Instant Pot BBQ Chicken - Weeknight dinner has never been easier. This recipe for BBQ chicken uses frozen chicken breasts. No defrosting! Add in your favorite BBQ sauce at the end.
I don’t know why I haven’t made chicken in my Instant Pot sooner! If your Instant Pot intimidates you, try making this recipe first. It is super easy and you will be amazed at how fast it cooks frozen chicken! The only hard part about learning the Instant Pot to me was closing the lid properly. I still struggle with that sometimes but there are two handles on each side of the pot and on your lid. Just make sure those are properly aligned and that usually helps me with making sure the lid is properly closed.
This Instant Pot BBQ Chicken is zero points depending on what type of BBQ sauce you use. I like to use G Hughes sugar-free BBQ sauce or Stubbs to keep the chicken 0 and then I will serve it with a light bun to make chicken sandwiches. This is not sponsored, by the way, I just really like those 2 BBQ sauces. Oddly enough that sauce doesn’t bother me. Most sugar-free stuff does. I just like to test it first to see if it agrees with my digestive system.
If you love Instant Pot Recipes check out Instant Pot Mongolian Chicken, Instant Pot Sunday Pot Roast, Easy Instant Pot Pulled Pork, Instant Pot French Onion Soup.
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Ingredients Needed for Instant Pot Chicken Breast
How to make Instant Pot BBQ Chicken
Step 1: Place your frozen chicken breasts or thawed chicken breasts in the bottom of your Instant Pot with a cup of water.
Step 2: Place the lid on your Instant Pot and set it to sealing. Press manual (high pressure) and set to 20 minutes. Let the pressure naturally release for 10 minutes. Drain the extra water at the bottom of the pot.
Step 3: Shred the chicken and add the BBQ sauce. Enjoy on sandwiches, salads, quesadillas, BBQ plates and more!
Tips for Instant Pot BBQ Chicken
You can use a hand-held mixer to shred the chicken. Place the chicken into a deep mixing bowl and press the beaters into it. Turn the hand mixer on low speed, and let it do its thing until the chicken is fully shredded.
Shred the chicken with a fork. On a plate or in a bowl, pierce a piece of boneless chicken with two forks. Both forks should have their prongs facing in a downward curve. Press the prongs of one fork into the center of the chicken and apply firm downward pressure. With another fork, pierce the chicken near the place where the prongs of the first fork penetrated. Then, pull the second fork away from the first in a straight line.
Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken: If you are using your slow cooker for making BBQ Chicken place the chicken on the bottom and add 1 cup of water. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hrs or 4 hours on high. Drain the liquid, and shred the chicken. See how easy it is to use both cooking devices to make cooking a breeze?
What to serve with your BBQ chicken?
If you're looking for some tasty side dishes you've come to the right place.
Paula Deen's Crock Pot Mac and Cheese and Slow Cooker Calico beans are some great side dishes to make in a crock pot.
Make a loaded air fryer baked potato with all the fixings in your air fryer or a twice baked potato.
Some fun fruit salads to serve with this apple wood smoked turkey breast would be Fruit Cocktail Salad or Red, White, and Blue Berry Cheesecake Salad.
Recipe FAQS
If you make a big batch, you can freeze it in a sealable container and thaw it out in batches as needed. By making a large batch of shredded chicken at once, you will save time and effort breaking out and setting up your mixer every time you want a meal with shredded chicken.
I have the Instant Pot Duo 6 QT Electric Pressure Cooker. You can find it on Amazon. I'm not sponsored by them, it just a kitchen appliance I really like to use. Gotta love those multi-cookers! The Instant Pot Duo multi-cooker combines 7 appliances in one: pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, sauté pan, yogurt maker and warmer – and cooks up to 70% faster!
Don’t be intimidated by your pressure because you’re afraid the lid will pop off or explode! Pressure cookers have built-in features that are for safety reasons. Some of the most common errors made are when the user forgets to turn the venting knob to sealing mode, overfills the pot, or uses the timer button to set the cooking time.
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Instant Pot BBQ Chicken
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 20
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: American
Description
Instant Pot BBQ Chicken - Weeknight dinner has never been easier. This recipe for BBQ chicken uses frozen chicken breasts. No defrosting! Add in your favorite BBQ sauce at the end.
Ingredients
- 4 small to medium sized frozen chicken breasts
- 1 cup of BBQ sauce such as G Hughes
Instructions
- Place your frozen chicken breasts in the bottom of your slow cooker with a cup of water.
- Place the lid on your Instant Pot and set it to sealing.
- Press manual (high pressure) and set to 20 minutes. Let the pressure naturally release for 10 minutes. Drain the extra water at the bottom of the pot. Shred the chicken and add the BBQ sauce. Enjoy on sandwiches, salads, quesadillas, BBQ plates and more!
Notes
myWW points Blue 0; Green 2; Purple 0
Points are calculated with the WW recipe builder app and not using the nutrition info.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 113
- Sugar: 0
- Sodium: 235mg
- Fat: 2.7g
- Saturated Fat: .8g
- Carbohydrates: 1.9g
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 18.5g
Megan says
How much would you say a serving would be? Thanks!