Instant Pot Beer Can Chicken Recipe
Instant Pot beer can chicken is so easy and an amazingly flavorful way to cook a whole chicken in your pressure cooker that falls off the bone!
Servings: 6
Equipment
- 1 Instant Pot must be 8 qt to fit
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken 4-4.5 lbs.
- 1 can beer 12 oz
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp garlic minced
- 1/2 tsp seasoned salt
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
Instructions
- NOTE: This only works with 8 qt. electric pressure cookers, will not fit in 6 qt versions. Remove neck etc. from inside cavity of the bird if there is one. Discard all innards.
- Pour 3/4 of a cup of beer from your beer can into your pressure cooker.
- Rub olive oil on the outside of your chicken along with the minced garlic. Sprinkle the seasoned salt and garlic salt on the outside of your chicken as well.
- Put your beer can with remaining beer inside on the bottom, middle, of your pressure cooker.
- Put the open cavity of your chicken facing down and lower it on to your beer can. Insert as far as it will go inside your chicken.
- Close your lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 25 minutes.
- Allow to naturally release steam until there is no more left.
- Carefully pull out chicken (it will be falling apart)
- If you want skin crispy: Set oven to broil. Put chicken in oven safe dish, broil for 3-5 minutes or until outside/skin is as brown/crispy as you'd like it. OR put into large air fryer, spray top with olive oil, set at 400 F for about 6 minutes or as crispy as you want it.
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Nutrition
Serving: 4oz | Calories: 39kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Fat: 2g | Sodium: 390mg | Potassium: 11mg | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 5mg