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Nothing makes meal prep easier than having shredded chicken on hand to use in your favorite recipes! Making an Instant Pot Whole Chicken is about the quickest and easiest way to meal prep this week!

If you’d like to try out meal prepping but don’t know where to start, having shredded chicken on hand is a great way to help you with quick and easy meals later in the week.  Sure, you can buy a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, but it’s a lot of work for usually not a lot of meat.  Making your own couldn’t be much simpler than this Instant Pot Whole Chicken and you’ll have lots of delicious, juicy meat to use in dishes all week.

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What you need to make an Instant Pot whole chicken:

• 4ish pound whole chicken
• favorite seasoning blend
• water or broth
• pressure cooker with trivet

This is truly a quick and easy weekend project.  I like to keep the seasoning mild so that I can use the chicken in pretty much anything.  You could even just use a little salt and pepper.  If you’re new to meal prep or new to using an electric pressure cooker, this is a great place to start.  Or, if you are a pro meal prepper, this might be a new way to get your chicken done without having to fire up the grill or oven.

Ideas for using cooked shredded chicken:

Instant Pot Whole Chicken

Nothing makes meal prep easier than having shredded chicken on hand to use in your favorite recipes! Making an Instant Pot Whole Chicken is about the quickest and easiest way to meal prep this week!

Servings: 8

Calories: 234 kcal

Author: Slow Cooker Gourmet

Instructions

1. Rub seasoning on chicken (and under skin if desired)

2. Add 1 cup of water to Instant Pot

3. Add trivet and place seasoned chicken on top

4. Set to high pressure for 25 mins

5. Allow for natural pressure release and then check to ensure chicken fully cooked to proper temperature (165 degrees F)

6. Remove and allow chicken to cool before shredding

Recipe Notes

Notes about pressure cooking times:

• It will take around 15 minutes for the pot to come to pressure
• It will take around 15-20 minutes for a full natural pressure release 
• Adding that to cooking time, plan for around 1 hour plus time for the chicken to cool and shred it.  

Nutrition Facts

Instant Pot Whole Chicken

Amount Per Serving

Calories 234 Calories from Fat 144

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 16g 25%

Saturated Fat 4g 20%

Cholesterol 81mg 27%

Sodium 76mg 3%

Potassium 205mg 6%

Protein 20g 40%

Vitamin A 3%

Vitamin C 2.1%

Calcium 1.2%

Iron 5.4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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