 Hey everyone, today we are making some turkey thighs in the Instant Pot. This is very simple to make and it comes out pretty quick. It cooks up in about 30 minutes and we're going to end up with a nice little gravy sauce at the bottom of our pot that we can use. Serve this with mashed potatoes or cauliflower mashed potatoes. It's delicious. I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after our chef joke. Are you ready for chef joke number one? Here we go. What kind of weather does a turkey like? Foul weather. So let's get started with our recipe and first thing you're going to need to know about is your Instant Pot. Now that's what I'm using today and you want to use the rack that comes with it, just like this. And what that's going to do is going to keep our turkey thighs out of the liquid. Now for our turkey, you can see here I have two turkey thighs and they are very large. What we want to do is to brown those up, get a nice little crispy golden brown exterior on these. They're so big I can't do them in the Instant Pot so we're going to do them over on the stove in a cast iron pan. So first thing we're going to do is season up our turkey thighs, I keep wanting to say chicken, turkey with some salt and pepper. I have my cast iron pan here over medium, high heat. I want a nice hot pan so I'm going to add about a tablespoon of olive oil to that. I'm going to grab one of these massive thighs and place it in the pan and I'm going to do it skin side down. So we're going to let these brown up for about four or five minutes or until they're nice and golden brown. Then we're going to turn them over and do the same thing on the second side. You'll notice that I'm using a splatter guard here and it really helps keep the oil from, you know, getting all over your stove. All right, I'm going to take these off now and place them on a clean plate. So I'm going to turn the heat down a little bit for this. We're going to add our onion, some celery and carrots and we're going to saute these for about seven minutes and we're going to add just a little bit of salt to that. Now the pan is going to pick up these little bits from the turkey and add a lot of flavor to the sauce. It's been about seven minutes now and you can see that this is cooking up, softening up. I'm going to turn the heat down. A lot of times you'll get stuff, brown bits stuck to the bottom of your pan. I don't happen to have that but that's what this next step is. It's deglazing the pan so I just put in a little bit of wine and I'm just going to let that cook for just a minute so that it will cook out the alcohol, at least some of it, and add some flavor. Now some of you are going to ask me, can I leave out the alcohol? Yes, you certainly can leave out the white wine, no problem. Use just more, just use a little bit more chicken broth. So now I'm going to go place this in the instant pot. So now I'll place the rack in there and then we'll add some chicken broth to this. So in this dish here I have my spices. I have some ground sage, thyme, basil, and then I have fresh rosemary just because I have a lot of it in my yard so it's easy to get. So I just want to show you that. We'll mix this together and I'm going to add a pinch of salt to this because I didn't salt the second side of my thighs and that's going to be my little rub that I'm going to rub over all of this along with some garlic, which I have right here. Now I'm going to add just a little bit of olive oil to the tops of these just so that the spices will definitely stick. So I'm just going to kind of sprinkle this on and rub it in and I'm going to flip it over and do the other side too. Now I have some minced garlic here that I'm going to also rub in just because I love garlic. Make sure that you coat both sides of the turkey thighs and then if I have any spices left over in my dish I'm going to put them in with the sauce so you've got a little bit of that flavor going in there. And then we just place our thighs right on the rack and you're going to have to kind of turn them on and a little bit if they don't fit easily. This one here is really jumbo size. I should have put that one in first. There we go. All right, so we'll put our top on and we're going to pressure cook this for 35, sometimes they even go 40 minutes because I like it really tender. Maybe I'll go 36. What the heck? We're good to go. Our turkey is cooking for 35 minutes so that means we have time for Chef Joke number two. All right, here we go. What sound does a turkey's phone make? Wing wing, wing wing. If you're enjoying this video, you know how you can let me know? One easy thing you have to do is just smash the old like button or if you don't want to smash it you can just click it. So I want to thicken up my sauce in the pot there. So I'm going to take some arrowroot and I like to use arrowroot because corn starch is GMO. I'm going to add a little bit of the chicken broth here to this just to make a little slurry and if you don't have any more chicken broth for whatever reason, you can use water. Just use cold water. All right, the instant pot is done so I like to use a wooden spoon to release the pressure. Once that pressure is released that little pin will drop down and then you know it's safe to open. Now we're going to take the turkey thighs out of the pot and I'm going to set them over here on this plate. Now I'm also going to take the rack out which is going to be hot so I'm going to try and do it with these tongs. Hopefully I can just take it out and set it over here. Now I'm going to turn the instant pot to saute. Now I only added one tablespoon of arrowroot to this. You might like your sauce to be a little thicker so you can go maybe two tablespoons. Somewhere in there. You just have to play with it. All right, so once our sauce is boiling or bubbling like this, slow simmer, now it's time to add the arrowroot. I just take a wooden spoon and just stir this as I'm pouring it in. Now you can see that it's thickened up just a little bit. You know when I first tried making the turkey in the instant pot I was floored by how delicious it turned out. I mean it is moist, it is juicy, it is flavorful. It is every bit as delicious as any Thanksgiving turkey I've ever had. Now I think some nice mashed potatoes or even some cauliflower mashed potatoes would go great with this, right? So these cauliflower mashed potatoes are easy to make and they are, every bit is delicious and they keep the carbs low. Thanks so much for watching, don't forget to subscribe to my channel, leave me a comment and we'll see you next time. Take care.