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Instant Pot Whole Chicken. These four words will make your day and solve your dinner woes. Are you looking for a flavorful, tender Instant Pot Whole ChickenRecipe that is easy? You have to try cooking a chicken in an Instant Pot. Why? 1. It is such an easy recipe. 2. The chicken meat turns out so tender and moist.
Not what you want for dinner tonight? Check out our other Instant Pot Recipes.
This makes the perfect dinner for any night of the week! After cooking your whole chicken, let it rest, slice it, and serve it with a side dish and a vegetable. Or use the chicken meat for chicken tacos or burritos, or even use it for chicken sandwiches… If you don’t have an Instant Pot yet, you can try any of these easy chicken recipes.
Lime Chicken is a 30-minute recipe perfect if you are in a hurry.
Honestly, we love chicken dinners and cook chicken all the time, so it made sense to try making an Instant Pot chicken recipe. I hope you like ours because we think it’s a winner, winner chicken dinner! We always useorganic chicken, which you can get online or in your local grocery store.
Instant Pot Whole Chicken
I can’t believe it’s already been a year since I decided to get my Instant Pot! I grabbed it last year on Cyber Monday. How ironic that this chicken recipe landed on the exact day I decided to see what all the fuss was about cooking with an Instant Pot.
I’m happy to say I have enjoyed using mine all year long. During tennis season with Sammie, it saved me more than a few times from getting dinner on the table fast. You can see a few other Instant Pot recipes we made at the end of today’s post.
As I make more recipes in my Instant Pot, I promise to share them. If you are on the fence about getting one, I say hop on board. You won’t regret it. For our family of 3 (or 4), the 6-quart is perfect. If you have a larger family, get the8-quart Instant Pot , as there needs to be space at the top where liquids don’t go over.
Now, that you know that let’s get cooking this chicken dinner!
Instant Pot Whole Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
Be sure to cut your vegetables on a clean cutting board. Keep your chicken separate from vegetables until you add them to the chicken.
2 white onions (or yellow if you prefer, which is sweeter)
3 garliccloves
2 limes
1 poblano pepper (or jalapeno pepper) chopped Or for a sweeter flavor profile, use a red bell pepper.
Then wash your hands with soap and water. Set your chicken to the side.
Cut your onion into quarters
Cut your limes into quarters
Seed (scrape seeds out with a knife) and chop your poblano pepper ( Use care and wash hands immediately after handling peppers.)
Peel your garlic cloves
Stuff your chicken with onion, garlic, and lime
Spice rub your chicken (wash your hands with soap and water)
Place the instant pot rack onto the bottom of the pot
Add some onion, garlic to the bottom of the pot
Then, place the stuffed chicken in the pot breast side up
Add chicken broth
Set cook time to PRESSURE COOK, and move pressure valve to SEALING position (proper setting)
Cook for 20-26 minutes, depending on the size of your chicken. (6 minutes per pound*ref) The internal temperature in the thigh should be at least 165°F. Test it by using an instant-read thermometer. If not done, cook a few minutes longer.
When done, you will need to let the pot release pressure; Leave the valve in the SEALING position and let it release naturally. (If in a hurry, wait at least 10 minutes (follow your Instant Pot manual), then carefully push the SEALING valve to VENTING- DO NOT do this before the 10-minute countdown after the cooker is done cooking. )
Ta-Da!
Instant Pot Chicken
When visiting back east, my little grandson Henry would say, Ta-da all the time when he finished something. Then, when watching Sesame Street with him, it dawned on me that’s where he picked it up. Thanks, Elmo and Henry. Now you have me saying it.
I was back there helping my daughter, who had just given birth to a baby girl. You can see photos on my Instagram of behind-the-scenes moments…
If they were here they would love this finger licking chicken dinner.
We served this chicken dinner with Mexican riceand a salad.
You can serve it with any sides you like. Potatoes, tortillas, avocados, corn, and other vegetables. Who says dinner has to be complicated?
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Instant Pot Whole Chicken. These four words will make your day and solve your dinner woes. Are you looking for a flavorful, tender whole chicken recipe that is easy? You have to try cooking a chicken in an Instant Pot. Why? 1. It is such an easy recipe. 2. The chicken meat turns out so tender and moist. Grab the Instant Pot Whole Chicken Recipe and get cooking!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time26 minutes
Additional Time20 minutes
Total Time1 hour1 minute
Ingredients
1 Whole Chicken (about 5.5 lb. or your desired size)
2 white onions peel and quarter
3 cloves garlic peeled
2 limes quartered
1 poblano pepper chopped roughly
1 cup chicken broth
nonstick spray like Pam
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
2 tsp. Paprika or more
1/2 tsp. Cumin
Instructions
Pre-spray your instant pot with nonstick spray.
Clean out your whole chicken, discard any packaged items.
Then wash your hands with soap and water. Set your chicken to the side.
Cut your onion in quarters
Cut your limes in quarters
Seed (scrape seeds out with a knife) and Chop your poblano pepper ( Use care and wash hands immediately after handling peppers.)
Peel your garlic cloves
Stuff your chicken with onion, garlic, and lime
Spice rub your chicken (wash hands with soap and water)
Place the instant pot rack onto the bottom of the pot
Add some onion, garlic to the bottom of the pot
Then place stuffed chicken to pot breast side up
Add chicken broth
Set cook time to PRESSURE COOK, and move pressure valve to SEALING position (proper setting)
Cook for 20-26 minutes depending on the size of your chicken. (6 minutes per pound*ref) The internal temperature in the thigh should be at least 165°F using an instant-read thermometer. If not done fully cook a few minutes longer.
When done you will need to let the pot release pressure!
Leave the valve in the SEALING position and let it release naturally. (If in a hurry wait at least 10 minutes (follow your instant pot manual), then carefully push the SEALING valve to VENTING- DO NOT do this before the 10-minute countdown after the cooker is done cooking. )
Notes
The size of the chicken will determine the overall cook time. A smaller chicken will be less time. A larger chicken will be more time.
Start with these spices to make your rub- 1/2 tsp. Salt, 1 tsp. Pepper, 2 tsp. or more of Paprika, 1/2 tsp. Cumin (If you like spicier chicken you can add a little cayenne powder) Adjust as needed or desired.
yet, you can try any of these easy chicken recipes. 
which you can get online or in your local grocery store. 
, as there needs to be space at the top where liquids don’t go over.
and a salad. 
