Pressure Cooker Whole Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Rinse chicken & pat dry. Season with salt & pepper.
• Heat oil in uncovered pressure cooker; brown chicken on all sides in hot oil. Remove chicken.
• Place rack in pressure cooker and place browned chicken in rack. Add water/broth around chicken.
• Place lid on cooker, seal, and bring up to pressure.
• Cook for 25 minutes.
• Release pressure by quick release method.
• Remove chicken to platter, pour accumulated juice into bowl & serve with chicken.

Steps:

• Pour 2 teaspoons olive oil into the pressure cooker to coat the bottom.
• Arrange onion rings, carrot slices, and lemon slices in the bottom of the pressure cooker. Pour vegetable stock over onion mixture.
• Season the entire chicken with salt and pepper by using your hands to pat the salt and pepper into the skin. Place garlic head and thyme sprigs into the cavity of the chicken.
• Mix Marsala wine, brown mustard, minced garlic, chopped fresh thyme, celery seed, and dried parsley together in a bowl. Slowly stream 1/4 cup olive oil into wine mixture while continuing to whisk wine mixture until rub is emulsified. Spread about 3/4 of the rub over the entire chicken using your hands. Place chicken in the pressure cooker. Pour remaining rub over the chicken.
• Place lid on the pressure cooker, seal, and cook chicken under high pressure, 16 to 20 minutes. Release pressure according to manufacturer's instructions for quick-release. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
• Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
• Place chicken in a roasting pan. Ladle about 1/2 of the liquid from the pressure cooker over the chicken.
• Broil chicken in the preheated oven until skin becomes golden brown, about 5 minutes. Remove garlic head from the cavity of the chicken. Squeeze the garlic cloves out the skins into a bowl and mash.
• Skim excess fat from the liquid in the pressure cooker and remove onion, carrot, and lemon and discard. Place pressure cooker over medium heat; cook and stir the liquid until browned, 2 to 4 minutes. Whisk mashed garlic into the browned sauce; season with salt and pepper. Serve sauce alongside chicken.

Steps:

• Truss chicken and brown on all sides in oil in separate pan on top of stove.
• Put chicken in cooker, breast side down.
• Saute carrots and onions in pan on top of stove.
• Deglaze pan with 1 can chicken broth and add entire contents of saute pan to the cooker.
• Cut tomatoes into smaller pieces if desired.
• Add tomatoes with juice to cooker.
• Add worcestershire and season with salt, pepper and rosemary or thyme to taste.
• Top up with water.
• Do not exceed the "max PC" line when filling cooker.
• Put cover on cooker and set to "seal."
• Select meat function and set timer on cooker to 25 minutes.
• After 25 minutes, unplug cooker and let the pressure drop.
• Open cooker when pressure has dropped.
• Remove chicken from cooker and remove all meat and skin from the bones.
• Discard bones and skin.
• Shred the meat.
• Put glass cover on cooker and plug inches It should go into the "heat" mode.
• Select "meat" mode and set timer on cooker to 20 minutes.
• Bring broth and vegetables to a boil. Add pasta and 1 can chicken broth. Cook uncovered until pasta is tender.
• Turn off heat and let cooker cool for 5 minutes.
• Add chicken.
• Stir and serve with crusty bread.
• Ladle into serving bowls and sprinkle with parmesan or romano cheese, if desired.

Steps:

• Rinse and dry the chicken inside and out and pat dry. If there are giblets, or the neck, you can use them to flavor the braise, so rinse them off too, and set them aside.
• Prepare the seasoning by mixing the herbs, olive oil, lemon salt and pepper. Tuck the tips of the wings behind the neck opening of the chicken and brush on the seasoning.
• In a separate pan (or your pressure cooker) brown the seasoned chicken well on all sides- about 10 minutes. This is the only step that will add color to the bird, so don't be shy with the browning!
• Prepare (or de-glaze) the pressure cooker by pouring 1/3 of the beer out of the can and putting half of the lemon zest and one bay leaf into the can, then the other bay leaf and the rest of the lemon zest in the pan, with the can in the middle of the pan.
• Then, lower the chicken into the pressure cooker, sitting it over the can of beer. Before closing the pressure cooker, pour on any of the remaining seasoning, and liquid from the sauté pan over the chicken. If you have any giblets or other parts of the chicken, put those at the bottom of the pan in the braising liquid.
• Close and lock the lid, turn the heat to high. From the time the pan reaches pressure lower the heat and count 20-25 minutes cooking time at HIGH pressure. When the cooking time is up, open the pressure cooker using the Normal method - release the pressure by pushing, twisting or opening a valve.
• Carefully remove the chicken pulling from the neck cavity, and not the wings - it will be so tender the wings may come right off in your hands. Place the chicken on the serving platter to rest tented with aluminum foil. Turn the heat up to high and reduce the contents of the pressure cooker without the lid for about 5 minutes.
• Strain, if you had giblets in there, and pour over the chicken and sprinkle with some fresh rosemary before serving.