Keto Instant Pot Asian Chicken Soup
You will love this fun take on a Keto Instant Pot chicken soup! Chicken thighs are simmered until tender and falling apart, creating a delicious, flavorful broth. Vegetables are added to the broth, including a small amount of carrot, shiitake mushrooms, onion, bell peppers, and snap peas. Creamy coconut milk is also added to the broth to make it rich and delicious. A dash of fish sauce brings out all the umami flavors of the broth. Once the vegetables are perfectly cooked, the hot soup is ladled into bowls, each topped with freshly sliced scallions.
How to Make It
Step 1
Place the chicken thighs in the bottom of the Instant Pot. Add in the ginger, garlic, and scallions. Gently pour in the water so the water doesn’t splash up. Place the lid on the Instant Pot and set it on high pressure for 25 minutes.
Step 2
Once the time has passed, do a quick release on the Instant Pot. Remove the chicken to a cutting board. Shred the meat from the bones and discard the bones and fat. Remove the aromatics from the broth. Place the meat back into the pot.
Step 3
While you prepare the other vegetables, rehydrate the mushrooms. To rehydrate the mushrooms, soak them in very hot water for 10-15 minutes. Drain the water. Cut the stems out and cut them in half before adding them to the pot. Remove the stem of the bell pepper while leaving the seeds in the center intact. Discard the seeds. Dice the bell pepper into a small dice. Peel and halve the onion. Dice this in a fine dice as well. Peel and slice the carrot on a bias into thin slices. Add the whole snap peas.
Step 4
Add the coconut milk. Place the lid back on the Instant Pot and cook for 1 minute. Do a quick release. While the soup is cooking, slice some fresh scallions to top the soup. Taste the soup, adding the fish sauce and more salt as desired.
Step 5
Serve the soup hot! Top it with fresh scallions. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- Chicken Broilers Or Fryers Thigh Meat Only Raw
1.5 lb
- Coarse Kosher Salt
1 tbsp
- Ginger
2 tbsp
- Garlic
3 clove
- Scallions
0.25 cup, chopped
- Water
4 cup
- Canned Coconut Milk
12 fl oz
- Mushrooms Shiitake Dried
0.5 oz
- Carrots, raw
1 small – 5 3/4″ long or less
- bell pepper
0.75 cup, chopped
- Onion
0.75 cup, chopped
- Snow peas (edible pea pods), raw
3 oz
- Scallions
0.25 cup, chopped
- Fish sauce (nam pla or nuoc mam)
1 tbsp