Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry

Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry is comfort food. Simple recipe with just a few ingredients dumped into the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker.

With only a few ingredients and your Instant Pot DUO Plus, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker, you can make this pure comfort food in under 30 minutes.

The Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry recipe is basically a dump and push start recipe.

As you follow along and prepare the ingredients in the order listed, you simply dump them into the pot and then close the lid.

 

It’s really easy to make your own Roux, but this boxed stuff is just so much more convenient. House Foods Vermont Curry, Golden Curry and Java Curry are the brands I use most.

I’ll show you how to make your own Japanese Roux in a Instant Pot DUO Plus, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker and then you can decide.

Ingredients for Instant Pot Japanese Chicken Curry.

• Grapeseed Oil or other neutral oil
• Onions, Carrots, Fresh Garlic, Ginger Root
• Oyster Sauce option
• Chocolate option
• Salt and Pepper
• Chicken Thighs
• Chicken Broth – Homemade Chicken Bone Broth or Better than Bouillon
• Japanese Roux Blocks – a combination of House Foods Vermont Curry, Golden Curry and Java Curry

 

When cooking with peeled potatoes, it is important to soak them in water before using.

Why Soak Potatoes in Cold Water?

• Starch is what makes mashed potatoes gummy and pasty. See my recipe for the best mashed potatoes of your life.
• Soaking the potatoes in water prior to cooking will remove some of the excess starch. In my Air Fryer Potato Latke recipe, that excess starch is used in the recipe!
• It will also prevent potatoes from sticking together, when making Air Fryer French Fries or deep frying.
• This process will also prevent the oxidation of the potatoes, which causes them to turn brown.Cut potatoes begin to turn color rather quickly.

Potatoes can be soaked overnight if necessary, but 30 minutes is all that is needed.

 

Oil is always added to a preheated pot.

This gives you some time to cut the veggies.

For this recipe, a neutral oil like Grapeseed or Vegetable is optimal.

 

The ingredients get added, as they are prepped. Grab a di Oro Living Silicone Spatulas Set and just give them a toss in the oil.

With my customizable recipe and technique, your curry can have a new flavor profile, each time it is prepared.

There is a trick, taught to me by my friend Mona and wow, what a difference!

 

Fresh Garlic and Ginger Root are very often added in equal amounts.

My Homemade Ginger Garlic Paste is very handy to have on had in the refrigerator at all times.

 

I kid you not, years ago, when I first made Japanese Curry with the packaged blocks, I hated it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned why. see my Pressure Cooker Japanese Beef Curry recipe for more details.

Suffice it to say, every good Japanese Curry has a couple of extra added ingredients, so that the curry will be delicious and different from your neighbors.

Delicious Japanese Curry Extra Ingredients.

• Grated Apple – my favorite to use in Beef Curry
• Honey – my other favorite in Beef Curry
• Oyster Sauce – yummy in Chicken Curry
• Chocolate – delicious in Beef and Chicken Curry
• Coffee
• Red wine – Sweet or Dry
• Shaoxing Wine – It’s Chinese, but who’s counting?
• Sake (the kind for drinking) or Mirin
• Peanut Butter – I like this in Fish Curry the best, but yummy in pork, beef and chicken too.
• Ketchup – delicious in Chicken Curry
• Orange Marmalade – delicious in both Chicken and Beef Curry
• Mashed Banana – yummy in Beef Curry
• Fish Sauce – great in so many recipes
• Worcestershire Sauce – gives the same flavor boost as Fish Sauce
• Tonkatsu Sauce – this is great to use with all meat
• Soy Sauce – yummy in just about everything

Choose 2-3 ingredients from the above list each time you make this Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry recipe.

For this recipe, I chose bittersweet chocolate and Tonkatsu Sauce. If you use a sweet milk chocolate, then a salty second choice, like oyster sauce would be great.

 

One of the great things about this recipe is that you toss stuff into your Instant Pot DUO Plus, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker as you are prepping!

Tips and Tricks

1. Prep the potatoes before doing anything else.
2. Wait for the pot to heat before adding oil.
3. Toss ingredients (in the order listed) into the pot as you prep.
4. Use two different brands of Japanese curry blocks and mix the heat factor.

 

If using a chicken base, like Better than Bouillon Chicken Base, I like to do about 1.25 teaspoon to one cup of water.

The flavor is more intense and just really yummy. Grab a measuring cup and a my favorite flat whisk and mix it up well.

Pressure Cooker Homemade Bone Broth, obviously is dynamite in this Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry recipe.

 

Mix the spice level of the curry roux blocks. The extra hot isn’t really hot as in heat, so don’t fear the extra hot

Try the extra hot and mild, for instance using these brands –   House Foods Vermont Curry, Golden Curry and Java Curry.

Turn this Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry recipe into a one pot meal!

If you are making this a one pot meal using my Pressure Cooker Perfectly Cooked Pot In Pot Rice recipe, you will just need these two accessories. One stainless steel flat bottomed insert pan and a Stainless Steel Tall Legged Trivet/Steamer Rack.

 

There is enough liquid in the pot to perfectly cook the chicken and veggies.

The curry blocks, nicely mix in and thicken the curry.

You must serve this over Jasmine or Calrose rice. The sauce is so incredible, you will want to eat just the sauce with rice!

 

Enjoy this Pressure Cooker Japanese Chicken Curry with a glass of white wine or sake. 🙂

More Delicious Instant Pot Japanese Recipes to Try.

• Pressure Cooker Three Ingredient Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
• Pressure Cooker Chicken Lettuce Wraps
• Pressure Cooker Ghee Rice {White, Jasmine, Basmati}
• Pressure Cooker Japanese Beef Curry Stew {Instant Pot}

Kitchen Equipment and Essentials

• Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker
• J.A. Henckels Classic 8 inch Chef’s Knife
• Amco Advanced Performance 18/10 Stainless Steel Measuring Spoons
• Simply Gourmet (Dry) Stainless Steel Measuring Cups
• Anchor Hocking Glass (Liquid) Measuring Cups
• Rösle Stainless Steel Flat Whisk– a MUST have, probably my most used utensil
• di Oro Living Silicone Spatulas Set
• Rachael Ray Stoneware EVOO Oil Dispensing Bottle
• Alton Brown Salt Box
• Gravity Electric Salt and Pepper Grinder
• My FANTASTIC Teak Cutting & Charcuterie Board & Compartments
• Salbree Steamer Basket
• Ekovana Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker Stackable Pans Set
• Stainless Steel Tall/Short Trivet & Egg Cooker Set
• House Foods Vermont Curry, Golden Curry and/or Java Curry.

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