Instant Pot Baked Chicken with Vegetables is a recipe you can easily prepare for a big party. I like to host friends a lot in our home, but here in Madrid, we don’t have the luxury of having househelp. For this reason, I’m always looking for recipes that I can cook easily in the Instant Pot and oven in big batches for parties. Instant Pot Baked Chicken is that kind of recipe! The children love it!
Spice Rub 
Chicken on the trivet in Instant Pot 
Chicken in Instant Pot
If you notice, most of my recipes are always a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables, because when I cook for my family, I like to prepare food with a balanced nutrition profile.
Broiled Chicken 
Roux for Gravy 
Mixed Vegetables
This baked chicken with vegetables is so easy to cook in the Instant Pot. The Instant Pot is a game changer in the kitchen, so if you still don’t have it and you are a working mom, you need to buy it now.
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Since I don’t have an air fryer, I like to broil the chicken in a wire rack on a baking pan so that the hot air can circulate and the bottom part of the chicken is not soggy. This copper rack is similar to mine.
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The Instant Pot makes the chicken soft and juicy, while broiling the chicken gives it a nice brown color. The juices from the chicken that accumulate in the Instant Pot is also used to make some flavorful gravy. Pair it with oven-baked vegetables and you have a complete meal!
Instant Pot Baked Chicken Legs with Vegetables
Equipment
- 1 Instant Pot
Ingredients
Chicken
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2 lbs chicken legs
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 pc chicken cube
Gravy
- 2 tbsp butter
- 4 tbsp flour
- juice from chicken in Instant Pot
- salt, pepper, and water, to taste
Vegetables
- 4 pcs mushrooms sliced
- 1 pc medium onion sliced
- 3 pcs baby potatoes diced
- 1 pc medium carrot diced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Chicken
- Mix the paprika, pepper, salt, and garlic powder together. Rub all over the chicken.
- Add 1 cup water and 1/2 pc chicken cube in the inner lid of the Instant Pot. Place a trivet inside the Instant Pot.
- Put the chicken legs on the trivet in the Instant Pot. Put the lid on the Instant Pot to close it. Make sure the valve is in the sealed position.
- Pressure cook on high for 10 minutes. Once the Instant Pot 10-minute pressure cook time is up, let the pressure naturally release for at least 10 minutes.
- While you are allowing the Instant Pot to naturally release pressure, preheat the oven at 250 Celsius, fan on, broiler (heat at the top only).
- After the 10-minutes natural release, quick release the rest of the remaining pressure. Open the Instant Pot.
- Place the chicken on the wire rack.
- Broil the chicken in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes until the chicken becomes golden brown.
Gravy
- While the chicken is broiling, remove the trivet from the Instant Pot.
- Pour the chicken juice from the Instant Pot into another container. Place back the inner lid in the Instant Pot.
- Put the Instant Pot on saute and add the butter until its melted.
- Once the butter is melted, add the flour to make the roux.
- When the roux turns light yellow brown, add the chicken juice to make the gravy.
- Saute for 10 minutes until you reach the desired consistency.
- Add salt, pepper, and more water, depending on your taste profile.
Vegetables
- While the chicken is in the Instant Pot, microwave the chopped potatoes and carrots, seasoned with salt, pepper and olive oil, for 5 minutes.
- Mix the potatoes and carrots with sliced onions and mushrooms in an oven-proof dish. Add salt, pepper, and olive oil to the sliced onions and mushrooms.
- Once the chicken is done with the Instant Pot and the chicken is broiling in the oven, place the vegetables at the bottom part of the oven.
- Remove both the chicken and the vegetables at the same time.
- Plate and serve.
