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Home » Recipes By Meal » Chicken » 20 Second Shredded Chicken (Shred Chicken With Kitchenaid)

20 Second Shredded Chicken (Shred Chicken With Kitchenaid)

Published: Mar 20, 2019 · Modified: Oct 16, 2019 by WholeLottaYum · This post may contain affiliate links · Find our privacy policy here

Whether you need shredded chicken for a specific recipe or just like to meal prep and use it for a variety of reasons during the week, having it on hand makes for quick and easy meals. Using a stand mixer to shred chicken with Kitchenaid mixer or another brand, unbelievably only takes 20 seconds!

We’ve been regularly cooking 1-2lb of frozen chicken in an instant pot to turn into shredded chicken. Even if we don’t have a certain recipe in mind, shredded chicken is amazing for chicken salad, chicken wraps, chicken tacos, casseroles, in soups and mixed with pasta.

Cooking frozen chicken breasts or frozen chicken tenders in a pressure cooker is my favorite way to cook the chicken I’m planning to shred.

shred chicken with kitchenaid

How to Shred Chicken

There’s more than one way to shred chicken depending on your personal preference, the amount of time you have and what kitchen tools you have on hand. Here are the most common and the best ways to shred the chicken:

Shredding chicken with two forks or meat claws

Shredded chicken with a hand mixer

Or you can shred chicken with Kitchen-aid (or another brand) of stand mixer

OR

Buy shredded chicken (found in the freezer section). You could also use canned chicken in a pinch, depending on the recipe

While this photo is actually of pork, I just wanted to share how cool the meat claws are–which is my husband’s favorite way to shred meat. As a matter of fact, he gets excited when it’s time to pull out the meat claws!

shred chicken in kitchenaid

Cooking Chicken to Shred

Before you can get started with making shredded chicken, you first need to cook the chicken to shred. My favorite ways to cook it is either:

With an instant pot

Boil chicken to shred on the stove top

Roasting chicken in the oven 

Before I had an instant pot, I’d usually cook chicken on the stovetop. If a recipe would work better with roasted chicken, than I’d use that cooking method instead.

frozen chicken in instant pot

Cooking 1 -2 pounds at a time is usually what I do so I can make sure there are lots of leftovers for the week. 

Shredded Chicken in Kitchenaid

On to the magic! 

Are you wondering HOW we were able to shred 2 pounds of cooked chicken in only 20 seconds?

With a Kitchen-aid mixer of course! You cannot find a device that’ll give you such a quick shred as a Kitchen-aid. I’ve had mine 19 years and it’s still going strong. Best wedding gift ever!

shred chicken with kitchenaid

Being totally honest here, I could NOT believe how quickly a Kitchen-aid mixer shredded the cooked chicken tenders so quickly. I assumed it would probably take 1 -2 minutes.

If you’re using chicken breasts, a hand mixer, or a different brand of stand mixer, it could take slightly longer. 

But even if it takes over a minute to shred your chicken, avoiding the process of hand shredded is so very much worth it. 

Shred Chicken with Kitchenaid

Here’s our quick little Youtube video on making shredded chicken with a Kitchenaid mixer. 

Can you even believe how quickly the chicken tenders just fall apart and shred so easily?

Seriously, once you shred chicken in Kitchenaid type mixers you’ll never want to go back to the cumbersome fork shredding option.

Shredded Chicken Recipes

Here’s some of our favorite shredded chicken recipe uses for all of this easy meal prep chicken we just made:

A shredded chicken casserole like our chili verde casserole

Shredded chicken tacos

Pulled chicken sandwiches

Chicken salad – either the simple kind mixed with mayo or by serving roasted shredded chicken on top of a hearty main dish salad

Chicken zoodle soup or classic noodle soup

Freezing Shredded Chicken

Freezing shredded chicken is super easy and a great way to keep extra on hand when you need it for a last minute meal.

To freeze shredded chicken I either:

Put it in quart size freezer bags and squeeze the air out of the bag to help it last as long as possible. Frozen shredded chicken should keep for about  2 months. 

Most likely if you’re like me, all of your shredded chicken will be gone way before then and won’t be in the freezer very long at all!

We also LOVE to use our Seal-a-Meal to store pre-cooked frozen chicken!

Because it’s removing all of that extra air and vacuum sealing, you can store it in your freezer for even longer.

Vaccum sealed chicken pieces will last in the freezer for about 9 months.

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We hope you enjoyed our shredded chicken tips and tricks, are you a convert to making shredded chicken in a Kitchenaid mixer like we are too? 😉 So easy and simple!

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