Pressure cooker Pulled Chicken sliders BBQ style. Made in the Instant pot. Chicken thighs, pop, bbq sauce. Even works with frozen chicken!
Prep Time: 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 15 minutesminutes
Total Time: 25 minutesminutes
Servings: 8
Ingredients
12chicken thighs, boneless and skinless
2onions, peeled and diced
1green pepper, cored and diced
1canpop(root beer, cola, ginger ale, etc.)
1/3cupwhite sugar
1tbspchili powder
1tspgarlic powder
1tspsalt
1/2tspblack pepper
2cupsBBQ sauce
8buns
Instructions
Place chicken thighs, diced onion and green pepper into the pressure cooker pot.
In a bowl, whisk together the pop, sugar, chili powder, garlic powder, salt and black pepper until sugar is dissolved. Pour mixture all over the chicken thighs in the pot.
Close the pressure cooker lid and make sure that the vent valve is set to closed/sealed.
Set the pressure cooker to cook on high pressure for 15 minutes.
Once the pressure cooker has finished cooking and beeped, manually release the pressure by turning the valve to vent. Once the air pressure is released, remove the lid.
With oven mitts, lift the pot out of the pressure cooker. Using a strainer, drain the majority of the broth. It is ok if somewhere from 1/2 -1 cup of broth stays in the pot with the chicken. Place the pot back into the pressure cooker.
Using tongs or a fork, stir the chicken around, shredding it up into strands. The chicken should be fully cooked and will shred very easily.
Squeeze bottle of your favourite BBQ sauce into the pot and stir the chicken so that the sauce coats all the meat.
Serve on buns with extra BBQ sauce, if desired.
Notes
It is possible to cook the chicken thighs while they are frozen. Just follow the recipe directions and add an extra 5 minutes to the pressure cooking time.