Instant Pot Shredded Chicken. Combine chicken breasts, water, salt, and pepper in a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®). Place broth, seasoning salt, Italian seasoning and pepper into the Instant Pot inner pot. Add the chicken breasts (no trivet necessary!) and put the lid on.
How To Make Shredded Chicken In The Instant Pot: To make this Instant Pot chicken recipe, simply… Combine the ingredients in the Instant Pot. Add the chicken breasts, seasoning and chicken stock. Put the chicken in the instant pot or pressure cooker, sprinkle it evenly with the seasonings, and then pour over the broth. You can cook Instant Pot Shredded Chicken using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Instant Pot Shredded Chicken
- Prepare of Olive oil to coat pan.
- It's 1 of Garlic clove, minced.
- It's of Garlic powder.
- It's of Paprika.
- You need of Chili pepper powder.
- Prepare of Black pepper.
- Prepare of Salt.
- It's 3 of Chicken breasts (boneless).
- It's 1 of chicken broth cube.
- You need of Salsa (6 tablespoons).
- Prepare of Water to cover.
Put the lid on the instant pot and set the valve to sealing. Place chicken into the Instant Pot. Sprinkle seasoning mix, salt and pepper on top of the chicken. Use fresh or frozen chicken breast for this pulled chicken recipe.
Instant Pot Shredded Chicken instructions
- Add olive oil to pot to coat, maybe 3 tablespoons? And set pot to saute..
- Add Minced garlic (1:1 ratio to chicken breasts) to pot, along with any needed spices (mine are: chili powder, garlic powder, black pepper, salt, paprika) and let sautee for 5 minutes..
- Add thawed chicken breasts, dissolved chicken seasoning cubes (1 per 3 breasts), salsa (2 tablespoons per breast), and enough water to cover the chicken fully. Pressure cook for 10 minutes, then allow to depressurize..
- Strain out, shred chicken, and put back in long enough to allow absorption of flavors..
Add bbq sauce and you have delicious bbq chicken sandwiches. How To Make Instant Pot Shredded Chicken: Add your chicken breasts, fresh or frozen to the bottom of your Instant Pot. Season the breasts as evenly as you can, then pour over the chicken broth. Place the lid on the pot and set the valve to sealing. After cooking, you can shred the chicken breast directly in the pressure cooker using two forks.