Instant Pot Frozen Whole Chicken Recipe

4.64 from 11 votes

How to cook an Instant Pot whole frozen chicken or in your Ninja Foodi pressure cooker! From rock hard frozen to tender and juicy in 1 hour.

Prep Time5

Cook Time1

Total Time1 5

Course: Entree, Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chicken and dumplings, frozen, instant pot, pressure cooker, whole

Servings:

Author: Justine

4.5 pound frozen chicken whole, mine was 4.4 lbs. so timing is appropriate for that size
1 cup chicken broth or water
1 small onion sliced
1 tsp seasoned salt
1 tsp garlic salt

Pour chicken broth or water into your pressure cooker followed by your sliced onions.
Place your trivet on top of that (if it rests on the onions that is okay).
Unwrap your frozen chicken and place it on top of your trivet.
Close your lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 60 minutes.
Allow to naturally release steam for 15 minutes.
Carefully remove chicken (it will want to fall apart), and put it into an 8x8 dish. Then you can make gravy from chicken drippings if you like.
Sprinkle the top with seasoning salt, and/or whatever you usually add on top of your whole chicken when you bake it.
Turn your broiler on and put your chicken in for 3-4 minutes or until skin crisps up as much as you'd like.
Serve!! (we love shredding it from there and making soft chicken tacos)