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Spice Rubbed Whole Chicken is a 21-Day Fix approved dinner, cooked to perfection in your slow cooker or Instant Pot. Just add your favorite sides and you have a complete meal, or use it in a recipe that calls for precooked chicken.
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Ingredients
- 1 Whole Chicken – 4 to 5 lbs for a 6 quart Instant Pot and 5-7 lbs for an 8 quart Instant Pot or Crock Pot
- 1 onion, quartered
- lemon
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cayenne
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup chicken broth or water (for IP)
Instructions
- Pat chicken dry with paper towels.
- Put onion in the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Mix spices together and coat the chicken skin. Place chicken in crock pot on top of the onions.
- Stuff the cavity with onions, lemon and fresh thyme if you have it.
- Cook on low for 6-8 hours. No liquid needed – this makes a ton of it’s own.
- If you really want to make your life easy, throw in some veggies. Or put some into a foil packet, place it right on top of the chicken, and they will steam all day long.
- Pat chicken dry with paper towels.
- Put onion in the bottom of the Instant Pot and pour chicken broth over top of the onions.
- Mix spices together and coat the chicken skin. Stuff the cavity with onions, lemon and fresh thyme if you have it.
- Place your trivet or sling at the bottom of your Instant Pot and put chicken on on top.
- Cook on manual (pressure cook on some models) at 6 minutes per pound. [For example, a 5 lb chicken will cook for 30 minutes.] . **If your chicken is frozen, cook for double the time!
- After cooktime, do a 15 minute natural release before finishing with a quick release.
Notes
21 Day Fix Containers: measure in your RED and be sure to take the skin off!
Weight Watchers FS: zero points for skinless breast meat; 1 point for 4 oz of skinless dark meat.
Keywords: meal prep, chicken, slow cooker, dinner, high protein, gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb