Description
Michael’s Chicken can be made in the Instant Pot or Crockpot. It is chicken thighs with a homemade barbecue sauce cooked together at the same time.
Ingredients
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- 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 Tbsp ketchup
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp liquid smoke
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- Salt and pepper
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
Instant Pot Instructions:
- In a pot-in-pot dish whisk together the Worcestershire, vinegar, ketchup, brown sugar, liquid smoke and tomato paste.
- Pour the broth into the Instant Pot. Add chicken thighs into the pot. Salt and pepper the chicken.
- Place the pot-in-pot dish on top of the chicken (you can use a trivet but you don’t have to).
- Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 10 minutes. When time is up let pot sit for 5-10 minutes and then move valve to venting. Remove the lid.
- Carefully remove the pot-in-pot dish. Drain the Instant Pot of the broth.
- Add the sauce from the pot-in-pot dish into the Instant Pot with the chicken.
- If you’d like to thicken the sauce make a cornstarch slurry by stirring together the cornstarch and 2 Tbsp of water until smooth. Turn the pot to the sauté setting and then stir the slurry into the pot until the sauce thickens.
- Serve the chicken with sauce drizzled on top.
Slow Cooker Instructions:
- In the bottom of the slow cooker whisk together the Worcestershire, vinegar, ketchup, brown sugar, liquid smoke and tomato paste.
- Add the chicken into the slow cooker (no broth is needed for the slow cooker version). Salt and pepper the chicken.
- Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours.
- Stir, serve and enjoy!
Notes
To bake in the oven mix up the sauce in a bowl. Place chicken in a baking dish. Lightly salt and pepper the chicken. Pour the sauce over the chicken. Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. This would be really good with bone-in chicken pieces.
- Category: Chicken
- Method: Instant Pot or Slow Cooker