Pressure Cooker Tomato Basil Chicken Breast Recipe. (2024)

This Pressure Cooker Tomato Basil Chicken Breast recipe is sponsored by the Crock-Pot® brand. All opinions are mine alone

I just had our fourth baby a couple weeks ago, and the transition to being a mother of four has been just as expected: a little difficult! I was planning on everything being a little crazier around here and being preoccupied with feeding a newborn around the clock, but I'd forgotten how much I'd have to scale back on my to-do list. As in, where I used to get 10 things done in a day, 1 or 2 is now a healthy expectation! I'd like to say that getting wholesome meals on the table has remained a priority, but with a newborn, my cooking window has gotten much shorter. I may only have a few minutes here or there to be working on the family dinner, so time-consuming menus have been set aside for the time being. You can see how when offered the chance to try out the Crock-Pot Express Crock Multi Cooker, I jumped at it! Any help in the kitchen would be appreciated, especially when the word "express" is in the name!

We are so excited to share with you our thoughts on the brand new Crock-Pot® Express Crock Multi Cooker! Our original recipe for Pressure Cooker Tomato Basil Chicken Breast is absolutely delicious, and we've created a week-long meal plan for you so that you can experience new recipes and see new ways of cooking with this fabulous new product! Also, be sure to check out our Pressure Cooker Pot Roast recipe for another delicious meal and another week-long meal plan.

This was my first experience with a multi- cooker, and I was so ready and excited to try it out! I've had friends rave about their latest recipes that were thrown together in 15 minutes or less, and being a food blogger, I was feeling like I absolutely needed to see for myself what this was all about. The Crock-Pot® Express Crock Multi Cooker met all my expectations with the first recipe I tried. True to its claims, meals can go from ingredients in the fridge to a finished dish on the table in minutes, without compromising the delicious taste of being slow-cooked. Nothing about it tastes "instant".

My husband was a little skeptical when another appliance showed up on our doorstep until I explained to him how this was not just another slow cooker! Looking at this front panel, you can see how this goes beyond an "on" and "off" button, or just a high and low feature. You've got different pre-programmed cooking methods built into the control panel like steam, slow cook, keep warm, and my favorite: brown/sauté. You can further customize your cooking method with buttons for specific foods, such as meat/stew, beans/chili, rice/risotto, yogurt, poultry, dessert, soup, and multigrain! Beyond that, you can always adjust the pressure and temperature to higher or lower as needed. You can be sure that whatever you are cooking is done exactly right in this Crock-Pot® Express Crock Multi Cooker! It can cook meals 70% faster than traditional cooking.

Anxious to see what this multi-cooker was all about, I wanted to start by composing a recipe that included some of my favorite ingredients: chicken breast, tomatoes, pesto, and lots of mozzarella.