Easy Instant Pot Chicken Drumsticks

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We have to admit it; Chicken drumsticks are a perfect dish to make during the lunch or the dinner. Most of you have this wrong idea: it’s a big and difficult job to cook chicken drumsticks.

If you share the same opinion then I have to understand this: It’s not hard anymore to cook chicken drumstick.

In today’s article we are going to make cooking chicken drumsticks straightforward for you. It takes just about 15 to 30 minutes to be cooked with an Instant Pot.

But, before we start let’s see some important things: There are some important basics that you must know before we go ahead with this chicken drumsticks recipe.

Chicken drumsticks belong to South-American Cuisine. It’s very easy to make and it’s served for both: lunch and dinner. We use pressure cooking method to make these delicious chicken drumsticks.

Let’s start making these delicious chicken drumsticks. Are you ready?

What Ingredients are Required to Cook chicken drumsticks?

We need this list of 10 ingredients:

• 6-10 pieces of chicken leg pieces
• ¼ cup of sweet paprika
• 4 ½ teaspoons of black pepper (freshly grounded)
• 1 full tablespoon of salt
• 1 ½ teaspoons of celery salt
• 1 ½ teaspoons of cayenne pepper
• 1 ½ teaspoons of garlic powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons of dry mustard
• 1 ½ of dry mustard
• 1 ½ of ground cumin

Get all these ingredients on the table and let’s see how to make these delicious chicken drumsticks.

How to Cook Chicken Drumsticks in an Instant Pot?

Now, you just need 15-30 to cook these delicious chicken drumsticks in an Instant Pot. You also need about 5 minutes for dressing and preparing it. 

These delicious and easy chicken drumsticks are very tasty and nutritious, and are also very useful when you have visitors, family, friends or even colleagues. So just follow instructions specified below to prepare lip-smacking chicken drumsticks for yourself and your dear ones.

1. Put about a ¾ cup of water in the Instant Pot and add the trivet inside it.
2. Carefully place every piece of the chicken legs over the trivet.
3. Once all the chicken pieces have been placed, tightly close the lid of the pot and also don’t forget to close the vent.
4. Press the Poultry button on the Instant Pot and depending on the number of pieces you have cooked set the time somewhere between 20-25 minutes.
5. Switch on the oven and preheat the oven to broil. Once it is preheated, place a cookie sheet with parchment paper inside it.
6. Once the timer goes off, release the pressure out of the pot naturally by opening the lid of the machine.
7. Take the drumsticks out of it one piece at a time.
8. Now apply BBQ coats over the drumsticks evenly on all sides.
9. Put the chicken drumsticks over the lined up cookie sheet. Set the drumsticks to broil in the oven for 2 minutes on each side or until the skin of the chicken pieces turns brown. However, ensure that you do not burn the pieces.
10. Your chicken drumsticks are now ready to be served. You could also grill some vegetables along with it or make a sauce to add to the taste.

That’s it, you can now enjoy it. Please don’t forget to share this recipe with your foodie friends.