I just love when I’ve planned ahead for the week and have all the dinners in mind I want to make.
Often that doesn’t happen, but lets pretend it happens every week.
Okay?
This is my new TIME SAVER.
Cook the chicken you need all at once.
Sounds simple enough, right. But what if you haven’t planned out your weeks meals and just want to imcorperate chicken in to most of your meals, great! That is where my TIME SAVER tip really comes in handy.
I cooked 6 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts in my pressure cooker in 22 minutes. Yes you heard me right, they were all finished cooking and ready to be added to the many many options of meals I was about to make this week.
This idea is great for the weeks when you it will be CRAZY at dinnertime.
I just LOVE my pressure cooker for chicken, it comes out perfectly cooked, not dry, doesn’t taste boiled, and saves me lots of time and effort when I need to get meals on the table fast, or for a quick lunch, perfect to add to a salad, or pasta salad…like this
Cilantro Lime and Jalapeno Couscous Salad
I have a 6 quart Presto Pressure Cooker here is a link to the one I have on Amazon.
I place 6 pounds of boneless skinless chicken into my pressure cooker with 4 cups water. The water is just coming over the cooling rack in the pressure cooker, that way the chicken isn’t sitting in the water and I have plenty of chicken stock when I’m done.
It takes 10 minutes for it to come to the proper pressure and I cook it for 12 minutes with the pressure regulator rocking high.
I then place all the chicken into my KitchenAid mixer and turn it on high for about 30 seconds and it is then all shredded. No standing there with two forks shredding it until my hands hurt anymore.
Now want some meal ideas for all this chicken,
Shredded chicken would go in any of these meals nicely….
Shrimp Fra Diavolo ( just substitute chicken for the shrimp)
Past with Chicken in Lemon Wine Sauce
Chicken with Cilantro Lime Sauce
Another favorite of mine is Lo Mein, just substitute chicken for the pork.
To make it easy I package 2 cups of shredded chicken into quart sized plastic bags. They can be frozen or kept in the refrigerator until your ready to use it.
Don’t forget you will also have 4 cups of chicken broth, you can use it to add to sauces…
soup…
Stew and even…chili….
or even a
the options are endless and I will have a few new recipe with shredded chicken to share with you soon!
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Smart! Thanks for the pressure cooker advice!
Ohhh Diane….What a great idea. I love that you use your mixer to shred the chicken. Brilliant!
I sooo need to get a pressure cooker
So I don’t have a pressure cooker (although it I love the quick cooking idea) but shredding the chicken with the mixer? Mind. Blown. I’m putting that one with “why didn’t I think of that”.
Shut UP!!!!!! I just bought 6lbs of chicken an hour ago! I NEED a pressure cooker and LOVE the idea of using the KitchenAid! Hello!!! Genius!
Whoa! Look at all of these great tips!
Ok… i thought that broth was actually a margarita. For a moment. Gross
Great post! I will be using the KA trick to shred the chicken next time I cook up a batch. Having the chicken done ahead makes such a difference in meal prep and it is so moist in the pressure cooker.
I will be adding chicken lettuce wraps to the list of meals.
Wow — what a dream it was to shred the chicken from my new pressure cooker with my Kitchen Aid. Thanks for a life changing post
My son said the shredded chicken would be great on a chicken Caesar because you’d get chicken in every bite instead of just a few. Tonight it’s chicken tacos and chicken enchilada soup.
so glad you liked the tips, the possibilities are just endless with this chicken.
I need to start cooking ahead like this!
I have lots of kitchen appliances, but one that I don’t have is a pressure cooker, although I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I’d love to get one – thanks for sharing how you use it make chicken!
Okay, I never would have thought to use my kitcheaid to shred my chicken. Brilliant!
Wow, that’s so awesome, using the pressure cooker and the KitchenAid stand mixer to shred the chicken!! Thanks for these amazing tips!
This is an awesome idea. Which mixer paddle are you using to shred the chicken?
I use the flat paddle to shred beef or chicken.The one in the photograph, I have two one white and one silver. The mixer comes with the white version.
Well I see that now. I didn’t scroll to the top and was looking at the action shot. Thanks for the reply. Can’t wait to give this a try.
Hi Diane-I have the same pressure cooker that you do and love it. Thanks so much for sharing the great idea and the fantastic sounding recipes to give that chicken a home.
I’m using my pressure cooker more and more these days-it sure is a time saver.
Glad you liked the post Carol, yes I find it is a HUGE time saver too
I love chicken in Green Chile Sauce and just posted a quick pizza version http://www.createdby-diane.com/2012/11/green-chile-chicken-pizza.html
I just started doing this for a week’s worth of meals by cooking it over the weekend. How long would you say I can keep the shredded chicken in the fridge before I would need to start freezing it? TIA!
The cooked chicken will lasts about a week. If I know I’m not going to use all of it in a week, I freeze it as soon as I realize this.
When you say ” The water is just coming over the cooling rack in the pressure cooker, that way the chicken isn’t sitting in the water and I have plenty of chicken stock when I’m done.” do you mean you sit the chicken on the little grill rack looking thing that came with the pressure cooker for steaming? I have the newwave 5 in 1 pressure cooker.
yes, I placed the chicken on the rack.