Hey guys, welcome back to Six Sister Stuff. Today we're going to make instant pot cheesy chicken and rice. So I'm Kristen, I'm Camille, and every Monday we share an instant pot recipe with you guys. So if you are new to the instant pot or you want to try some new recipes, make sure that you like and subscribe. So besides all the videos that we share on YouTube, we also have a website called Six Sister Stuff.com where we share thousands of recipes. I think we're up to 3,000 or so recipes of simple recipes just like this. Tons more instant pot recipes, tons of family dinner ideas, just any way that we can help you get dinner on the table, we're going to make it happen. Really, we're busy moms. We all, I think with six of us together, how many kids do we have? 18? 18 and yeah, and counting. Yeah, more are going to be adults. But we have a lot of kids and so really our goal with this website was just to make life easy, simple and easy for moms, and putting dinner on the table. Yeah. All right, should we jump into this one? Let's do this. This is one of our favorites on our website. And we put it on the website not long ago and it exploded. Everyone loved it. We're showing you just some simple ways to even make it easier than the recipe that's on the website. So here's our shortcuts. Let's do it. What are we starting with? All right, let's, I'm going to have you cut up the chicken. Okay, so we're going to have like one and a half pounds to two pounds of chicken. Yeah, chicken. And I like to use the tenderloins because it just makes them cook a little bit faster. And they're nice because they're small, so they're easy to cut up. And lots of times they've already been like the fat spin, their trims. Yeah, yeah. So a lot of times they're already trimmed, it makes it really easy to cut it up. I'm just cutting it into some kind of bite-sized pieces. Well, that's perfect, especially for kids. All right. Yeah, she's cutting that. I'm going to push the saute button right here. So when you push the saute button, right now it says there's a little button that says less normal or more. We're just going to keep it out normal because it's fine. All right, so saute, then it's going to beat for you. After you push the saute button, it's going to start heating up. Once it gets hot, I kind of just test it a little bit. Once it's hot, then I add my oil and other pounds. Does it take? To get hot. Sometimes like two minutes, sometimes like five. Lots of times. Even before it's hot, I'll just start cooking. Yeah. I'm in a hurry. It is what it is. Okay, this is real nice. All right, so once it's heated up, we're just going to add what? About a tablespoon, two tablespoons of olive oil. So you're just going to drizzle that into the top of the pot. Now I like when my oil gets hot and then I do a trick and I lift my pot up, I'm just kind of wiggle my oil around so it covers all the bottom of my Instant Pot. Oh, there you go. There you go. Chris is fine. Oh, it's a hot trick. Sorry, we call it the Instant Pot. There we go. Once the oil is heated up, ready to go. Camille is going to add our chicken. Yeah, you ready? Chris can get scared to touch raw chicken. Well, that's why I'm doing it. I appreciate that. If your oil's hot, it should sizzle at this point. Yes. Our is just so warming up. But that's okay. You can hear it a little bit. Now this makes a lot of rice and other things. So this is a lot of chicken. If you have a smaller family, you could even cut this recipe in half or even in fourths. Totally. I mean, you just make sure you cut all the ingredients down, but the timing will be the same. You cook it for the same amount. All right, so once the chicken starts to cook on the bottom, I kind of just flip it around a little bit. I kind of stir as I go. Is that horrible? No. And that's what I do, too, just to make sure that it all gets evenly cooked. I'm going to throw that onion in there, too. Please do. Just to add some more flavor, well, that cook in the oil. Nice. I think that's one of my favorite smells is cooking chicken and onions together. Well, let's make it even better and add some garlic. All right, I'm going to start garlic. We're going to add just a piece or what, two cloves. So I'm just grabbing a spoon. No, it's fine. Yeah, two cloves. That sounds good. So we're just using jarred garlic. Um, a half teaspoon of this equals a clove. This is one of my favorite shortcuts. Oh, you don't have to chop fresh garlic. I think all six of us I know. Use that shortcut because we love it. I don't like pressing my garlic. Yep. Okay, so the seasonings we're going to add, I'm just doing like a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of pepper. You can totally eyeball this. Don't feel like you need to measure it out. I think a rate of race style for it in your hand and then dump it in. We're not fancy like that. Yep. If you want to add other seasonings that you like, you could, you could do some Italian seasoning. You could do a little bit more like garlic powder. If you love the taste of garlic, I mean, however you like to season it, you can add a little more. Totally works. We love like a little bit more salt. So I usually add about a tablespoon of salt into this recipe. You do. I do. I love salty things. I didn't know about you. Yep. Then something new every day. Yep. All right, so what's the chicken kind of has some browning around the edges? I mean, you can cook this as much or as little as you want. It just really is to seal in the flavor. Kind of make the chicken. I'm smatted and moisture, I would say. Yeah. And I think a little bit of flavor to it, because it's in the saute. 