Let's make chicken wings in your Instant Pot!
This recipe is super easy and takes only 14 minutes.
Serve the wings as appetizer while your guests are waiting for the main dish.
For this recipe we only use the pressure cook function, so no need for the Air Fryer Lid.
Contents
How to serve?
As is with many napkins...
If you want, you can dips like:
Can I use frozen wings?
Sure. In this case, increase the cooking time to 15 minutes (instead of 10)
What if I want crispy wings
If you still want your wings to be grilled, after cooking just broil them at a 375 ˚F for 10 minutes.
For more details and video guide, check out this Instant Pot Crispy Chicken Wings recipe.
Instant Pot Chicken Recipes
Instant Pot Chicken Enchiladas
Ingredients
- 12 pieces chicken wings
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 onion sliced
- ½ cup soy sauce
- 3 tablespoon suger
- 2 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon grated ginger
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 teaspoon sriracha sauce
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix together soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sugar, ginger, garlic, cornstarch, sriracha sauce, sliced onion and black pepper.
- Add Chicken wings to the sauce and marinated for 1 hour.
- Place the chicken wings with the sauce in the Instant Pot.
- Close the lid and cook at high pressure for 10 minutes.
- When cooking time is complete, wait for a natural pressure release for 10 minutes and then do a quick release and open the lid.
- Serve and enjoy 🙂
Nutrition
Calories: 75kcal Carbohydrates: 5g Protein: 3g Fat: 5g Saturated Fat: 1g Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g Monounsaturated Fat: 2g Trans Fat: 1g Cholesterol: 2mg Sodium: 1118mg Potassium: 91mg Fiber: 1g Sugar: 1g Vitamin A: 7IU Vitamin C: 3mg Calcium: 12mg Iron: 1mg
Notes
Recipe sounds good, but I just realized that you have missed the salt. How much salt should be added?
With the soy and sriracha sauces, salt does not need to be added.
These are absolutely delicious! I just bought my Instant Pot and started off with the easiest recipe. I couldn't believe that such an easy recipe could be so delicious. I will be making these again for sure. Perfectly cooked and highly recommended!
Thank you so much, Sherry! You have made my day. These are so easy to cook in the instant pot that I make them quite often for my family.
Can you cook multiple layers of chicken wings or just one layer on the trivet at a time? Can load up the Instant Pot?
Hi Angelic! It should be fine as long as you don’t go past the fill mark. Hope this helps!
can you cook true fried wings with oil in the IP?
No. Check out this article for more information: https://www.corriecooks.com/can-you-deep-fry-using-a-pressure-cooker/
I have a question - If you are using the Air Fryer lid, do you cook the chicken in the IP for ten minutes and then and additional ten minutes at 350 using the AFL?
Thank you - this sounds like a great recipe!
VJ
Yes, that's exactly right 🙂 I hope you like it!
Can you make these from frozen or do the wings need to be defrosted?
If you use frozen wings, add 2 minutes to the cooking time.
Hi Corrie, just received my Instant Pot Air fryer lid. My first go to will be Chicken Wings. Question: Can I slather the wings with the sauce first then cook them for 10 minutes then use the air fryer lid to crisp up?
Hi Christine! Yes, you could definitely try that. Sounds delicious.
Hi. At what point do you add the cornstarch?
Oh sorry, that should be part of the sauce too, added to the bowl with all of the other ingredients. I will update the recipe.
Corrie 2 things - where is the updated recipe - how much corn starch should be added?? Also, if I wanted to make 2 or 3 dozen do I just add them on top of each other???
Diane
1 tbsp. of cornstarch should be added in the first step. And yes, you can have them stacked in pressure cooker mode, but they should be in a single layer if using the air fryer mode.
Do you take the wings out of the IP and put them in the basket and then air fry or leave them in the sauce?
If you want to finish them with the air fryer lid to crisp them up, take the wings out of the IP and put them in the fryer basket.
I am confused, I have read the recipe many times and no mention of air fryer yet in the Q and A section you mention IP and AF in an answer to VJ, combined cooking time of 20 minutes.
There's an accessory that is sold separately from the Instant Pot, the Crisp Lid or Air Fryer lid, that basically turns the Instant Pot into an air fryer. If you have one of those, there's an optional step at the end of this recipe to use it to make the wings more crispy. See the part above titled "How to make crispy chicken wings." You can also use the oven if you don't have an Air Fryer lid accessory. Hope that helps!