How to Make Instant Pot Beer Can Chicken (Full Recipe & Tutorial) (2024)

FAQs

What is the best liquid to use for beer can chicken? ›

Also, beer isn't your only option! You can use your favorite soft drink, such as cola or root beer if you prefer. You can get even more creative with an empty, clean aluminum can. Fill it halfway with chicken stock, wine, or any mix of liquid and herbs and spices.

Add trivet into instant pot, add 1 cup water, add whole chicken or 1-2 chicken legs (in one layer), 2-4 chicken thighs (in one layer), 2-6 chicken drumsticks (in one layer), 1-4 chicken breasts (in one layer), 2-12 chicken wings in one layer.

Can you overcook chicken breast in an Instant Pot? Yes, you can! Pressure Cookers don't work the same as slow cookers, where longer cooking times equal more juicy and tender meat. Too much time in a pressure cooker will create dry tough meat.

What Beer is Best for Beer Can Chicken? I always say that for any recipe that has alcohol as an ingredient, use something you like to drink. Beer can chicken is no exception. The most popular choice is lager — something middle of the road, and not too hoppy or bitter.

Southern France is known for chicken cooked in red wine, but in northern France, chicken is often cooked in dark beer with onions to get a rich, caramelized flavor. Non-alcoholic version: Use a dark non-alcoholic beer or 1 cup of chicken broth in place of the dark beer.

This time around I took a cue from Steven Raichlen and tried it out with cola, Dr Pepper (my favorite cola) to be exact, which resulted in a subtly sweet and spicy bird that easily held its own against those made with beer.

Once you're getting 4 “jiggles” per minute, or your dial gauge has come up to pressure, start your timer and process the chicken. If you're canning pint jars, you will process them for 1 hour 15 minutes (75 minutes). If you're using quart jars, you will process for 1 hour 30 minutes (90 minutes).

Add two cups of water to your pressure cooker or slow cooker, then add the chicken pieces (they do not need to be fully submerged). Secure the lid, set the pressure cooker to high pressure. Once it reaches full pressure, cook for 30 minutes. Allow the pressure to release naturally.

Canning chicken is super simple and frees up a lot of freezer space. So today I'm going to teach you how to can whole, bone in pieces of chicken like legs and thighs, as well as whole breasts, and breast meat cut into chunks. HELPFUL TIP: If you want to can already cooked chicken or turkey, you can do that too!

While all cuts of chicken are fair game for the Instant Pot, thighs are the most forgiving. Because chicken breast is so lean, just a couple of extra minutes of cook time turns them from juicy to overcooked and dry.

Does chicken get more tender the longer you cook it? ›

But since undercooking it is an even worse fate, many of us overcompensate and pay the price. There's an exception to this cooking rule: dark meat. Unlike chicken breasts, chicken thighs and drumsticks actually become more tender the longer they cook.

Chicken breasts, thighs or drumsticks

By placing cooking liquid in the bottom of the pressure cooker and placing the chicken in the steamer basket above the liquid, you are guaranteed tender, moist chicken every time. However, you can also use the cooker to make a sauce and cook your chicken submerged in flavour.

Here's how it works: You set a dry-rubbed raw chicken carcass on top of a half-full can of beer. (See the recipe at the bottom of this post.) Then you set it on a fired-up grill. The can acts as a stand, keeping the bird upright so it cooks evenly on a covered barbecue.

How to Substitute Other Cooking Liquids for Broth. Don't fret if bouillon isn't in your pantry and you need it for cooking; Wine , vermouth, and beer can also be used for as a substitute for broth in cooking.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Mix cola, ketchup, and Worcestershire together in a medium bowl. Season chicken with salt and pepper and place into a 9x13-inch baking dish. Pour cola mixture over top and cover the dish with a lid or aluminum foil.

In order to improve the taste of this canned protein, you need to add texture to it. For example, add cranberries and pecans to your next chicken salad for a textural boost. Toss your drained canned chicken in a bowl with mayonnaise, dried cranberries, pecans, and a scant amount of mayonnaise and Dijon mustard.

Canning Chicken

Do not add liquid. To hot pack: Boil, bake or steam meat until about two-thirds done. Pack hot meat loosely into hot jars and cover with hot broth, leaving 1 ¼ inch headspace.

Spray the chicken with apple cider vinegar.

This has the potential to prevent a crispy crust from forming, depending on how often you spray the chicken. However, the flavor of the apple cider vinegar will complement the chicken if you're smoking it over applewood wood chips.

If you're using booze to tenderize or marinate meat, replace the alcohol with soda, sparkling juice, acidic fruit juice, or vinegar. For alcohol-free flavor substitutions, go with what's going to taste the most like the alcohol you're leaving out.