First, add your 1 cup of water and your rack or trivet into your Instant Pot.
Next, generously rub your Tony Chachere’s Seasoning (or seasoning of choice) and McCormick BBQ Seasoning all over your chicken drumsticks. We get our chicken already seasoned with Cajun Tradition Red Rub seasoning from our grocer. We seasoned ours with Cajun Tradition Red Rub, Tony Chachere's, and McCormick BBQ Seasoning. You can just use your seasoning of choice plus the McCormick BBQ Seasoning and it would be just as good.
Then place your drumsticks standing up in your Instant Pot.
Close the lid and turn the steam release valve to the “sealing” position.
Then press the “Pressure Cook” button. Next, press the “Pressure Level” button until you have selected “High Pressure”.
Turn the timer onfor 24 minutes if you have 3 lbs. of Chicken Drumsticks. Once the pressure builds up, the timer will start counting down.
Then, once the timer has completed do a quick release of pressure. **Warning – The steam is very hot, use a towel to turn the release valve so it does not burn you.
Next lightly spray one side of your drum sticks with the avocado oil spray.
Now you can either place your drumsticks on a pan under the broiler in your oven on high for a few minutes to make the skin crisp or, you can use your Instant Pot air fryer lid. If you have an air fryer lid proceed to step #10. For those who are using the broiler on their oven for this step place your chicken drumsticks on a pan. Spray them with avacodo oil on one side and place your rack close to the top. Broil for 5 minutes then flip them and spray the other side with avacodo oil. Broil that side for another 5-10 minutes depending on how crispy you like them.
Spray your chicken drumsticks with your cooking spray. We used avocado cooking spray for this recipe. You want a cooking spray that is safe for high heat cooking to use with your Instant Pot Air Fryer.
Place your Instant Pot Air Fryer lid on top of your Instant Pot turn heat to 400 degrees for 5 minutes.
Once the 5-minute timer is done open your air fryer lid and place it on the air fryer lid protective pad. Turn your chicken drumsticks over so that you can spray the other side with your cooking spray.
Close the Instant Pot Air Fryer lid again and set it to 400 degrees for 10 minutes. We like our chicken crispy. You could do this last round for 5 minutes instead,but we like our skin to be very crispy.
That’s it! You can now serve you Easy Instant Pot BBQ Chicken Drumsticks. Enjoy!