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Instant Pot Chicken Wings {Fresh or Frozen}

143 · Feb 21, 2021 · 6 Comments

Appetizers & Snacks

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Buffalo chicken wings on white platter with carrots, celery and ranch.

Instant Pot Chicken Wings are ready in less than 30 minutes, these Buffalo Chicken Wings are the most tender and flavorful chicken wings and they are made with completely clean ingredients! Make Instant Pot Chicken Wings from frozen or fresh.

Originally published on February 21, 2020. Last updated on February 21, 2021.

Instant Pot Chicken Wings on a white serving plate with carrots, celery and homemade ranch dressing.

Instant Pot Chicken Wings

Wings are something I used to order out, I didn’t commit to making them at home often but these Instant Pot Chicken Wings are too easy not to put in my regular rotation! They are the perfect game day food, appetizer or as part of your dinner spread and perfect with the BEST ranch dressing recipe ever!

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Raw chicken wings on the metal trivet inside the Instant Pot before cooking.

Ingredients to make Paleo Chicken Wings

  • chicken drumettes also called party wings – I get mine from ButcherBox
  • unrefined sea salt
  • freshly cracked black pepper
  • hot sauce
  • ghee
  • honey or coconut aminos for whole30
  • garlic powder

How to make Instant Pot Chicken Wings Frozen or Fresh

The Instant Pot makes cooking chicken wings so quick and easy! Now you can make perfectly cooked wings in under 30 minutes! *Full ingredients list and instructions listed below in the recipe card.

  1. Sprinkle the salt and pepper evenly over the wings so all sides are seasoned.
  2. Pour water into the bottom of the Instant Pot then place the metal trivet in the bottom of the Instant Pot.
  3. Place the wings on the trivet, stacking as many as needed.
  4. Place the lid on the Instant Pot, lock and set the valve to sealing.
  5. For Fresh Wings: Select pressure cook / manual on high for 10 minutes.
    For Frozen Wings: Select pressure cook / manual on high for 15 minutes.
  6. While the wings cook make the buffalo sauce in a small saucepan over low heat. Mix the hot sauce, ghee, honey and garlic powder until smooth and combined then set aside.
  7. Once the cooking has finished, allow the pressure to naturally release for 5 minutes, then quick release all remaining pressure.
  8. Remove the wings from the Instant Pot using tongs and place them in a large mixing bowl.
  9. Pour half of the buffalo sauce over top the chicken wings and gently toss the wings until fully coated.
  10. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper place an oven safe wire rack on top of the parchment paper. Arrange the wings on the wire rack evenly spaced. (If you don’t have an oven safe wire rack you can place the wings right on the parchment paper but they won’t get as crisp.
  11. Broil the chicken wings under high heat for 2-3 minutes per side until the skin is crisp.
  12. Once the wings are crispy remove them from the oven and brush each wing with the remaining buffalo sauce.
  13. Serve with carrot sticks, celery sticks and my amazing ranch dressing.
Ingredients for paleo buffalo sauce in a small glass bowl.
Cooked Instant Pot Chicken Wings in a large glass mixing bowl with buffalo sauce being poured overtop.
Chicken wings on a wire rack ready for the oven.

Instant Pot Fresh Chicken Wings

For Fresh Instant Pot Chicken Wings, cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.

Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Wings

To make Instant Pot Frozen Chicken Wings, cook on high pressure for 15 minutes. Cooking frozen food may take up to 20 minutes for pressure to be reached in the Instant Pot.

Overview of Instant Pot Chicken Wings on a white serving plate with carrots, celery and homemade ranch dressing.

Whole30 Chicken Wings

To turn these paleo chicken wings into Whole30 Chicken Wings be sure to use Frank’s Red Hot Original as your hot sauce or another whole30 compliant hot sauce for making the buffalo sauce and omit the honey. You can omit the honey completely and stick with the same recipe or substitute 2 Tablespoons coconut aminos for the 1 Tablespoon of honey called for to keep a bit of the sweetness in this recipe in a whole30 compliant way.

What I love about chicken drumsticks

They are affordable! Looking for Instant Pot Chicken Drumstick Recipes? It’s easy to use this affordable cut of meat to make a tasty meal with minimal ingredients.

They stay moist! Because of the bone to meat ratio on a chicken drumstick they stay moist and tender AND you can keep the leftover bones to use in bone broth. I simply keep the bones in a freezer bag until I have enough to make a batch of bone broth with.

