Pressure cooker chicken wings are one of my favorite Instant Pot appetizers to make so I’m really happy to share this recipe with you 🙂
My Pressure Cooker Chicken wings sauce is made from a combination of ingredients including hot sauce, vinegar, spicy brown mustard, garlic and Worcestershire Sauce and some other spices and it’s finger lickin’ good!
My wings sauce is similar to Buffalo Wings (so I’m calling it ‘Buffalo Style’ ) but it’s not the authentic Buffalo wings sauce, however, it’s very tasty and my whole family loved it!
The chicken wings are served with a delicious homemade Blue Cheese Dip on the side, it’s is a classic pairing with Wings and you can throw in a few celery sticks if you want too!
How to Make Pressure Cooker Chicken Wings
There are three parts to this recipe but I promise it’s really easy and is a perfect recipe for those who are brand new Instant pot users and more experience pressure cooker people.
I’ll include a couple of quick tips here and you’ll find the full recipe with all the ingredients and cook times and so on at the end of my post. {This post contains affiliate links
- The first thing we need to do is make up the blue cheese dip, it’s simply a matter of mixing the blue cheese crumbles, sour cream, mayonnaise, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, garlic and salt and pepper and mixing it well together. I think it tastes best if you can let the flavors develop while it sits in the fridge for a couple of hours.
- Next, you need to make the sauce for the wings. Again this is super easy and all you need to do is add the hot sauce, vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, butter and seasonings and cook in a pan for a few minutes over a medium heat until the sauce is smooth.
- Cooking the pressure cooker chicken wings is really easy, you simply add a cup of water and put the wings into the pressure cooker in a steamer basket, put the lid on and cook for 5 minutes at high pressure and then let the pressure release naturally.
- When the wings have cooked the last thing you need to do is simply put them on a rack over a sheet pan and generously brush on the sauce and give them a few minutes under the broiler until they get nice and sticky and then turn the wings over and apply more sauce and repeat as before.
Can I get Crispy Chicken Wings in the Instant Pot?
I see a lot of people asking this questions in various forums and the short answer is no, you can’t get crispy chicken wings in the Instant Pot, in fact you can’t make crispy anything in the Instant Pot.
When you cook chicken wings or other meat under pressure you are cooking it with steam rather than in a dry heat environment like your oven or grill, so it’s not possible to get crispy skin.
You can, however, put the chicken wings under the broiler after it’s been pressure cooked like I’ve done in this recipe and that will help the sauce get good and sticky but it still doesn’t really make them crispy.
This is not a problem for me and I love the convenience of cooking them in the pressure cooker so I think as long as your expectations are realistic about the end result, you’ll be totally happy with Instant Pot Chicken Wings!
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Pressure Cooker Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dip
My Pressure Cooker Chicken Wings with Buffalo Style Sauce are perfect for your next party and are served with a delicious blue cheese dip that will wow your friends!
Ingredients
- 3 pounds chicken wings , tips removed, wings separated at joints
- 3/4 cup water
BLUE CHEESE DIP
- 4 ounces crumbled blue cheese
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- Salt and pepper
CHICKEN WINGS SAUCE
- 1/4 cup hot sauce
- 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup ketchup
Instructions
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Mix blue cheese in a bowl with the mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, lemon juice, garlic powder, salt and pepper an stir to combine. Cover and chill for 2 hours.
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Combine all the chicken wings sauce ingredients into a small pan, stir and cook for a few minutes until smooth.
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Add a steamer basket into your pressure cooker along with 1 cup of water, and add the chicken wings on top of it.
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Lock the lid, turn the steam release vent to 'sealing' and using the 'manual' or 'pressure cook' button, adjust it to cook the wings for 5 minutes.
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When the cook time time is up, allow the unit to reduce pressure on its own without opening the steam release vent (Natural Release) for 5 minutes, then release the remaining pressure and open the lid
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Remove the chicken wings and place them on a rack over a sheet pan then turn on your broiler.
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Liberally brush the chicken wings with the sauce and broil for 3-4 minutes and then turn them over add more sauce and repeat as desired.
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Serve the chicken wings hot with the blue cheese dip on the side.
Recipe Notes
adapted from My Recipes
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