Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Casserole

Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Casserole recipe is a chicken casserole with noodles, leftover rotisserie chicken and vegetables in a creamy cheese sauce. This easy dinner takes minutes in the electric pressure cooker and is perfect comfort food for busy weeknights!

If you like quick and easy chicken recipes, you’ll love this Instant Pot chicken noodle casserole! It’s one of our favorite easy Instant Pot recipes, and it’s made from scratch with leftover rotisserie chicken, egg noodles and mixed vegetables in a cheesy cream sauce — no canned soup! Plus, it’s ready in just 30 minutes!

We make Instant Pot whole chicken or Roast Chicken in a Dutch Oven nearly once a week, so I’m always looking for easy recipes using leftover chicken. This chicken casserole with egg noodles is super easy!

This quick chicken casserole recipe is definitely a dump and go Instant Pot dinner since there is virtually no prep work needed. Just add everything to the Instant Pot pressure cooker, pressure cook it, and stir in cream and cheese at the end. It’s the perfect easy dinner for crazy busy days or when you’re too tired to cook.

If you love Instant Pot casserole recipes, try my Instant Pot tuna casserole, Instant Pot pierogi casserole or Instant Pot turkey casserole.

Ingredients

You need a few basic ingredients for this easy chicken casserole. You should find everything online or at your local grocery store.

• Cooked chicken — cubed
• Egg noodles
• Herbes de Provence seasoning or Italian seasoning
• Dried minced onions
• Sea salt
• Garlic powder
• Ground black pepper
• Chicken broth or chicken stock
• Frozen mixed vegetables
• Heavy cream
• Shredded Colby Jack cheese or cheddar blend

How to Make Instant Pot Chicken Casserole with Noodles

First, add your leftover cooked chicken to the bottom of the Instant Pot. You can cut it into smaller pieces or tear it — whichever is easier.

Next, add the uncooked egg noodles, seasoning and chicken broth. The noodles may not be completely covered in broth, but this is fine.

Just press the noodles down a little. They’ll continue to cook even after the pressure cooking is over.

Cooking Time

Pressure cook the noodles and chicken for 2 minutes on high pressure. The short cook time will give you firmer egg noodles.

If you want softer egg noodles, cook the casserole for 4 minutes. When the Instant Pot beeps, turn the vent for a quick release.

After pressure cooking, stir in mixed veggies. You can thaw them if you want, but the heat will cook them!

If you don’t have frozen veggies, you can use fresh. You’ll need to pressure cook those, though.

You might think there’s too much liquid, but believe me, it will quickly get absorbed. Egg noodles suck up a ton of liquid!

Stir in some heavy cream and shredded cheese, and you’re done!

I used to use a mix of shredded Parmesan cheese and Monterey Jack cheese. More recently I’ve been adding shredded Colby Jack or cheddar blend.

They all work. It just depends on the flavor you’re looking for.

The Colby or cheddar cheese blend make it taste more like traditional chicken pot pie. Nothing screams comfort food more than a big bowl of creamy, cheesy chicken and noodles!

How to Store and Reheat

Store leftover chicken noodle casserole in an airtight container in the refrigerator, where it’ll last for 3 to 4 days.

You can also freeze the casserole for longer storage.

Variations

There are a couple ways to customize this pressure cooker chicken recipe to your tastes.

Instead of heavy cream, use canned cream of chicken soup. Add the soup on top of the noodles before cooking, but do not stir soup in until pressure cooking is complete. Cream of mushroom soup will work as well.

Use your favorite type of noodles. I think that thick egg noodles work great with the creamy sauce, but spaghetti, fettuccini, penne, or other noodles are great options.

As far as vegetables go, you can try carrots, green beans, broccoli florets, or really any veggies you want.

I like to keep this Instant Pot meal as easy as possible, but if you don’t mind the extra step, go ahead and use fresh boneless skinless chicken breast or boneless skinless chicken thighs. You will need to cook the chicken first, so the cooking time will be longer.

If you’re looking for a delicious chicken and rice casserole you can make with brown rice or white rice, check out my Instant Pot Chicken and Rice casserole.

This easy Instant Pot chicken casserole is a great recipe for when you need a complete meal the whole family will love in a hurry! I hope you enjoy this Instant Pot casserole recipe as much as we do!

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Originally published in 2019 and updated in 2022