Quick and Simple Instant Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic – from FROZEN Chicken
by Ed
This Instant Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic recipe is a keeper! Need some reasons why? Here you go…
Despite our pretty consistent meal planning, there’s often a chicken meal that we decide we want to have, but we don’t have chicken defrosted.
So, we resort to these hacks to try and get the bird from concrete to cookable and they all leave something to be desired:
- Microwave and rotate, microwave and rotate
- When executed perfectly, with regular flipping and vigilant watching, you might actually have success with this.
- Us? We end up with chicken that is cooked through and tough in some parts and frozen solid in others.
- Sealed in plastic, defrost in sink full of warm water
- This takes longer than the microwave method and has some food safety issues that make Robin cringe.
- Sometimes successful, sometimes produces chicken that feels defrosted on the outside, but has an icy core and produces an uncooked centre when you try and use it. Like a Cadbury egg, but with botulism.
- Just chopping it up frozen and cooking as is
- If you have the knife and upper body strength for this, it isn’t a bad option.
- Also if that is the case, you might be a Bond villain, so maybe cooking chicken isn’t your big focus.
- In any event, you still risk chopping fingers off or producing an uneven cook.
Enter the Instant Pot and its ability to cook perfectly from frozen.
That’s why we created this whole collection of Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Recipes!
A lifesaver (possibly literally).
We’ve shown how to do this already with a popular Teriyaki-Chicken-from-frozen and we are pretty jazzed to have another chicken one to add to our library.
This from frozen Instant Pot Lemon Chicken with garlic recipe uses our favourite setting to add flavour: Sauté. It combines some butter and stock to keep things tender and juicy during the pressure cook. Plus it has a savoury-tart mix of seasoning and citrus that make it delicious.
But don’t take our word for it – dig some chicken out of your freezer right now and you can be trying it yourself in half an hour.
Lemon Garlic Chicken Instant Pot from Frozen Recipe
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 Red onion, chopped
2 Chicken thighs
1/2 Tsp garlic powder
1/2 Tsp onion powder
1/2 Tsp Italian seasoning
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 Cup chicken stock
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2-3 Lemon slices
Directions:
Note: This is A LOT of butter for a more decadent restaurant level meal – we cut this in half for weeknights.
Close the lid and valve and set on high pressure for 13 minutes.
Open the valve and lid and add the lemon slices.
Stir to combine and let it rest for 5 minutes before serving.
Instant Pot Lemon Chicken with Garlic - from FROZEN Chicken!
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp butter (half this for a less decadent but still delicious meal)
- 1/2 Red onion, chopped
- 2 Chicken thighs
- 1/2 Tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 Tsp onion powder
- 1/2 Tsp Italian seasoning
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2-3 Lemon slices
Instructions
- Set the Instant Pot on the sautee setting and melt the butter.
- Add the onion and cook until translucent, around 4 minutes,
- Add the chicken thighs, frozen and cook until the skin is golden, around 3 minutes.
- Add the seasonings, chicken stock and lemon juice and stir to combine.
- Close the lid and valve and set on high pressure for 13 minutes.
- Manually release steam. Open the valve and lid and add the lemon slices.
- Stir to combine and let it rest for 5 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 422Total Fat: 30gSaturated Fat: 13gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 17gCholesterol: 199mgSodium: 555mgCarbohydrates: 7gFiber: 1gSugar: 3gProtein: 33g
You can’t beat Instant Pot Dump Recipes for speedy meals – and especially Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Recipes – we’ve got this delicious collection and have shared lots of our own:
- Instant Pot Chicken Fried Rice
- Quick Tender Ribs in the Instant Pot
- Instant Pot Korean Beef
- Instant Pot BBQ Whole Chicken
- Beer Brisket Instant Pot
- Delicious & Easy Mexican Instant Pot Chicken Tacos from frozen
- Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Recipes
And here’s another quick and easy lemon chicken recipe: Sheet Pan Lemon Butter Chicken Thighs and Potatoes
Robin and Ed are a DIY-loving couple with over 25 years of design and build experience. Also, Robin is a Nutritionist and former Registered Dietitian and Ed is an award-winning Business Educator. We share strategies for living a rich life on a DIY budget: creative money-savvy ideas for a stylish home, healthy meals and family fun. Our work has been published in the pages of Do It Yourself, Farmhouse Style and Better Homes & Gardens magazines.
