This Instant Pot Shredded Chicken instant pot chicken breast perfectly moist, perfectly seasoned, and it freezes perfectly for your weekly meal prep! The easy way to cook Instant Pot chicken breast for shredding, from fresh or frozen!

It’s a healthy addition to soups, salads, pastas or sandwiches throughout the week. We hardly need a recipe for that! It’s not even really a recipe. But since this here is not just a food blog full of delicious things for you — it’s also a collection of some of my favorite things — I get to say what goes here. Plus, there are so many delicious shredded chicken recipes that I know we’ll never run out of ways to use it. The seasoning on this Instant Pot Shredded Chicken is mild but so, so flavorful. It’s not too spicy or too salty or too peppery or too herby.

This flavorful pressure cooked Shredded Chicken is one of my favorite meal prep hacks to have stashed in the freezer. Make a double batch, divide it up into smaller portions and dinnertime is that much easier! Check out my Crockpot Shredded Chicken and my stovetop Shredded Chicken instead! Ingredients Needed: Chicken broth: I prefer to use low sodium broth and adjust my seasonings as desired. If your broth is salted, you may want to omit the salt and season at the end of the cook time. Seasoning salt includes a variety of other herbs and spices that give this pressure cooker shredded chicken a hit of flavor. You can use salt and add in paprika, onion powder and garlic powder.

Chicken breasts: boneless chicken breasts or boneless chicken thighs are preferred for this recipe. Any bone-in cuts of meat do require a longer cook time. How to Make Instant Pot Shredded Chicken: I know that this is such an easy recipe that most of you probably don’t need tips on how to make shredded chicken, but there are a few things that I think are key so I’m going to drop some hints anyway! Make sure you add enough liquid. You will drain most of the liquid afterward, so you will not be consuming the full amount of salt, etc. You can use either boneless chicken breasts or chicken thighs, or throw some of each in all together!

Thighs have a richer flavor, and breasts are leaner. How to shred chicken: There are a couple ways to shred the chicken once it is cooked. Chicken breasts coming out of your pressure cooker are pretty much falling apart without you having to do anything, so you don’t need to get fancy. I prefer to use two forks, because I’m lazy and I’m not into extra dishes. A lot of people will use a hand mixer or stand mixer to shred chicken, but I think it’s overkill. Who wants a huge stand mixer bowl to wash just for a few chicken breasts?