Chicken. Healthy, versatile, fairly easy to fix. This recipe is way easy! To make Instant Pot: Easy Shredded Chicken, you will only use the Instant Pot, a mixing bowl, and a hand mixer. And the things you can do with shredded chicken! Chicken salad, chicken on a salad, BBQ chicken sandwich or on a potato, chicken nachos… the sky is the limit!
We tried shredded chicken a few times until it turned out the way we wanted it. Our first couple of tries, the chicken seemed either dry or rubbery. Now it comes out moist and delicious.
What you will need:
- Instant Pot
- Hand mixer
- Mixing Bowl
- 4-5 lbs of boneless chicken breast thawed
- 1 med onion
- 2 cups of chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
We ordered our Instant Pot from Amazon on Black Friday 2017 and paid much less than retail. Definitely a good time to pick one up. Now, to get on with it!
Instructions for Instant Pot; Easy Shredded Chicken
- Put the Instant Pot on SAUTE and add the 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Our IP came with a wire rack to place inside, but we don’t use it for this recipe.
- While the IP heats up, dice the medium onion, then put it in the IP for a minute or two.
- While the onion sautes, unwrap the 4 lbs of boneless chicken breasts and pat dry. Add salt and pepper to taste and place in the IP.
- Pour in 2 cups of chicken broth, close the lid, making sure the toggle on the top of the lid is set to SEALING.
- Press the POULTRY button and set on 7
- When the IP beeps that it’s ready, allow it to slow release for 5 minutes, then you can manually release.
- Remove the chicken and place in mixing bowl.
- Add 1/4 cup of broth and let the chicken rest in the bowl for about 5 minutes.
- Now, the best part – using the mixer to shred the chicken. If you’ve ever used a fork to shred your chicken, you won’t anymore. This is so easy and so much quicker! I put our mixer on the lowest setting to start, sometimes moving it up one setting after about half the chicken is shredded.
- After shredding, if I’m not making anything with it right then, I put the chicken in a storage container, being sure to add the broth, and stick it in the fridge until I’m ready.
Easy as that! Now you have Easy Shredded Chicken for several meals. Let your imagination run wild!