100%. So now from this point, it's just kind of a dump and go. Right? So we're adding in two cups of rice. Now in the recipe, it says it a little bit differently. Yeah. We're showing you, this is the simple way to make it dump and go. Like the dump and go version. Totally. All right. So I'm doing two cups of white rice. If you want to, you can rinse the rice before you dump it in. Totally up to you. Yep. I'm just going to go ahead. We don't judge you either way. If you rinse your rice or not, there's no judging. Okay, and then I'm going to do about two cups of chicken broth. Nice. Just kind of pour that right in. There we go. All right, so the secret when you're cooking rice in the Instant Pot is you want to make sure that the rice, every single kernel rice touches the liquid, because if it doesn't, you're going to have some hard pieces of rice there. So so we're going to do it. Didn't know that. Now you know. Okay, I've got half a cup of water going into you. Just some added moisture for that rice. Now I've got a can of cream of chicken soup. If you want to, if you're feeling super domestic, you can make your own. But for simplicity, I just use a can of this. You can get they make a healthier option. Reduced fat. Reduced fat. Which works right. It's coming out. There we go. Okay, so add that in there. And then the last thing we are going to throw in is a bag of frozen vegetables. And they are still frozen. They are. So good. I think works better because you're going to cook all the vegetables, rice, and chicken all at the same time. Yeah. So I think frozen vegetables works better because the milk cooks. Yeah, they won't be super salty. Yep. So all right, just dump it in. Yep. You have a good neck. Just going to mix around. Make sure all the rice is covered by the liquid. And I think we're going to go. So we have our lid now. We're all ready to go. Now remember, while we are putting this together, it's still on saute, which is okay. I guess I should put the lid on correctly. Okay, so we're putting the lid on. We're going to turn this little knob to ceiling, not venting. I can see this here. Now because it is on saute, first you have to push cancel. So you're going to push the keep warm cancel button just to turn it all the way off. Then you're going to push the manual button. Now if you don't have a manual button, you'll have a pressure cook button. It's the same thing. Manual pressure cook. You're good. All right, so then we're going to go up to six minutes. Now we can do six minutes because our chicken is little. It's already been sauteed. The rice only takes about six to seven-ish minutes to cook and the vegetables only take about two minutes to cook, but they still taste good together. Yeah, it's all kind of the same amount of time. That's why you can all cook it together. Awesome. All right, so you heard it little beep. Once it says on, you can just walk away. So it's all done cooking. We cooked it for about six minutes. You can go up to seven if you want, but because it's done, we're going to turn over to a quick release. Here we go. Once all the pressure is out, then you can open the lid. Just be aware of the steam because it gets toasty. All right, so if you can see this, now it looks like there's a lot of liquid on top, but once you mix it around, there's some rice that still needs a little bit of liquid and it will all work out together. It all evens out exactly. That's why you're doing that. You want me to jump the cheese in? Yeah. So you're going to add, is it one cup? Yeah, one cup of cheddar cheese. You can shred your own if you want or you can buy free shredded. It doesn't really matter. We always tend to buy the shredded because this makes it taste easy, but I did notice if you buy the block cheese and shred it yourself, it melts a little bit easier. So much easier, especially in this recipe, but either way, you're going to be just exactly. If you want more cheese, you can make it more cheesy, feel free to add more. That's what we did too. So after we did individual servings, we put a little more cheese on each one. Yep. It's a great idea. Yeah, that's what I like the kids. Well, is this super kid friendly? My kids love this. My too. And like you said, it makes a ton. Like we ate it for lunches all week long. Right? We're going on third meal of this. I make this just the sweetest. It's awesome. I know. It's one of our favorites now. All right. Okay. What do you think? Looking good? Looks good. Okay, should we plate it up? Yep. So at this point, you could feed it to your family. It is going to be super hot for a minute, but it's such a... It's cheesy. It's comfort food. I don't think you could ask for anything more. And then like you were saying, if you want to throw on a little bit of extra cheese, especially when it's hot, there we go. We'll get all melty on there. If you want to get a fancy little bit of color. Hot, fresh parsley. There you go. Super beautiful. Dinner is served. There we go. So we're just wondering what's your favorite food in the Instant Pot? I love comfort food like this. I love to do soups, but I'm always looking for new ideas. So leave a comment below. Let us know what your favorite thing is to make an instant pot. There we go. And if you need more Instant Pot ideas, don't forget to check us out. Every Monday, we're sharing an Instant Pot recipe. And of course, if you subscribe, you'll be able to see our notifications a little more. All right, guys. We'll see you next week. Bye!