Aromatic Lemon Chicken
Easy and flavorful Aromatic Lemon Chicken requires just a few ingredients and less than an hour to cook to tender juicy perfection. Use whole chicken, bone in chicken or boneless chicken.
Ingredients
- 3 to 3 ½ pound chicken whole, bone-in pieces
- 2 to 3 lemons
- 1 tablespoon aromatic bitters
- 1 cup water
- black pepper to taste optional
Instructions
- Place trivet in pressure cooker and add 1 cup water.
- Slice lemons thinly and remove all seeds.
- Sprinkle all sides of the chicken with bitters and sprinkle with black pepper (optional). Place on trivet in pressure cooker
- Cover the chicken with lemon slices (and stuff in the cavity for whole chicken).
- Seal the lid and cook at high pressure:whole chicken, 8 minutes a poundbone in chicken pieces, 12 minutesboneless chicken pieces, 6-8 minutes
- Keep pressure cooker closed for 8 minutes after cooking, then release the remaining pressure.
- Place chicken (in a single layer for pieces) on a broiler pan with some of the lemon slices. Broil on high until the chicken is browned, about 5 minutes.