They are fun! In my experience, everyone loves a good chicken wing/drumstick. Kids and adults alike eat them up and there is no limit to the ways you can serve them. Include them in your game day spread, movie night snack line up or as a part of an “appetizer dinner” for a fun dinner idea.

Instant Pot Chicken Wings, one wing being picked up, on a white serving plate with carrots, celery and homemade ranch dressing.

More Instant Pot Chicken Recipes

  • Healthy Chicken Pot Pie Soup
  • Instant Pot White Chicken Chili
  • Healthy Chicken Potato Soup
  • Healthy Sweet and Sour Chicken
  • Flavorful Instant Pot Shredded Chicken

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Instant Pot Chicken Wings on a white serving plate with carrots, celery and homemade ranch dressing.

Instant Pot Chicken Wings (Fresh or Frozen)

★★★★★ 5 from 3 reviews
  • Author: Nicole
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 1.5 pounds of chicken wings 1x
  • Category: Appetizers & Snacks
  • Method: Instant Pot
  • Cuisine: American
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Description

Instant Pot Chicken Wings are ready in less than 30 minutes, these Buffalo Chicken Wings are the most tender and flavorful chicken wings and they are made with completely clean ingredients! Make Instant Pot Chicken Wings from fresh or frozen.


Ingredients

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Instant Pot:

  • 1.5 lbs chicken drumettes also called party wings
  • 1/2 teaspoon unrefined sea salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
  • 1.5 cups of water

Buffalo Sauce:

  • 1/2 cup hot sauce
  • 2 Tablespoons ghee
  • 1 Tablespoon *raw honey (see note below to make whole30 compliant)
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Serve with:

  • Carrot sticks
  • Celery sticks
  • The BEST Ranch Dressing

Instructions

  1. Sprinkle the salt and pepper evenly over the wings so all sides are seasoned.
  2. Pour water into the bottom of the Instant Pot then place the metal trivet in the bottom of the Instant Pot.
  3. Place the wings on the trivet, stacking as many as needed.
  4. Place the lid on the Instant Pot, lock and set the valve to sealing.
  5. For Fresh Wings: Select pressure cook / manual on high for 10 minutes.
    For Frozen Wings: Select pressure cook / manual on high for 15 minutes.
  6. While the wings cook make the buffalo sauce in a small saucepan over low heat. Mix the hot sauce, ghee, honey and garlic powder until smooth and combined then set aside.
  7. Once the cooking has finished, allow the pressure to naturally release for 5 minutes, then quick release all remaining pressure.
  8. Remove the wings from the Instant Pot using tongs and place them in a large mixing bowl.
  9. Pour half of the buffalo sauce over top the chicken wings and gently toss the wings until fully coated.
  10. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper place an oven safe wire rack on top of the parchment paper. Arrange the wings on the wire rack evenly spaced. (If you don’t have an oven safe wire rack you can place the wings right on the parchment paper but they won’t get as crisp.
  11. Broil the chicken wings under high heat for 2-3 minutes per side until the skin is crisp.
  12. Once the wings are crispy remove them from the oven and brush each wing with the remaining buffalo sauce.
  13. Serve with carrot sticks, celery sticks and ranch dressing. Enjoy!

Notes

*To make this recipe whole30 compliant you can substitute 2 Tablespoons of coconut aminos for the 1 Tablespoon honey in this recipe or just omit the honey completely.

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  1. Nicky says

    March 13, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    Really surprisingly amazing wings! They looked easy and good and it turned out they were actually stupid easy and really incredible! Fall off the bone, juicy, and a nice zesty moderately spicy sauce which was not too sweet. I’ll definitely be making again regularly. My husband asked if we could invite people over for wing night and serve these. Haha

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      March 14, 2020 at 4:14 pm

      Nicky, thank you so much for sharing! That’s the best compliment! I’m so so glad you enjoyed them!

      Reply
      • Nicky says

        April 1, 2020 at 11:54 am

        Hi Nicole, yes. My pleasure. This is definitely the only wing recipe for me. I will say, that I made them again the other day and was in a bit more of a hurry and my wings were just a bit more than half defrosted. I did them for 12 minutes (cutting in half your fresh/frozen times) and they were not as tender. They were still good but not incredibly tender like to the texture of the fresh time. I’d stick to fresh next time for sure

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        • Nicole says

          April 3, 2020 at 12:41 pm

          Thank you for the feedback Nicky!

          Reply
  2. Lori says

    February 7, 2021 at 1:51 pm

    Making these now!!!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Nicole says

      February 7, 2021 at 11:24 pm

      Hi Lori, that’s great. Enjoy!

      ★★★★★

      Reply

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