Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps | Recipes From A Pantry (2024)

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Looking for healthy lunch or dinner option that is quick and easy to make? Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps are the answer!

Packed full of delicious flavor, yet a light and healthy choice that is suitable for Low Carb, Keto, Paleo, Whole30 and Gluten Free diets. Post includes Weight Watchers points.

This Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wrap recipe is light and healthy, and it’s light on the wallet too! A deliciously satisfying dish that comes together quickly and easily, with ingredients you’ve probably already got in your kitchen.

Peeps, if your life is anything like mine, things are crazy busy! Between work, school, and all the various activities, there’s just not enough time in the day. But I still want to feed my family healthy, homemade meals.

So I’m always on the hunt for healthy recipes that are super flavorful and satisfying, but come together quickly and easily. And let me tell you, these Instant Pot Chicken Salsa Lettuce Wraps do not disappoint.

Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Wraps – Why You’ll Love Them

Not only are Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps healthy and affordable, they are super simple to make. So this is a great recipe for cooking beginners or anyone new to the wonderful world of the Instant Pot.

Yeap. You can’t go wrong with this Salsa Chicken Instant Pot recipe on your meal plan. It’s soooo versatile, you can serve it up all sorts of ways. Plus, it’s easy to double or even triple and make when you need to feed a crowd. We’re talking game day lunches, potlucks, and family taco nights.

Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps

So, are you ready to find out just how simple it is to makeInstant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps? Gather up your ingredients and I willshow you……

How to MakeInstant Pot Salsa Chicken

1. Pour the Chicken Broth into the Instant Pot insert and add in chicken breasts.
2. Next of your Salsa Chicken Instant Pot recipe, mix the taco seasoning with the salsa and add it on top of the chicken breasts. DO NOT MIX.
3. Cover your Instant Pot and set the valve to the sealing position.
4. Select Manual/Pressure Cooker Setting, and set to high pressure for 8 mins (for thin chicken breasts) or 10 mins for thicker cut chicken breasts.
5. Allow for a complete Natural Pressure Release. Then transfer the Instant Pot Chicken Salsa to a plate and shred it.
6. Set the Instant Pot to sauté mode and cook the remaining liquid until it reduces to about half.
7. Turn off the heat, then add the shredded chicken back in and stir to combine.
8. Serve the shredded chicken in lettuce wraps with the toppings of your choice.

How To Shred Chicken

Choose from one of these three methods to quickly and easily shred chicken:

• Hold a fork in each hand and pull the chicken in opposite directions to shred.
• Instead of twoforks, you can use a hand mixer on lowspeed to shred your salsa chicken
• You can evenuse a stand mixer to easily shred chicken. Place the cooked chickenin the bowl, and use the paddle attachment, set the mixer to medium and let itrun until chicken is shredded.

SalsaChicken Instant Pot Recipe Tips

• Cooking time listed does not include time for the Instant Pot to come up to pressure or for the pressure to release.
• Do NOT mix the chicken and salsa together when you add to the Instant Pot insert. You want to keep that salsa off the bottom of the Instant Pot and avoid that dreaded burn notice.
• In order to stick to Keto, Paleo and Whole30 dietary guidelines, make sure to check the ingredients in your taco seasoning.

Can You Make Instant Pot Salsa Chicken With Frozen Chicken ?

Since this healthy low carb meal is all about being quick and convenient, you can absolutely use frozen chicken breasts for your Instant Pot Chicken Salsa. You will need to add on a few mins to the cook time, depending on the cut of your chicken breasts. Check the chicken for doneness and add more time as needed.

Can YouAssemble Instant Pot Salsa Chicken in Advance?

You can assemble the wraps in advance and refrigerate until needed. Do keep in mind that adding the filling to the wraps in advance may result in a softer wrap, which may make them a bit more difficult to eat.

For meal prep or packing lunchboxes, pack wraps in individual food storage containers, then keeping in the fridge or an insulated cooler bag. When you’re ready to eat, just unpack and enjoy. Easy Peasy!

Chicken Freezer Meals

Chicken freezer meals are so perfect for meal prep, and this recipe for Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Wrap is one of the easiest to prepare.

