Ingredients: 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika 1/4 teaspoon cumin Salt and pepper, to taste 2 cups chicken broth or water, divided 2 cups white wine or dry red wine 3 tablespoons honey or brown sugar, divided 3 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot powder, divided Instructions:
- Preheat the Instant Pot to high pressure. Add the chicken breasts and cook for 5 minutes per side, until cooked through. Remove from the pressure cooker and let cool slightly. 2. In a large bowl, mix together the olive oil, garlic powder, onion powder and smoked paprika. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Add 1 cup of chicken broth or water to the Instant Pot and stir well to combine. 3. Once everything is combined in the pot, turn on the heat to low and let simmer for 30 minutes. 4. Meanwhile, in a small bowl whisk together 2 cups of white wine or dry red wine (or 1 tablespoon honey), 3 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot powder (if using), 1 tablespoon milk (if desired) and 1/4 cup of water until smooth. Pour this mixture into the Instant Pot with the cooked chicken breasts and stir well to combine everything evenly before turning on the heat to high pressure again. Cook for 15 minutes more until done!
This Instant Pot BBQ chicken is perfect for Superbowl game days or your next kids’ game lunch. You can make everything from, burgers barbecue chicken, chicken sandwiches, tacos, and nachos to loaded fries or baked potato full of pull-apart chicken with bbq shredded chicken. Also, pulled pork burgers are another great option.
Barbecue Pulled Chicken Presssure Cooker
The possibilities are pretty much up to your imagination. It’s a cheap and easy recipe that takes about 30 minutes to make. If you stick to the chicken recipe and skinless chicken breast each serving will have around 19 grams of protein with just 2.7 grams of carbs and 167 calories. Plus I have added some substitution notes for using chicken breast instead of chicken thighs in case you need to make your batch even lower in calories. But enough talk, let’s get into it!
How to Make BBQ Instant Pot Pulled Chicken
You’ll find a recipe for instant pot chicken step by step below so you can see what your Instant Pot BBQ chicken should look like. I’ve added ingredient substitution ideas also. This instant pot bbq chicken is easy – but you can also use drumsticks, chicken wings, or even leftover chicken.
First Coat boneless skinless chicken breast in olive oil and a bbq chicken seasoning blend.
The recipe calls for chicken breast, but you can use skinless chicken thighs. Chicken thighs do have a small amount of extra fat in which helps makes them slightly tastier. If you have frozen chicken breasts it is best to let them thaw first. For the bbq seasoning blend – I will cover it here – also you later you will add some bbq sauce (you could also use homemade bbq sauce if you have the time)
Turn On The Cook the Instant Pot’s sauté function
Make sure your Instant Pot is hot before adding the bbq chicken. You want a quick sear on both sides to create the Maillard reaction for extra taste in this instant pot bbq chicken recipe. If you are short of time you can get away with just throwing everything in and pressure cooking and the instant pot bbq chicken will still taste great but the few minutes extra of searing will add more taste.
Now Put In Cooking chicken with bbq sauce on high pressure for 5 minutes.
Chicken and barbecue sauce are a great match, Now choose your favorite bbq sauce. I like Primal Kitchen Unsweeted Classic BBQ Sauce. Just enjoy choosing any easy bbq sauce chicken will work. Make sure you mix the chicken with the sauce bbq and get some on the bottom to deglaze the pot before sealing so you do not get the “burn” warning.
Shred the cooked chicken
Take out the chicken and put in a separate bowl and shred with a couple of forks. With any pulled chicken bbq recipe reducing the remaining barbecue sauce will give you a more intense flavor – turn the sauté function on the Instant Pot to reduce the sauce after you take out the chicken and it can reduce while you shred the chicken in a separate bowl. It really is great having an electric pressure cooker they are so versatile and really easy to make pressure cooker bbq chicken.
Broil your pulled bbq chicken.
To get extra taste and make it slightly crispy you can simply transfer your bbq pulled chicken to a baking sheet and broil in the oven. If you have an air fryer then you can also use this function. But broiling is quick and easy – just set your oven to broil and watch after 3 minutes to make sure they do not burn. And that’s it – you have made an easy one of the best shredded bbq chicken recipes.
Serving Your Instant Pot Barbecue Chicken
Now if you’d like to get creative with your pulled BBQ chicken here is where you start – a hamburger bun comes to mind – and that is really easy with a bit of coleslaw and maybe extra barbeque sauce – even a sprinkle of onion powder. However, you end up serving your Instant Pot pulled BBQ chicken you will enjoy it – shredded bbq chicken made easy with this instant pot recipe.
