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    Home » Instant Pot

    Instant Pot Chicken with Paprika and Butternut Squash

    Published: Sep 9, 2019 · Modified: Jan 11, 2024 by Maria Bravo · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

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    I love pushing the limits of the Instant Pot and I love Instant Pot chicken recipes. This Instant Pot Chicken with Paprika and Butternut Squash recipe starts with a well looked-after Instant Pot.

    Photo of the chicken and butternut squash served in a bowl, seen close up
    Jump to:
    • How can the pressure cooker reach pressure with so little added liquid?
    • What does deglazing mean?
    • Why pressure cook chicken thigh fillets
    • Want to make this dish with Chicken Breasts instead?
    • Hate peeling and dicing Butternut Squash?
    • Easy-to-find ingredients
    • 📖 Recipe

    How can the pressure cooker reach pressure with so little added liquid?

    Chicken releases a lot of liquid so, as long as your Instant Pot is in tip-top shape (make sure you read what I mention in the previous paragraph!), you can get away without adding extra liquid other than the Worcestershire Sauce.

    Go on, give it a try.

    What does deglazing mean?

    Don't forget to deglaze well if you sauté and don't forget that a loved Instant Pot loves you back!

    Deglazing basically means removing any caramelised or burnt-on food by adding a bit of liquid and scraping with a wooden spoon.

    Instant Pot Chicken with Paprika and Butternut Squash ready to pressure cook

    Why pressure cook chicken thigh fillets

    Pressure cooked boneless chicken thigh fillets take very little time to be super tender and delicious.

    In general, Instant Pot chicken recipes with chicken thigh fillets require very little cooking time and do great on Keep Warm.

    Other recipes with Chicken Thigh Fillets

    • Baharat chicken
    • Chicken and Chorizo Stew
    • Chicken Stew with Dumplings
    • Pressure Cooker Chicken and Chorizo Orzo / Risoni Pasta
    • Instant Pot Creamy Chicken and Pancetta Rigatoni Pasta

    You might also like my collection of Pressure Cooked Stew recipes.

    Want to make this dish with Chicken Breasts instead?

    Pressure cook for 3 minutes instead if diced, 5 minutes if whole, and 8 minutes if whole and very big.

    Hate peeling and dicing Butternut Squash?

    Me too! If you have a whole butternut squash, you could use this clever trick before starting, it will making peeling a doddle.

    Easy-to-find ingredients

    This recipe for Instant Pot Chicken with Butternut Squash uses ingredients easily found in UK supermarkets with UK measurements.

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    Photo of the chicken and butternut squash served in a bowl, seen close up from above

    Instant Pot Chicken with Paprika and Butternut Squash

    Such an easy and quick dish that will see you mainly put your feet up!
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Total Time 35 minutes mins
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine British
    Servings 4 people

    Equipment

    • 1 Pressure Cooker

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or oil of your choice
    • 500 g chicken thigh fillets each cut into about 3 pieces (or you can leave them whole if you prefer)
    • 1 onion sliced
    • 3 garlic cloves chopped
    • 2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
    • 500 g butternut squash peeled and diced
    • 2 tablespoon paprika sweet (if you would like a spicy kick you could use 1 tablespoon sweet paprika + 1 tablespoon smoked paprika)
    • 1.5 tablespoon dried parsley

    To serve (optional)

    • Tabasco

    Instructions
     

    • Sauté the chicken in the oil until sealed, use a medium heat for this.
      1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, 500 g chicken thigh fillets
    • Add the onions, garlic and Worcestershire sauce and stir, scraping the bottom with a wooden spoon to deglaze as you do this (you can add a bit of liquid to help with this)
      1 onion, 3 garlic cloves, 2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
    • Add the butternut squash, paprika and parsley. Stir to make sure everything is well coated. Deglaze if necessary.
      500 g butternut squash, 2 tablespoon paprika, 1.5 tablespoon dried parsley
    • Press down on the sealing ring following its circumference several times to make sure it's properly inserted in the rack that holds it. Lock the lid in. Steam release Sealed.
    • Pressure cook, high pressure, for 5 minutes and do a natural release* at the end of cooking, which means doing nothing until the float valve pops back down.
    • Serve and enjoy with a sprinkle of Tabasco for an extra kick.
      Tabasco

    Notes

    Hate peeling Butternut Squash? Me too! If you have a whole butternut squash, you could use this clever trick before starting, it will making peeling a doddle.
    Notes
    Deglazing means scraping the bottom with a wooden spoon and the help of some liquid to remove any caramelised bits
    Short of time? Add all the ingredients except the Tabasco to the inner pot, stir to combine and had straight for step 4.
    Want to double it up? Feel free. The timings remain the same.
    *Terminology
    Quick release (also called quick pressure release or QPR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
    Natural release (also called natural pressure release or NPR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid.
    Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example, a recipe may say 4 minute NPR followed by QPR. That means that you wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.
    Keyword all-in-one, butternut squash, chicken, Instant Pot, stew
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    About Maria Bravo

    Kitchen Gadget Geek extraordinaire. Tester of all things kitchen appliance. Clumsy cook, if I can't break it and get the most of it, you know that's a good kitchen gadget! Architect of online communities for kitchen gadget lovers

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    Comments

    1. Marc says

      March 31, 2020 at 7:55 pm

      5 stars
      Delicious, thanks. Would this work the same with frozen thighs?

      Reply
    2. Adlai Neubauer says

      October 22, 2021 at 8:14 pm

      5 stars
      I had to change this recipe up a bit to avoid having to go to the grocery store to buy missing ingredients. I didn't have a sweet paprika, so I used half smoked paprika and 1/2 cumin. I also didn't have any onions on hand, so I left them out. I used chicken drumsticks vs. thigh filets and increased cooking time in the Instant Pot to 10 minutes. I pre-cooked the butternut squash. The resulting recipe turned out delicious!

      Reply
    3. Diane says

      October 28, 2023 at 12:58 pm

      5 stars
      Simply outstanding. We love it and will put it in the rotation!

      Reply
      • Maria Bravo says

        October 31, 2023 at 5:50 pm

        Aw, thank you so much Diane, you've made my day! Maria

        Reply

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