Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings with a rich and delicious honey bourbon sauce cook up in one pot and can be on your table in about 30 minutes. Use the Mealthy Crisplid to crisp up the wings right in the cooking pot!
Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings
We love Hot Wings in this house. It’s been a Friday night tradition here for years. Last week, we decided to try something different, something sweet and it was fantastic!
Even better is that the wings were cooked in our Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker and can be crisped up right in the cooking pot using the Mealthy Crisplid, or they can be crisped up in the oven or the Air Fryer!
Sauté Onions and Garlic and add all Ingredients
The onions and garlic get a bit of a sauté and then the rest of the ingredients are added right in the Pressure Cooker cooking pot with the wings.
Five minutes after pressure was reached, I had cooked wings, but not crispy skin, like I love. If the skin is not crispy this girl is not eating.
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Crisplid Method
Use Mealthy Crisplid to Caramelize!
The solution is to carefully remove the wings with tongs and place them in the Crisplid Basket and put it into the cooking pot on top of the included trivet. Get Crisplid here ➡️ Mealthy Crisplid.
Slather them with the thickened honey bourbon barbecue sauce.
Set the temperature to 400 degrees and the timer for 5 minutes. Watch through the glass lid and when the wings begin to caramelize and char, remove the Crisplid and turn over the wings and crisp the other side.
Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings
If cooking chicken wings in the inst, I strongly recommend using the Crisplid to crisp up the wings since you have already dirtied the cooking pot.
Second choice is the air fryer.
Air Fryer Method
Place Wings into Air Fryer
Using Silicone Coated Tongs, carefully place the wings into the Air Fryer. I adore this Air Fryer because you don’t have to preheat it and your wings will crisp on both sides evenly!
Not all Air Fryer are created equal. My picks are the Cosori Air Fryer, which is very reasonable priced and the Phillips Air Fryer, which is about $100 more. Some of the other Air Fryers I have tried, did not impress me, as they required preheating and lots of shaking and flipping of the food.
Crisp up the Wings in the Air Fryer
While the wings are crisping in the Air Fryer, have the sauce thickening in the Pressure Cooker . When the sauce becomes thick, dunk the wings into the sauce and then placed them back into the Air Fryer.
The sauce will caramelize on the wings nicely. Look at the gorgeous color! If you like this recipe, you might want to try my Asian Sticky Chicken Wings or my Buffalo Hot Wings.
Oven Method
Place a Reusable Silicone Baking Mat onto your Cookie Sheet. Place the Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings on the Cookie Sheet sheet in a single level. Crisp them up a bit, while you are tending to your Sauce in the Pressure Cooker.
Brush on Bourbon Barbecue Sauce
While the wings are crisping up in the oven, thicken the sauce in the Pressure Cooker . When the sauce becomes thick, Brush some sauce on the wings and placed them back under the broiler or Mealthy CrispLid, for about 5 minutes on each side.
Pressure Cooker Bourbon Chicken Wings, Legs, Thighs
The sauce will caramelize on the wings nicely. Add as much Sauce as you like. If you like this recipe, you might want to try my Asian Sticky Chicken Wings, Honey Garlic Chicken Wings, or my Buffalo Hot Wings.
Crisplid/Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings
Wowza, delicious Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings from start to finish in 30 minutes. The hubs was happy. Another incredible wing recipe to try is my Air Fryer Crispy Honey Garlic Chicken Wings.
The Crisplid and Air Fryer gets them super crunchy and crispy because of my secret ingredient and method.
Kitchen Equipment and Esentials
- Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Pressure Cooker
- Cosori Air Fryer
- Rosle Stainless Steel Flat Whisk
- Cilio Olivewood Spatula
- J.A. Henckels Classic 7-inch Hollow Edge Santoku Knife
- 1/2 Cookie Sheet
- Reusable Silicone Baking Mat
- OXO Stainless Steel Tongs
- Silicone BBQ Brush
- Mealthy Crisplid – broils, air fries and melts right in the cooking pot!
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Here is the printable recipe:
Ingredients
- 4-5 pounds Chicken Wing Pieces
- 3/4 cup Ketchup
- 1 Tablespoon Liquid Smoke
- 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 1/4 cup Yellow/Brown Onion finely minced
- 2 cloves Fresh Garlic finely crushed
- 1/2 cup Fresh Water
- 1/4 cup Bourbon
- 2 teaspoons Paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
- 3 Tablespoons Clover Honey
- 1 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
Instructions
- Push the Sauté or Browning button on your Pressure Cooker.
- Add ketchup, liquid smoke, brown sugar, onion and garlic to your Pressure Cooker cooking pot.
- Stir until sauce starts to thicken, about five minutes.
- Turn Pressure Cooker off.
- Add the water and the rest of the ingredients. Carefully add the wings and mix into the sauce.
- Lock on the lid and Close the Pressure Valve. Cook on High Pressure for 5 minutes.
- When Beep sounds, do a Quick Release.
- With Tongs, carefully remove Wings to Air Fryer Basket or a Cookie Sheet, lined with foil or silicone mat.
- Turn the Pressure Cooker to Sauté or Browning and allow sauce to thicken while the wings are crisping in the Air Fryer or Oven.
Air Fryer Method
- Place basket of wings into air fryer and set temperature to 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 6 minutes.
- When Beep is heard, remove the basket from the air fryer and dunk wings into the thickened sauce.
- Return the wings to the Air Fryer and set temperature to 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 6 minutes.
- Place any extra sauce into a bowl and use for dipping.
Oven Method
- Turn the oven on to broil and place a rack in the middle of the oven.
- Place wings in the oven and broil for five minutes on each side.
- Remove wings from the oven and slather on the Honey Bourbon BBQ sauce.
- Place the wings back into the oven and broil for five minutes on each side,
- Place any extra sauce into a bowl and use for dipping.
Using Mealthy Crisplid
- After sauce is thickened, unplug Instant Pot and place chicken wings into Crisplid basket. Remove sauce to a bowl.
- Place tall trivet into cooking pot and place basket of wings on top.
- Slather wings with sauce.
- Place Crisplid on top of pressure cooker and plug in. Set temperature to 400 degrees and set time for 5 minutes.
- Watch through the clear glass lid and when wings are to your liking, remove lid, flip wings and crisp up next side.
Notes
PIN this Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings (or Thighs or Legs)!
Pressure Cooker Honey Bourbon Chicken Wings (or Thighs or Legs)
