Pressure Cooker Chicken Wings
Pressure cooker chicken wings are tender, flavorful, and ready in just 30 minutes. Made with a delicious soy-honey marinade that’s perfect for dipping, this easy dish is bound to become your new favorite game day recipe.
I love chicken wings! One of the things I love about this recipe is the wings cook fast and after broiling for a few minutes, they come out crispy and the flavor of the marinade is out of this world.
I’ve gotten emails from my readers asking me if they could make instant pot chicken wings instead of using a pressure cooker. Here’s what I’ve explained: the instant pot is a brand of the pressure cooker.
I’ve also had to explain that the crockpot was the original brand slow cooker. So, if you have a slow cooker, you can make any recipe that is labeled crockpot or slow cooker.
So whether you have a pressure cooker or instant pot, this recipe is for you!
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Helpful tips
- Depending on how full the cooker is, it takes around 10 – 15 minutes to come to full cooking pressure. (Similar to preheating your oven, you’ll need to factor this into your prep time.)
- You can either wait for the pressure to release naturally or you can do a quick release. Here’s how: don an oven mitt and carefully nudge the venting valve to the venting position.
- When it’s time to crisp up the skin, you can either add the chicken to a large baking dish and pour the marinade in with the wings. Or you can also line a large jelly roll pan with aluminum foil before adding the wings and marinade to it.
- If you want a different marinade or sauce, you can use buffalo chicken sauce or your favorite barbecue sauce.
How to make pressure cooker chicken wings
Step one
Gather the ingredients – chicken wings, chicken broth and the ingredients for the marinade sauce. (A)
Step two
Press the sauté button and let it heat for a few minutes. Add 3 tablespoon of broth and the chicken wings.
Sauté for 3 minutes. Stir and cook for another 3 minutes.
Make the marinade while the chicken is cooking. See recipe card.
Step three
Press the off button, remove the wings from the pressure cooker and place them on a plate. (C) You can also see the marinade in the background.
Step four
Add 3/4 cup of broth in the pressure cooker and place a steamer rack insert inside the container.
Add the partially cooked chicken wings on the insert. (D)
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Step five
Seal the lid, making sure the venting valve is in the lock position.
Press the manual button (or pressure cook button), make sure the mode is set to normal and it is on high pressure and set the timer to 10 minutes.
Step six
Get out a large baking dish and put the chicken wings in it. Pour the marinade and toss the wings to coat.
Turn your oven broiler on high.
Step seven
Place the baking dish directly under the broiler and set the timer for 3 minutes.
Pull the chicken wings out and flip them over and place them back under the broiler for 2 minutes. I do that one more time so they get nice and crispy.
Plate the crispy chicken wings and pour the marinade in a little dipping bowl.
See how crispy the wingettes got?
I grab a wing and dip it in the delicious marinade.
I lift that mouth-watering wing to chomp on it. The taste is glorious!
I love this recipe for pressure cooker chicken wings because they’re so deliciously crispy and because they’re so easily and quickly prepared for your hungry hordes.
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Pressure Cooker Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 1 cup chicken broth (divided – 1/4 will go in when sauteeing, the rest after)
- 3.5 pounds chicken wings approx 28 wings
Marinade
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon basil dried
Instructions
- Plug in the pressure cooker and press the sauté button. Add 1/4 chicken broth once it has heated up. (Set aside the rest of the broth for step 3)1 cup chicken broth
- Add chicken and sauté for 3 minutes. Stir and cook for another 3 minutes. Remove the chicken and place it on a plate and set it aside.3.5 pounds chicken wings
- Add 3/4 cup chicken broth and place metal insert in pressure cooker. Pile the partially cooked chicken on metal insert. Seal pressure cooker and make sure the venting knob is in the lock position.1 cup chicken broth
- Press the 'manual' button, next press the adjust button and lower the time to 10 minutes. Note: it will take 13 – 15 minutes to come to pressure before it will start the countdown and start cooking.
- You can either let the pressure release naturally which will take an additional 10 minutes or carefully quick release the pressure like I do. Make sure to wear an oven mitt so you don't get burned by the steam.
- Unseal the pressure cooker lid, remove chicken wings, and place them in a baking dish.
- Anytime during the cooking of the chicken wings, you can make the marinade. Place soy sauce, honey, garlic powder, onion powder, and basil in a mixing bowl and whisk the ingredients until they are combined.1/2 cup soy sauce, 1/2 cup honey, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1 teaspoon onion powder, 1 teaspoon basil
- Pour marinade on the chicken and set the oven to broil (high). As you are waiting for the oven to heat up, flip the wings in the marinade a few times.
- Stick the baking dish under the broiler for 3 minutes, remove from oven and flip the wings, broil for 2 minutes. Remove and flip the wings one more time and broil for another 2 minutes until crispy on all sides.
- Plate chicken wings and pour marinade in a little dipping bowl
- Pick up a wing, dip it in the marinade, eat, and enjoy.
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- Depending on how full the cooker is, it takes around 10 – 15 minutes to come to full cooking pressure. (Similar to preheating your oven, you’ll need to factor this into your prep time.)
- You can either wait for the pressure to release naturally or you can do a quick release. Here’s how: don an oven mitt and carefully nudge the venting valve to the venting position.
- When it’s time to crisp up the skin, you can either add the chicken to a large baking dish and pour the marinade in with the wings. Or you can also line a large jelly roll pan with aluminum foil before adding the wings and marinade to it.
- If you want a different marinade or sauce, you can use buffalo chicken sauce or your favorite barbecue sauce.
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I love these wings! Pressure cooker makes this recipe so simple too. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you Tara!! I love wings too and thankfully hubby does as well!
My husband is ALL about chicken wings, but to be honest, I’ve never made them. I just got a Instant pot and these look delicious and easy to make! I’m for sure going to have to surprise him with this recipe!
Thanks, Christine. I’m sure he’ll enjoy them.
I know it’s weird but I don’t have a pressure cooker but I know I desperately need to get one ASAP! Your chicken looks freaking amazing!! and I can totally see myself now dipping my fingers in that marinade and licking them lol
Thanks Carissa! I have to admit that I was happy hubby and I were the only ones eating these so I could double dip! Hehe!
I had never thought of making wings in my pressure cooker. They came out wonderful. Loved the marinade too.
Thanks so much Prasanna!
Hooray for crispy wings! And these were perfect!
Thanks, Christopher.
I’m still getting the hang of using our pressure cooker and I’ll be honest, it’s a little intimidating! I haven’t tried cooking any meat yet so this is gonna be my next try. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I know exactly what you mean Jordan! Thanks for your comment and I hope you enjoy it.
I’m kind of obsessed with these chicken wing recipe. It was seriously delicious.
Yay! Thanks, Karyl!
I hadn’t had wings in a long time. These were really good and I love how easy the recipe is.
Thanks, Sara. I appreciate it.
I would love to try it, but do you have any advice if the wings are frozen? I would greatly appreciate your input!
Viv, from what I understand, if your wings are frozen it will just take extra time for the pressure cooker/Instant pot to come to pressure but the cooking time is the same. You will be using the broiler to crisp up the skin, so I’m sure they will be done. I have never done it with frozen wings, so please let me know how it came out? You can always add time after you open the IP to look at the chicken. I don’t think you will have to though.