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Instant Pot Chinese Sticky Rice - traditional Chinese dish featuring Chinese sausage, chicken and shitake mushrooms; 12 minutes cooking time using pressure cooker setting

Instant Pot Chinese Sticky Rice

Course Main Course
Cuisine Chinese
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 32 minutes
Servings 6
Calories 302 kcal

Ingredients

Marinated Chicken

  • 10 ounces skinless boneless chicken thighs ~ 2 chicken thighs
  • 1 teaspoon soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon rice wine
  • 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
  • dash salt
  • dash black pepper

Sticky Rice

  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • 2 scallion chopped
  • 1 tablespoon ginger minced
  • 1 1/2 cups short grain sweet rice rinsed 4-5 times, drained
  • 2 links Chinese sausage chopped
  • 5 dried shitake mushrooms soaked in hot water for 30 minutes (reserve soaking liquid), chopped
  • 2 tablespoons dried shrimp soaked in hot water for 30 minutes (reserve soaking liquid), chopped
  • 1 1/2 cups reserved soaking liquid from shitake mushrooms and dried shrimp, plus some low sodium chicken broth
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons rice wine
  • 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
  • pepper to taste

Instructions

Marinated Chicken

  1. Cut chicken into 3/4" pieces and mix with soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil, salt and pepper. Let sit while preparing rest of ingredients.

Sticky Rice

  1. Turn Instant Pot to "Saute" mode. Add oil and once Instant Pot reads "Hot," add scallion and ginger. Saute a few minutes until fragrant. Add marinated chicken and saute until lightly browned. Add drained sweet rice, sausage, mushrooms, and shrimp. Saute a few minutes to release a little oil from sausage. Add reserved mushroom soaking liquid (strained) and enough chicken broth to total 1 1/2 cups of liquid, soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and pepper.

    Hit "Cancel" button and then select "Rice" mode (12 minutes). Natural release for 5 minutes, then quick release.

Nutrition Facts
Instant Pot Chinese Sticky Rice
Amount Per Serving
Calories 302 Calories from Fat 45
% Daily Value*
Fat 5g8%
Cholesterol 101mg34%
Sodium 460mg20%
Potassium 234mg7%
Carbohydrates 41g14%
Fiber 1g4%
Protein 17g34%
Vitamin A 50IU1%
Vitamin C 0.7mg1%
Calcium 29mg3%
Iron 3.1mg17%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.