Our Ninja Foodi Make Ahead Chicken is a great way to pressure cook, shred and store chicken for future meals. You can also make a delicious broth base and Air Fryer Chicken Cracklins from the leftovers!
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How to Make Electric Pressure Cooker Shredded Chicken in a Ninja Foodi
Cris here. I love to make ahead chicken for easy sandwiches, salads, soups and casseroles. Most of the time I make our Crock Pot Butter Chicken or our Electric Pressure Cooker Chicken. Both of those recipes use boneless skinless chicken (we prefer thighs).
However, lately it has been difficult to always find boneless skinless chicken. So I decided to try this recipe with bone-in chicken and do a little something special with the leftover skin… make delicious crispy Chicken Cracklins using the air crisp basket in my Ninja Foodi! I also kept the delicious leftover broth as a broth base to use in soups and pasta dishes. This is the recipe that just keeps giving!
Ninja Foodi Make Ahead Chicken Notes
- If you are looking for a recipe that uses boneless skinless chicken, check out our Electric Pressure Cooker Chicken or our Crock Pot Butter Chicken.
- In this recipe, we use bone-in thighs because we enjoy dark meat. You can try this recipe with other cuts of chicken, you may just need to adjust cooking times.
- We cook this chicken under high pressure for 30 minutes because we want fall off the bone chicken that is super easy to shred. If you want your chicken to be less tender, reduce cooking times to 25 minutes.
General Notes
- We’ve tested this recipe in a 6 quart Instant Pot and 6.5 quart Ninja Foodi. When pressure cooking with larger pressure cookers, you may need to add 1/2 cup to 1 cup more liquid to reach pressure. Make sure not to overfill smaller pressure cookers past their max lines.
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- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- Finally, all electric pressure cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own electric pressure cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Ninja Foodi Make Ahead Chicken (Electric Pressure Cooker Chicken -Low Carb)
Ingredients
- 5 lbs Bone-in Chicken Thighs Frozen
- 1 stick Butter
- 1 cup Chicken Broth
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- Garlic Powder to taste
Instructions
- Place chicken in 6 or 6.5 quart Electric Pressure Cooker and add remaining ingredients.
- Set lid to seal and cook under high pressure for 30 minutes.
- Quick release pressure and carefully move chicken pieces into a bowl to remove skin (reserve for crackins if desired.) and chicken bone (discard). Shred meat.
- Store in an air tight container with a little broth spooned over the top to use in sandwiches, salads, casseroles and soups.
- Reserve remaining broth as a broth base for soups if desired.
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Notes
- If you are looking for a recipe that uses boneless skinless chicken, check out our Electric Pressure Cooker Chicken or our Crock Pot Butter Chicken.
- In this recipe, we use bone-in thighs because we enjoy dark meat. You can try this recipe with other cuts of chicken, you may just need to adjust cooking times.
- We cook this chicken under high pressure for 30 minutes because we want fall off the bone chicken that is super easy to shred. If you want your chicken to be less tender, reduce cooking times to 25 minutes.
- We’ve tested this recipe in a 6 quart Instant Pot and 6.5 quart Ninja Foodi. When pressure cooking with larger pressure cookers, you may need to add 1/2 cup to 1 cup more liquid to reach pressure. Make sure not to overfill smaller pressure cookers past their max lines.
- Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in our Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- Finally, all electric pressure cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own electric pressure cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
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Making the Most of Your Leftovers
One of the reasons we LOVE this recipe is that you can make multiple things from the parts of the chicken you would normally throw away.
Using Your Make Ahead Chicken Broth Base
You can use the leftover broth from this recipe as a base for soups, recipe ingredient or to boil pasta. This base is a flavorful buttery broth that adds extra flavor.
- Strain this broth using a colander, if desired.
- Add additional regular broth to this buttery broth to make as much as you need for your recipe.
Air Fryer Chicken Cracklin Recipe
Check out our Ninja Foodi Air Fryer Chicken Crackin Recipe to make with your reserved chicken skin from this recipe! Yum!
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