I'm a little slow with new kitchen devices, ok very slow. But my brother in law brought me up to speed a bit with my birthday gift this year. He got me an Instant Pot.
I've looked at these and talked to some friends about them, but wasn't convinced so I never made the purchase. Well I don't know what I was waiting for, this thing is awesome.
I decided to test it with a chicken, I needed some shredded chicken for chicken salad for lunch this week. I put a chicken on the trivet, rubbed it with some butter, sprinkled salt and pepper, and added a quartered onion. Put 1 1/2 cups of water in the bottom and cooked it for 30 minutes with the poultry setting. I did a quick steam release let it cool about 10 minutes and then pulled it out of the pot and shredded it. It was perfect! Juicy, fall off the bone tender, and I pulled off the skin and fried it for chips.
Once I removed all the meat, I threw the carcass back into the pot with the cooking liquid, added 1 lb. of bone in chicken thighs, some celery, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper and filled the pot up to the 2/3 mark and processed on high for 2 hours. It made the best chicken bone broth and so quick! And because I was gifted the 8 quart pot, it made a ton of broth for my freezer. Well, now I'm hooked.
I'll be experimenting with the Instant Pot a lot for a while. I have plans for chocolate cake, ribs (how nice in the summer not to start the oven for my barbeque ribs), onion jam, and what ever else I can come up with from Pinterest!
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