![]() ![]() This instant pot chicken breast recipe is a terrific alternative to baking chicken, when you don’t want to heat up the oven and entire house. Thanks to the Instant Pot and a little bit of meal prepping, you’ll always have delicious sliced or shredded chicken to put over salads, chop into pasta dishes or soup, or sprinkle on pizza. Juicy chicken breasts cooked in the instant pot are ideal to keep on hand for a quick lunch or easy dinner on a busy weeknight. How to Cook Chicken Breasts in the Instant Pot.Recipes that Use Instant Pot Chicken Breasts.Ingredients in Instant Pot Chicken Breasts.You’ll be amazed at how juicy, tender, and flavorful the Instant Pot Whole Chicken is. This alone, however, won’t give you a crispy skin, but you can still get it! Just place the fully cooked chicken on a broiler pan after it’s done in the Instant Pot and pop it under your broiler for several minutes until you get the color and crispiness you want.Īnd that’s it! Real, homemade, “rotisserie” chicken anytime you want it. Now, if you’re looking for a nice, crispy skin on your chicken, you can get that too (I usually discard the skin when I use rotisserie Instant Pot chickens because I’m typically shredding the chicken to use in a recipe so the skin not important (like for this awesome White Chicken Chili.) First, you can sear the chicken using the sauté function in the Instant Pot before you add the trivet and water to give the skin a nice golden brown color. Make sure to keep that chicken carcass to make homemade Bone Broth in your Instant Pot. It’s perfect every time! (See full recipe below.) To make an Instant Pot Whole Chicken, simply season it well, put the whole chicken on the trivet in the Instant Pot, pour 1 cup water in the bottom of the pot, secure the lid, select Pressure Cook, then set the timer for 30 minutes. Check out this video to see the Instant Pot Whole Chicken in action! If I need more chicken, I’ll use my 6 quart Duo and cook a larger chicken. I used a 4-pound chicken, which puts out the perfect amount of chicken for soups, casseroles, or chicken salads. ![]() Here’s the great thing about cooking an Instant Pot whole chicken… you can do it in any Instant Pot you have! This whole chicken was cooked in my latest Instant Pot acquisition – the NEW Instant Pot Duo PLUS Mini (it’s a 3 quart). I love the Instant Pot Mini for our RV and for meals for 2-4 people. And cooking a whole chicken in the Instant Pot is a piece of cake! (Yeah, I’ve made cake in the Instant Pot too… lol!)Īs mentioned above, I may or may not have multiple Instant Pots (ok. But whole fryer chickens are still a great value. (Costco might be the exception to that… you can still get an OMG-that’s-the-hugest-chicken-I’ve-ever-seen rotisserie chicken on the cheap!) So now, what used to be a quick and inexpensive way to bring a meal together is starting to cost a lot more. If you haven’t noticed, stores have been slowly but consistently increasing the prices of those always-convenient rotisserie chickens. ![]() Well, guess what? I’ve discovered the Instant Pot whole chicken and I’ll likely never be buying a rotisserie chicken again! They’re also great to buy ahead, pull the meat off the bone, and bring along any camping trip for an easy throw it together at the last minute meal when out enjoying a wonderful camping experience in the great outdoors. They’re a great way to pull together a meal in no time. I think we’re all a bit spoiled by having delicious, juicy, ready-made rotisserie chickens available at nearly every grocery store. So delicious. (Exciting news!! My Instant Pot Authorized Cookbook is now available on Amazon! Check it out here!) But I might have a new favorite (warning… I do seem to call everything I make in the Instant Pot my “new favorite” because everything has been so amazing!) Here it is… The Instant Pot Whole Chicken! So easy. I’ve done all kinds of recipes in my various Instant Pots – fabulous black beans, fall off the bone ribs, and awesome steel cut oatmeal, to name a few. The more I use it, the more I use it, the more I use it… You get the point. By now you all know how much I LOVE my Instant Pot (all of my Instant Pots!). ![]()
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