Five-Ingredient Pressure Cooker (Instant Pot) Chicken Stew | Kenji's Cooking Show

chicken

🥗Healthier: turkey

💰Cheaper: chicken thighs

Turkey is leaner, while chicken thighs are often less expensive.

potatoes

🥗Healthier: sweet potatoes

💰Cheaper: yukon gold potatoes

Sweet potatoes offer more nutrients, while yukon golds are usually cheaper.

corn

🥗Healthier: quinoa

💰Cheaper: frozen corn

Quinoa is a high-protein alternative, while frozen corn is budget-friendly.

capers

🥗Healthier: green olives

💰Cheaper: dill pickles

Green olives provide a similar briny flavor, while dill pickles are less expensive.

Introduce the recipe and mention it's a chicken and potato stew.

Explain the use of a pressure cooker due to high elevation cooking.

Use chicken legs, season them with salt and pepper, and place them raw in the pressure cooker.

Add raw Yukon gold potatoes, cut into chunks, into the pressure cooker.

Take an onion, remove the outer layers, cut it into slivers, and add it raw to the pressure cooker.

Roughly cut a beef steak tomato and add it raw to the pressure cooker.

Add a couple of bay leaves raw to the pressure cooker.

Season everything with salt and pepper and give it a stir.

Close the pressure cooker without adding any extra liquid, relying on the moisture from the ingredients.

Set the pressure cooker to high pressure (12 psi) and cook for 15 minutes after reaching pressure.

Wait for the pressure cooker to come to pressure, which takes about 10 minutes.

Once pressure is reached, start the 15-minute timer for cooking.

After cooking, perform a quick release of the pressure.

Serve the stew, noting that all liquid comes from the ingredients, creating a concentrated broth.

Optionally, suggest reducing the broth for a thicker consistency if desired.

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