Chicken Tips

If your having trouble with dry and rubber Chicken, you may want to try a couple of my recipes, and notice the cook times.
IMPORTANT TO NOTICE… Organic Chicken doesnt have solution injected into it like regular chicken does so to still get tender and Juicy Breasts Think about Low Pressure cooking and for 3 min in the pot with 10 min NPR see pic.

this is well seasoned normal sized Organic Breasts. 1 tsp Better than Bullion Chicken 1 c water. Pressure cook selected on LOW pressure , time 3 min 10 min NPR.

Chicken Breasts. IP
Rice a Roni Recipe. Rice a Roni IP with or without Chicken.
Chicken Cacciatore IP
Important tip… Bring Meat to room temperature before cooking.

This is 3/30 (3 min 30 min NPR)

These Chicken Breasts were the Largest Chicken Breasts that I had ever seen, …over 1.25 LBs each, so I cooked them on purpose In the Instant Pot 8q Duo Crisp+ Air Fryer, pressure cooked on Hi Pressure for 5 min and 20 min NPR. And then did 5 min under the Air Fryer @ 400° .

This is the bottom of my 8qt. Each Breast Half was over 1.25Lbs! ( 1 1/4 lbs)
Chicken was not as pink as appears in the pic, and the juices ran clear.
Tender and Juicy and Flavorful TIL the last Bite!

Chicken is so often over cooked in the IP….so if you follow these tips, just remember that if it’s not quite all the way done, you can always use Sauté for a couple of minutes. Just put the lid back on, and turn vent to Venting. Turn the pot off and back on to Saute, but don’t leave, it takes just a minute or two. Also, very often, over processing them on HI pressure drives flavor out of the chicken, and doing a QR, even after Low pressure makes the chicken a little tougher than desired. I mean, not bad, but not perfect either.
This method of cooking chicken can also be cooked with teriyaki sauce or tandoori season or whatever seasoning that you choose.

For more shreddable chicken, add a minute or two more to the up front cook time.

For the video of the chicken Experiment,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/InstantPotCommunity/permalink/1485867368173913

Bone in and Skin on Large Breasts. See next picture for time.

This was two large Organic Breasts, well seasoned. Cooked at 4/20. They were tender and juicy all the way to the last point of the end, and packed with flavor.

This was 4 small to med sized Bone in Skin on thighs, cooked on the Rice setting with QR, on purpose for the sake of experimenting, because the rice setting is 12 min at Low pressure and recommended QR at the end for the rice. The Meduim Thigh was almost done so I just put the lid on for a minute more. No other action. I was Not thrilled with it being a tad bit tougher than I was looking for. It may have just been the chicken, so, my next experiment will be using the Rice setting for 8 min with 5 min NPR. And if I’m not happy, then I’ll do rice, 10/5… see where I’m going with this?
Better too little time than too much.


This was 3/30 …..3 min manual, and 30 min NPR. They were very tender and juicy and full of flavor.