![]() If Cooking Frozen Chicken Breasts in Instant Pot… Once the pressure cooker has finished the 10 minutes cooking time, simply flick the quick release the lever (I use the handle of a wooden spoon to avoid the steam), allow the steam to escape, and use tongs to pull the chicken straight from the pot to a cutting board to shred, slice or dice for whatever means you’re it preparing for. BOOM! You instantly have cooked chicken breast that is juicy and tender and ready to eat as is or use as a base for so many more recipes.Be sure your chicken has an internal temperature of 165° F to be cooked through.Set the cooking time for just 10 minutes.Add 1 cup of water plus kosher salt and black peppercorns.To cook more chicken breasts at once, layer the chicken side by side if frozen or stacked if fresh. I typically cook 3 breasts at at time for my little family, which yields about 6 cups of shredded chicken.Use a metal rack with handles if you’d like, or you can skip the rack if you prefer. Remove the chicken breast from the fridge or freezer and add to the Instant Pot insert.I tend to cook skinless boneless breasts most often, simply for the ease of it. With that said, here’s what you’ll need to make pressure cooker chicken breasts: I wanted you to have a basic Instant Pot chicken recipe so that you could easily use the cooked meat in any dish you desire. ![]() ![]() I kept this Instant Pot chicken breast recipe super simple and didn’t doctor up the meat with additional seasonings or sauces. See more: 20 Healthy Dinners to Make In the Instant Pot That’s why this method has been my “what’s for dinner” meal saver more than once. Using a pressure cooker shaves off valuable hands-on cooking time, and unlike cooking on the stove top, there’s no monitoring with a watchful eye for liquids boiling over, or turning the temp down, or even stirring…instead, cooking can be a completely hands-off affair.īut the real beauty of cooking chicken breasts in the Instant Pot is you can use either fresh or still frozen chicken breasts and literally toss them into the Instant Pot with no defrosting needed. Using a pressure cooker or Instant Pot to cook any ingredient-especially when you’re meal prepping nutritious meals -is a time saving game changer. So when I received requests for an Instant Pot version, how could I not oblige?Īnd once I started cooking chicken breasts STRAIGHT FROM THE FREEZER in my Instant Pot, I realized I needed to share with you how you can do the same.Ĭooking Chicken Breasts In the Instant Pot I’ve shared my recipes for the Best Grilled Chicken Breast and t he Best Baked Chicken Breasts and you guys love them. The recipe that nobody’s ever thought of before.īut the reality is, while those recipes are fun to bookmark and make every so often, it’s the basics for daily cooking that we really need. Like how to cook the basic boneless chicken breast, and how to cook it fast. It seems like all too often us recipe creators, aka food bloggers, get caught up in creating that totally unique recipe. How many times have you come home and realized you’ve forgotten to pull the chicken from the freezer for tonight’s dinner? If you’re like me, it’s way too many.īut since I discovered how to cook both frozen chicken breasts and/or fresh chicken breasts in the Instant Pot, those days are over. ![]() Healthy boneless chicken breasts can be shredded, sliced, or diced, and used as the base for countless healthy recipes, and when you cook them in the Instant Pot pressure cooker they can go from frozen OR fresh chicken breasts to fully cooked with just 10 minutes cooking time. ![]()
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