Chicken Pierre - Good

I cooked this one up on Friday night.  I hate cooking on Fridays usually because after a long week I'm just done!  This one didn't turn out quite as well as I had hoped, the chicken itself seemed a little bland.  I admit that the recipe said to coat the chicken in flour/salt/pepper and brown it in a skillet.  I didn't want to take that extra time and maybe that would have given it that extra bump of flavor but I'm not willing to add an extra 15-20 min to the prep time to do that.  

This is not something I made before. I found it on allrecipes.com which is my fav recipe site. There are lots of reviews which always give me good tips and advice on making the recipe even better. One tip was to use red wine instead of water and white wine instead of vinegar, I think I'll try that next time to see if it brings the extra flavor I want.  

Another change I'll be making is to cut the brown sugar way down  The sauce was really flavorful but a little sweet.  Next time I'll cut the brown sugar to 1 Tbls and if it's still to sweet I'll cut it to 1 tsp. Rather than cutting something out all together I find that it's better to cut it back little by little till I find the point where it tastes best to me.  

So the bottom line is that this was 10 min prep time, 8 min to get the pressure up and 20 min cooking on the Chicken setting for a total of 38 min.  This could be served over rice, noodles or potatoes - I cooked up some egg noodles but next time I think I'll do brown rice. That and a green salad made a really good meal.  

Chicken Pierre

6 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 can diced tomatoes, with liquid
1/2 cp water
2 Tbls brown sugar
2 Tbls white vinegar
2 Tble Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp mustard powder
1 clove garlic, minced
1/8 tsp hot pepper sauce

Trim the chicken breasts and place in the pressure cooker.  Combine the tomatoes, water, brown sugar and all the other ingredients in a small bowl.  Pour this over the chicken and using the Chicken setting start the pressure cooker.  


 

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