Instant Pot Cashew Chicken: Whole30, Paleo, 30 Minutes

If you make it w soy sauce, use low sodium. As it was way too salty being made w my substitutions.

I used corn starch instead of arrowroot, which ended up burning and sticking to the bottom of my instant pot... So that caused a bit of chaos. I would cook the chicken on high for 6 minutes next time. I think it was just a little too long and hurt the texture of the chicken. Can't fault the sauce.

Added some green onions to the mix with the cashews at the end! It was delicious!

I loved this! So easy. Was looking for something I could make in under 30 minutes with minimal effort. This was so fast it was crazy. Delicious too!

Chicken got kind of mealy and the flavor was just a bit weird. I did like how the sauce thickened so nicely so I might try it again with my own spice combination.

This was pretty good. A few notes: 1. I made it as a freezer meal it worked great that way. 2. I used an alternative nut (lightly salted) 3. Do Not I repeat DO NOT use all the aminos without tasting! I used about half in my recipe and that was almost too much. 😅

I couldn’t find Chinese 5 spice so left it out. I added chopped green onions at the end when I added the cashews. It turned out great!

It was tasty. Maybe a bit more side and a bit more color. I thought I'd take good with white rice but it tasted a lot more better with brown rice. Definitely will have this recipe again but at hell peppers and chilli peppers and more color. Also, I didn't have a manual button. I'd suggest for anyone who doesn't have a manual button on their instant pot to just continue sautéeing it. Tell me how it goes.

Added cashews in with chicken before setting pressure and cooking. Chinese five spice is great, worked well with the ketchup/other spices.

I think this would have been really good without the five spice powder. Nobody here liked it because of that.

Would do about half the soy sauce next time. 1/4 cup instead of 1/2 cup. But it was great!

I added zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, red and green pepper, and purple and white onion. My instapot didn’t do great with the starch powder/flour while browsing the chicken. I think I’d omit that because it made a mess. It turned out great though, the flavor was on point.

Kinda salty, but fine

I'm not sure what the person who left the first review is talking about. It is whole30 friendly. The instruction notes tell you what to substitute. I'm not sure how it could have burnt in an instant pot if the instructions were followed exactly. I didn't even follow it exactly and it still came out great. My family ate it up quickly and still asked for more even though I made it with double the meat. I'm definitely going to make this again.