This is a recipe for Teriyaki Chicken, served over perfect rice, both of which cook in an Instant Pot at the same time. Delicious. Reheats well.

Everyday Cooking

This dish is intensely flavorful. The sauce has excellent body. I think it works best if you create servings that are heavy on the rice. 

There’s nothing hard about this. It does take some time to do the chopping, mixing, and stirring, but the Instant Pot does the heavy lifting, and does so efficiently. What you wind up with is a comforting, consistent, day-in and day-out staple that’s nearly as good left over as it is fresh. It’s great for sharing casually with good friends. It’s equally good as a weekend meal prep that’ll leave you with microwavable leftovers during the week. 

Ingredients

• I like ¼-teaspoon of salt in this amount of rice, but you might like more. 
• I like the onion quartered and thinly sliced. This will result in onion slices that are apparent in the finished dish. If you’d rather have them blend in more, chop the onion instead. 
• If you use regular soy sauce instead of low sodium, the dish will be fine, but heavily seasoned. You might want to use 3/4-cup soy + 1/4 cup water instead of the full cup of soy. 
• A full cup of sugar is a lot – too much, I think – but surprisingly not out of the question, given the full cup of soy. I think the ½-cup is plenty. You might even consider as little as 2 Tbs. But I wouldn’t cut it out entirely.  
• 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper will give the finished sauce an aromatic quality that registers as “spicy” only way in the background. This will fade as the sauce sits until it’s nearly undetectable, so if you want something that will have more staying power, go with 1/2 teaspoon.
• The honey isn’t for sweetness. It’s for shine and texture.

Method

• The broccoli is going to wind up cooked, but crunchy. 

Social Learning

Keep in mind that when using most of the Instant Pot’s pressure-cooking functions, “Less,” “Normal,” and “More” are merely customizable timing pre-sets. So for this recipe, for instance, “10 minutes” is important, but whether you select that under “Less,” “Normal,” or “More” is completely up to you. So when selecting a timing for a chicken dish, I simply cycle through them to see which one comes closest to my desired timing, and adjust as necessary, trying at least to keep the three timing settings in low-to-high order. 

The Backstory

I’d prefer to call this dish “Chicken Teriyaki.” The “ch” and “k” right up front make it sound snackable, and putting “teriyaki” at the end leaves you with a glazy, sweet, sizzling expectation. Nonetheless, I am apparently a weirdo, and most people search for this dish with the term “Teriyaki Chicken.” 

Teriyaki Chicken

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