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Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken

18 · Aug 5, 2016 · 1 Comment

Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken Recipe - Delicious, succulent cooked chicken inside Instant Pot after natural pressure release - A Feisty Tapas recipe. Let me know if you try it!

There’s been a lot of talk about how to cook a whole chicken lately in the Instant Pot® UK Community, a lot of brainstorming over whether the chicken should be breast down so that it’s more moist. So I wanted to give it a go. I also didn’t brown my chicken on Sauté this time (you can do this with some oil by pressing Sauté and then the Adjust button to set the Instant Pot to More).

The very succulent meat was used for several meals. First served with mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables. Then used in stir fries and even in sandwiches! You can pressure cook a lovely bone broth / chicken stock with the carcass once you’ve taken all the meat off or you could freeze it until you have more bones to add (and then pressure cook bone broth from frozen). Chicken goes a long way in the Tapas household and I bet it does in yours too!

Also, the liquid that is left is especially good to freeze in cubes and use to flavour stews, casseroles, even all-in-one pasta dishes.

Ready for the recipe?



Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken


Ingredients

– 1 whole chicken (you can fit up to a 2.5 kg bird in the Instant Pot, that was the weight of mine this time)

– 1 lime

– 1 lemon

– 1 large onions or two medium ones, very thickly sliced (approx. 2 cm thick)

– 1 carrot, sliced lengthways

– 5 garlic cloves, not peeled but whacked with the hand

– 1 teaspoon turmeric

– 1 tablespoon mixed herbs (I make my own mix of equal parts of rosemary, marjoram, parsley and oregano)

– 250 ml vegetable stock (I make my own stock in the Instant Pot or the Thermomix, find the recipe here). You can add it cold but I added it hot, it means that the pot will reach pressure faster

– Salt, a good pinch

– Black pepper, a few twists of the pepper mill

Method

1. Zest the lemon and the lime. Reserve.

2. Juice the lemon and the lime. Reserve.

3. With a sharp knife, stab what you have left of the lemon and the lime, through the skin. Insert the lemon and lime inside the chicken cavity.

Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken by Feisty Tapas - Lemons ready to be inserted

4. Place the onion and the carrot in the pot to create a bed for the chicken.

Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken by Feisty Tapas - Vegetable layer

5. Add the garlic cloves, the teaspoon of turmeric, the tablespoon of mixed
herbs, the 250 ml of stock (hot), the salt and the black pepper.

Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken by Feisty Tapas - Vegetable, spice, herb layer with stock and other ingredients

6. Place the chicken on top, breast side down. Pour the reserved lemon zest and juice on the bird. Add a pinch of salt and some freshly ground black pepper. Press Manual, leave at 30 minutes for a bigger bird, you can do 25 minutes for a smaller bird. Natural release. In a conventional stove-top pressure cooker bring the pressure cooker to high pressure and cook for about 25-30 minutes (the psi is higher), turn off the heat and do a natural release.

Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Lemony Whole Chicken by Feisty Tapas - chicken in place ready to pressure cook
Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken by Feisty Tapas
Note: There are a lot of lovely juices at the end, I blended some of it with the vegetables for a lovely smooth thick sauce but also kept some of the juices for a thinner sauce. Probably used half for each thing. Lovely moist chicken.
 

Enjoy! And don’t forget to let me know how you get on!

Instant Pot Lemony Whole Chicken - Feisty Tapas - plenty of meat for leftovers

If you haven’t got an Instant Pot yet, it’s only the most amazing bit of kitchen equipment! It can pressure cook, slow cook, keeps your food warm at the end, steams and the DUO even makes yoghurt! The list of what it can do is very long and it includes cheesecake! And, as Instant Pot UK‘s social media girl, I’m here (and there) to help you make the most of it.

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  1. sara Dudley says

    October 28, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    Ohhhhhhh my days this was amazing! Recently started using my pot having had it in a cupboard for a year and I’m just delighted!! Mouth watering succulent chicken and amazingly tasty juices. I used lamb stock and left out the turmeric, whizzed all the vege into the juices with a hand blender and then added a nice dash of cream. Shredded the chicken and added left over buttered cabbage and leek (cooked in the pot yesterday) and some left over steamed broccoli. Brought it all to my mother in law’s for us to have for lunch and it was wonderfully warming on a chilly day. I’ll definitely make this again and am super excited about all the potting possibilities! 😀

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