Hawaiian BBQ Chicken {Electric Pressure Cooker Recipe}

From: peggyunderpressure.com

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 lbs. Chicken (Frozen or Fresh; Breast, Thighs, Wings or Drumettes
• 1 Cup BBQ Sauce
• 2 Cups Diced Pineapples (Canned or Fresh, don’t matter). I covered and layered ring pineapple on the bottom.
• 1 Cup Coconut Milk - Not the canned kind.
• 1 Tsp Chili Flakes (Optional, or more if you like more kick)
• Shredded Coconut (garnish)
• Juice of Limes (garnish)

Mix the BBQ Sauce, Coconut Milk and Chili Flakes together.  In the main cooking pan of your pressure cooker, put down the pineapples at the very bottom.  The reason why I put it on the bottom is that it will be closest to the heat source and will therefore render out the pineapple juice so the pressure cooker will use the juices to steam up and pressurize since the BBQ sauce mixture is quite thick and may burn if you put it on the very bottom.

Start dipping your chicken pieces in the BBQ sauce mixture, a thin coat is fine.  And put them into the pot one by one.  Pour the remaining sauce mixture over the chicken when you’re all done.

Shut the lid of your cooker, turn to lock it.  Set the pressure valve to Airtight.  Program the cook time for 10-minutes.

Once the cooking cycle is finished, your pressure cooker will beep and let you know that the chicken is ready to hula dance!  Release the pressure and unlock the lid.  The chicken and the pineapples will release a lot of juices during the pressure cooking process so everything will look extra liquidy.  Never fear.  Remove just the chicken with a pair of tongs and set aside temporarily.  Turn on the BROWNING feature on your pressure cooker by pressing the START button if you have this feature and reduce the sauce mixture so it’s nice and thick.  I also took out my trusty potato masher and mashed down the pineapples so they were more pulpy.  (If you want the sauce extra thick, you can also make a flour roux with a bit of the liquid ladled out in a little bowl, mix a bit of flour with it until smooth and pour it back into the pot.)

Once the sauce has thickened to your desired consistency, put all the chicken back in.  Now it’s ready to serve!  Serve it with rice or just eat it on its own.  Garnish with a healthy heap of shredded coconut and a squeeze of lime juice.