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Instant Pot Turkey Drumsticks and Stuffing

This is a great comfort food meal that is great when cooler temperatures and fall starts.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 2 people
Calories 1276 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Tablespoons Butter
  • 1 medium Onion fine chopped
  • 2 stalks Celery fine chopped
  • 1 Tablespoons Poultry Seasoning Adjust up or down to taste.
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Ground Pepper
  • 3 cups Bread cubed fresh or dried
  • 1½ - 2 cup Turkey or Chicken Broth
  • 2 Fresh Turkey Drumsticks or thighs

Instructions
 

  • In a large 10 inch or more frying pan melt butter.
  • Add onion, celery, poultry seasoning, salt, and pepper and saute until onion is translucent.
  • Add cubed bread and half the broth. Incorporate the ingredients. Note: Use less or more of the broth but the final stuffing before cooking should be just slightly moist. You can use the remaining broth in the bottom of the pot and just add enough water to make 1 cups called for in the recipe.
  • Transfer the prepared stuffing to a bowl that will fit inside the instant pot liner on top of the trivet. This is where you decide to either cover the dressing with foil or leave it uncovered while cooking. If this is the first time you are making this recipe you may want to go ahead and cover the dressing with foil. If the dressing is too dry after cooking you can spoon some of the broth in the bottom of the pot to get it to the desired consistency.
  • In the Instant Pot liner with the trivet in the bottom Add water or remaining broth to bring it up to 1 cup of water.
  • Place the bowl of prepared stuffing on the trivet and make sure there is plenty of space around the bowl to allow steam to rise.
  • Next place the turkey legs on top making sure that they are inside the Instant Pot liner. Season the drumsticks with some salt, pepper and poultry seasoning.
  • Place the Instant pot liner with the drumsticks and stuffing in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. Plug in the unit. (Off will show in the display)
  • Place the lid on the Instant Pot pressure cooker and rotate the lid to the closed postion.
  • Move the pressure valve to the Sealing postion.
  • Select Poultry on the Instant Pot control panel and adjust the time to 60 minutes cook time. As long as you don't touch another setting the Instant Pot will begin the cooking process after 10 seconds.
  • You will know when the Instant Pot cooking has completed when it beeps and goes to a warm cycle. The display will show and L with the time it has been in a warming state.
  • Once the cooking cycle is complete you can release the steam by moving the Steam Release to the Venting postion or you can let the Instant Pot release the steam naturally. (Important: do not attempt to remove the lid until the float valve has dropped indicating that the pressure has dropped to a safe level)
  • Once the steam has escaped you can remove the lid and you will have turkey drumsticks and stuffing hot and ready for dinner.
  • Notes: Based on feedback, there have been some suggestions from others. To prevent excess moisture getting into the dressing, cover the stuffing pot. It can be difficult is you are using drumsticks but turkey thighs works much easier or even a partial turkey breast.

Notes

[recipe]This same recipe can be used in a crockpot but since you are not needing to build to pressure you don't need an inner bowl for the stuffing.
My only suggestion would be to spray the crockpot liner with a cooking spray to make cleanup easier and then put the drumsticks in the crockpot with the stuffing on top.
Put the lid on the crockpot and cook for at least 6 hours on low.