I just loooove to whip up a big batch of salsa chicken to package and freeze (minus the wraps, of course) for later use. Follow these simple steps for totally fuss-free freezing and thawing:

Howto Freeze Instant Pot Salsa Chicken

• Let the chicken cool down then transfer into these very handyZiploc freezer bags.
• Squeeze out all the extra air and seal the bags.
• Label the bags and then lay them flat in the freezer.
• Store the salsa chicken in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Howto Thaw Instant Pot Salsa Chicken

• Remove chicken from the freezer the night before needed and let it thaw in the fridge.
• For a faster thaw, you can place the bagged chicken into a microwave and thaw according to the microwave’s instructions.
• Transfer the thawed salsa chicken to a bowl and reheat in a microwave.
• Or, transfer into a saucepan and reheat on the stovetop over low to medium heat.

Chicken Salsa Instant Pot Toppings

You can top Instant Pot Salsa Chicken with all sorts of delicious additions. I chose to keep this recipe dairy free, but you can add cheese, sour cream or yogurt if you prefer. And check out these other toppings you may want to try on your Salsa Chicken Instant Pot Wraps:

• avocado slices
• guacamole
• pico de gallo
• cauliflower rice
• black beans, refriedbeans or pinto beans (keep dietary restrictions in mind when choosing toppingchoices)

Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Variations

Folks, this is suuuuch a versatile recipe. Serving Instant Pot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps is just one of the many, many ways you can use salsa chicken. Here are just a few other ideas to get you started:

• Try serving Instant Pot Salsa Chicken over a bed of rice to create a delicious salsa chicken rice bowl.
• Or use this recipe to make perfect Instant Pot Quinoa and prepare a Salsa Chicken Quinoa Salad.
• How about Taco Tuesday, salsa chicken style?
  Serve it as part of a build-your-own burrito bar, or make into quesadillas.
• Want to go a different route? Make these yogurt flatbreads to use as wraps.

InstantPot Salsa Chicken Lettuce Wraps Serving Suggestions

• Instant Pot Mexican Rice
• Air Fryer Mexican Corn on the Cob
• And if not following a low carb diet, I highly recommend making these amazing homemade corn tortillas.

MoreDelicious Wrap Recipes

• Smashed Chickpea and Avocado Wraps
• Spicy Yoghurt Chicken Lettuce Wraps
• Vegan Rainbow Veggie Tortilla Wraps

Top 3 Ways The Instant Pot Helps YouEat Healthy

1. Cooking with the Instant Pot means you can serve up a fresh, healthy meal in less time than it takes to hit the localdrive-thu or order takeout. It really is faster than fast food!
2. It’s soooooo easy. Add your healthy ingredients to the Instant Pot and then just set it and forget it while the Instant Pot does the rest ofthework.
3. Meal Prep is a breeze!The Instant Pot makes it so quick and simple to whipup allsorts of dishesin advance so you eat healthy all weeklong.

InstantPot Salsa Chicken Weight Watchers Points

There are 0 (yeap, zero!) Freestyle SmartPointsin a serving of these Keto Chicken Wraps.

More Instant Pot Chicken Recipes

If you like this Salsa Chicken Instant Pot recipe, then you’ll want to check out these other quick, easy and delicious Instant Pot recipes:

• Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup
• Dump and Start Instant Pot African Cinnamon Peanut Butter Chicken
• Instant Pot Chicken Fajitas

Instant Pot Recipe Binder

This awesome 30-page Instant Pot Recipe Binder Printable gives you everything you need and all in one place. It contains all sorts of easy-to-use tools and helpful information to give you a truly organized and easily accessible Instant Pot recipe collection.

What This Instant Pot Recipe Binder Includes:

• 1 Instant Pot Recipes Binder Cover
• 1 Instant Pot Recipe Page
• 9 Recipe Category Cover Pages (mains, appetizers, desserts, sides, drinks, 15-minute meals, pantry recipes, frugal and a blank page for you to customize)
• 7 Specialty Category Cover Pages (low carb, paleo, vegan, vegetarian, keto, Weight Watchers, gluten free)
• 1 Kitchen Conversion Sheet
• 3 Inventory Sheets (pantry, fridge, freezer)
• 2 Instant Pot Cooking Times Cheat Sheets
• 2 Pre-Filled Instant Pot recipes (that can be made right away!)
• 1 Notes and Tips Page

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