This easy 4 ingredient Crock Pot Express barbecue chicken recipe is our favorite healthy dinner! Moist pressure cooker shredded chicken with sauce makes tasty soft tacos that our kids love. Sweet and a little spicy you can make it with your favorite sauce and it's done in 20 minutes flat!

So we are all about easy meals. If we can use a few ingredients that are inexpensive, healthy, and make a meal our entire family loves that is a big win!! This easy 4 ingredient Crock Pot Express barbecue chicken recipe is one of those dinners. It's one of the easiest Crock Pot Express recipes We have.

Pressure Cooker Barbecue Chicken

We make pressure cooker shredded chicken fairly often because it's done in 20 minutes basically. This feeds all 5 of us for under $10, and is pretty healthy too!

We shred the chicken and serve it in small flour tortillas with cheese and guacamole but you could easily serve the breasts as is smothered in this sweet and tangy sauce with a side of rice or for a low carb pressure cooker meal, serve as is too.

We keep two of the ingredients in our pantry at all times in case we need an easy throw together meal, and we typically buy chicken breasts at the store for some kind of meal during the week so it's an easy one if we don't feel like trying something new or we are in a real hurry.

BBQ Crockpot Express Chicken Recipe

Like we said, you can serve the breasts straight out of the pot on top of some rice or alone but we like shredded chicken tacos for dinner, and if there are leftovers they are great for lunch for the next day too. We like to throw this into tortillas to make chicken tacos but you could serve over rice too.

You need 3 things; meat, sauce and a bit of liquid to thin that out. The other ingredients are optional but suggested. The canned fruit is to add a bit of sweetness in there, you could use the juice in that can instead of water too. Onion was an add in we like.

3 Ingredient Shredded Barbecue Chicken Ingredients

Boneless skinless chicken breasts – 4 small or 2 large and cut those in half
- this is directions for pressure cooker frozen chicken if that is all you have
Barbecue sauce – stay away from honey style as that high high sugar and can burn, we like this one
Can of chunk pineapple in a can
Onion – you can leave this out but it is great with it
Water

As far as serving them up you can add all the goodies right on there. For a low carb meal you could skip the carbs and enjoy as is right out of the pot too.

Crock Pot Express Chicken

Here is the printable recipe below for you below that you can keep handy but we also have a quick step by step here. Do not use sticky honey sauce as that will be much thicker and the sugars may cause the pot to trigger the burn notice.

How to Make Shredded Barbecue Chicken in Pressure Cooker

Empty bottle of barbecue sauce into your Crock Pot Express pressure cooker.
Cut your boneless skinless chicken breasts in half and put on bbq sauce.
Add 1/2 c. water into your barbecue sauce bottle, cover, shake, and empty into your pressure cooker.
Dump your can of pineapple chunks, with juice/small can at store, into your pot.
Add some thinly sliced onions if there if you want to.
Stir gently so chicken is coated with sauce.
Set Crock Pot Express to poultry setting for 12 minutes.

Allow to naturally release steam for 3 minutes, then quick release. If making tacos shred chicken in the pot use two forks to shred. Then add to small flour tortillas with cheese and fixings and enjoy.

Can you make shredded barbecue chicken with thighs?

Of course dark meat vs. light breasts will work as great. Those tend to be thiner and smaller so you could decrease the cook time to 10 minutes in that case if you wanted. If you cut into chunks ahead of time it would take 5 minutes tossed with your sauce.

How long does it take for raw chicken to cook in a crockpot express?

That depends. If you are keeping them whole, medium in size, 12 minutes is usually solid. Diced into smaller pieces you can get it done in 5 or set to saute with a bit of olive oil for about 4 minutes to cook without pressure cooking at all.

How to elevate shredded barbecue chicken?

You can make it spicy with diced jalapenos or hatch chiles if you like. Red pepper flakes or some cayenne can do the trick to add heat as well. Fold in some diced pineapple for sweetness, serve in tortillas for tacos or inside Hawaiian rolls for sliders.

If you have leftovers it is a great low carb meal and if you leave the pineapple and juices out a friend says it is her go to keto dinner as well. A quick and cheap Crock Pot Express pressure cooker recipe that we make often because it is so versatile. Yes our go to are these tacos but it's great on top a bed of rice too!

Crock Pot Express Barbecue Chicken

By Easy 4 ingredient Crock Pot Express barbecue chicken recipe is our favorite healthy dinner! Moist flavorful chicken shredded makes tasty soft tacos that our kids love. Sweet and a little spicy you can make it with your favorite sauce and it's done in 20 minutes flat! Prep: 5 minutes minsCook: 12 minutes minsTotal: 17 minutes minsServings: 5 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

1 pressure cooker

Ingredients

1 bottle barbecue sauce, 16 oz, not honey style
1 can pineapple, chunks, about 1 c. with juice
1/2-1 onion, sliced
1/2 c water, or broth
2-4 chicken breastsboneless skinless

Instructions

Empty bottle of barbecue sauce into your Crock Pot Express pressure cooker.
Cut your chicken breasts in half and put on bbq sauce.
Add 1/2 c. water into your barbecue sauce bottle, cover, shake, and empty into your pressure cooker.
Empty your can of pineapple chunks, with juice/small can at store, into your pot. Add sliced onion too if desired.
Stir gently so chicken is coated with sauce.
Set Crock Pot Express to poultry setting for 12 minutes. Then allow it to naturally release steam for 3 minutes.
Quick release and if making tacos shred chicken in the pot, then add to small flour tortillas with cheese and fixings and enjoy.