Ninja Foodi Chicken

Step 1

Remove chicken from the packaging.  Remove giblets from chicken and rinse chicken inside and outside and pat dry.  If chicken legs are not already tied together, use twine or string to tie them together. Tying the chicken legs together is OPTIONAL, but helps the chicken stay together when cooking.

Step 2

Create compound butter by combining the salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, Old Bay,  thyme, and 1/2 cup (8 tablespoons) of butter that has been softened.  Combine well.

Step 3

With the chicken breast side up, gently separate the skin from the meat by carefully inserting your fingers in between the skin and the meat. Be careful not to tear the skin, you don’t want holes in the skin.  It’s easier if you start at the bottom of the breast in between the legs.  Insert half of the compound butter in between the skin and the breast.

Step 4

Use the remaining compound butter to cover the outside of the chicken.

Step 5

Insert onion, half of the garlic, and half of the lemon slices inside the chicken.

Step 6

Make sure that your insert pan is inside the Ninja Foodi and then pour in the chicken broth and add the remaining garlic and lemon to the pot.

Step 7

Place the chicken into the crisping basket, make sure the chicken is breast side up. Put crisping basket into Ninja Foodi. Put the pressure cooker lid on, make sure the valve is on in the “seal” position, and pressure cook for 22 minutes on high. Once the timer stops, natural release pressure for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, quick-release remaining pressure. Carefully open the pressure cooker lid.  Do not remove the liquid from the pot.  This liquid will be used to make the gravy.  Close the crisping lid and select air crisp at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Lift the lid every couple minutes to check to see how crisp the skin is.  It may not take the entire 10 minutes to crisp up.   Once the chicken has reached the desired crispness, carefully remove the chicken and crisping basket from Ninja Foodi using silicone mits.  Using a ladle, remove the lemon and large garlic chunks from the remaining liquid.

Step 8

To make the gravy, turn the Ninja Foodi on saute and add the remaining butter.  Make a slurry for your gravy by combining 1/4 cup flour with 1/4 cup water.  I like to shake these together in a small mason jar.   Slowly pour in the slurry and use a silicone whisk to combine and thicken the gravy.  Continue to stir until gravy has reached the desired consistency-about 5 minutes.

Step 9

Slice chicken and serve with gravy.  Enjoy!!