Noble so she could use a gift card she got from her grandmother. Even though I was sick, I couldn’t resist helping her buy a book.

Across the street from the book store is a Whole Foods grocery so I had a great idea to buy some chicken noodle soup for dinner from its food bar. We got there and the soups of the day just didn’t appeal to me so we walked out with frozen pot stickers, an extra large chocolate cupcake with three buttercream flowers on top, and 2 overpriced salted caramel macarons.

Needless to say when the next day rolled around I still had a hankering for some chicken noodle soup, I wasn’t surprised: Instant Pot to the rescue. I haven’t made much in my Instant Pot yet, but thought it should be able to make a great batch of Instant Pot chicken noodle soup. And, I knew it could cook frozen chicken in minutes.

It didn’t disappoint.

I was able to make an amazing pot of Instant Pot chicken noodle soup with frozen chicken for lunch.

Normally, I’d do all of this on the stovetop, or in a crockpot, but I cooked EVERYTHING in the Instant Pot. Pressure cookers are the way to go when you want a meal on the table fast!

At one point I was about to get out a saute pan to cook the vegetables and then I remembered the Instant Pot has a saute setting. WIN!

Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup Ingredients

chicken breasts (can be frozen)
carrots
celery
onion
butter
garlic
fresh ginger (this gives it an amazing flavor!)
noodles
bay leaf
Italian seasonings
salt & pepper
chicken broth

Can You Cook Frozen Chicken in the Instant Pot?

This is definitely a yes! I use frozen chicken breasts for this ip chicken recipe! There are plenty of times that I have no idea what’s for dinner and didn’t think to take chicken out of the freezer to thaw for dinner. Instant Pot to the rescue. The Instant Pot cooks frozen chicken in minutes.

How To Make Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup

For this chicken soup recipe, I cooked four frozen chicken breasts with one cup of water for 10 minutes on manual. (NOTE: Depending on the size/thickness of your chicken, you may need to cook them longer. I used fairly thin breasts for this recipe.)

Then I let the steam vent and removed the chicken and drained the water.

I chopped the chicken up and set it aside.

Then I put in butter on the saute setting and added the veggies and sauteed them for 5 minutes.

Next, I put in the chicken, and then add eight cups of pre-made chicken broth.

Finished with seasonings and noodles.

Then I put the top on and set the Instant Pot to the soup setting, reducing the time to 4 minutes. (Note: it takes several minutes before the Instant Pot starts calculating the four cooking minutes.)

Once the time was up, I released the steam with the quick release valve and lunch was done.

This chicken noodle soup was so flavorful. It was the perfect pick me up that I’d been looking for.

This chicken soup recipe make a whole pot of soup. It feeds our family of four an entire meal, and leaves plenty of leftovers for another day. It freezes well so I usually put leftover soup in a container in the freezer to have another day.

I’m certainly going to make it again. Instant Pot chicken noodle soup is a new family favorite.