My first Instant Pot use: Sweet and Sour Chicken using Campbell's Cooking Sauce

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https://www.campbells.com/sauces/

https://www.campbells.com/products/sauces/sweet-sour-chicken-sauce/

Unfortunately, it doesn't show the back side with the recipe, but here is what was involved:

For the multicooker (Instant Pot) or slow cooker [1]
1 cup long grain white rice
1 1/4 skinless boneless chicken breasts or thighs (I chose the thighs) [2]
1 cup onions [2]
1 cup green or red bell pepper [2]
1 cup fresh pineapple chunks
The Campbell Sweet and Sour sauce

[1] There are also recipes for skillets and for ovens

[2] Cut in 1" pieces (for the slow cooker it says leave the chicken whole)

It took more time than I expected to gather all this and cut them into pieces. As for cooking in my Instant Pot, it took 18 minutes for preheating and a cook time of 6 minutes for a total of 24 minutes, at which I did a quick steam release per the instructions. And then it said let it sit for 7 minutes before serving. I left the lid on, was wondering if that was the right decision (was the purpose of the 7 minutes to let it cool down some, or an additional cooking time?).

Anyway, the result was OK plus. It was kind of like a very thick soup. It tasted good but not great [3]. Still, I was ready for a second helping but resisted because the first serving was large enough. I'm looking forward to consuming the leftovers.

I've been on a low-meat diet (what meat I do have is just turkey slices mostly), and, well, not many spices in my cooking, so this was a treat.

I've had the Instant Pot for about a month, and this is the first time I've actually used it.

I'm interested in trying some other Campbell sauce meals, but so far I haven't found a website page that shows the actual recipe (back side), and I can't just look at it in the store because I'm homebound with illness.

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[3] Kind of reminds me of a reporter who interviewed Mitt Romney. He mentioned that when he started in the Senate, Sen. Lisa Murkowski gifted him a lot of frozen salmon. Mitt said he didn't particularly like salmon but discovered that when smothered it with ketchup on a hamburger bun, it made for "an OK sandwich".

The reporter's reaction (paraphrasing from memory): here's someone worth over $100 million, and yet he can't afford to eat something he enjoys.