Shredded Mexican Chicken: Instant Pot – 21 Day Fix – Weight Watchers

Last week I re-engaged with the 21 Day Fix. The holidays kind of (totally) threw me for a loop, as they do. Always. Every year. It’s like I don’t know they’re coming, or something. Or when they do come, I just fall into a melty mess of cookies and wine and gravy and ain’t nobody taking my gravy away.

But then I get back to it (“it” being a mostly-healthy existence), and that’s where I’m at right now. What I’m super duper loving these days is my Instant Pot – and this Instant Pot shredded Mexican chicken is a super easy Instant Pot recipe – and not only is it 21 Day Fix-friendly, but I’ve also got the Weight Watchers points for you, too.

Instant Pot Shredded Mexican Chicken

If you like spicy, you’ll like this. It’s easy to take out some of the spice, though. Just remove the cayenne, make sure you don’t have a super spicy chili powder, and remove the jalapeno…that will take some of the bite out of this. 

Serves: 6

Serving size: split evenly onto six plates – to reduce you yellows, serve up fewer beans (you can actually use a container to measure out your beans for this one)

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts, frozen
• 1.5 cups non-fat, low-sodium chicken broth
• 2 10-oz cans Rotel fire-roasted diced tomatoes and green chiles, undrained (no sugar added!)
• 2 15-oz cans black beans, rinsed and drained
• 3-4 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 small jalapeno pepper, finely diced
• 1 T hickory-flavored liquid smoke (if you leave this out, you’ll be fine)
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 1 T chili powder
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 2 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper (leave this out if it’s too spicy)
• salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 limes, quartered
• 1.4 c fresh cilantro, chopped

Place the frozen chicken in your Instant Pot. Add all remaining ingredients to the pot. 

Lock the lid into place and make sure the pressure valve is set to seal. Set on manual for 16 minutes at high pressure. Once done, let the pressure release naturally.

Drain any liquid and shred the chicken.

Serve with letuce wraps, plain, over rice or on corn tortillas.

So easy, and takes less than 40 minutes from start to finish (including the pot pressurizing and then releasing). 

Container counts, per serving (serves 6 – I always round up to the nearest quarter – don’t forget to add containers if you eat with tortillas or rice):

• 1 red
• .5 green
• 1.25 yellow

Weight Watchers Freestyle Points:

4 points per serving, based on six servings.

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