Instant Pot Smoked Paprika & Garlic Chicken Legs

This fast and fabulous Instant Pot Smoked Paprika & Garlic Chicken Legs recipe will liven up your dinner menu and take no time to do it. From a fun new Instant Pot cookbook full of great, easy paleo recipes!

I seem to have less and less time right now to cook but thanks to my Instant Pot and a fun new cookbook that’s not a problem: The ‘I Love My Instant Pot’ Paleo Recipe Book by Michelle Fagone.

I reviewed Michelle’s first cookbook (The ‘I Love My Instant Pot’ Recipe Book) earlier this year and shared a delicious Instant Pot Chili Lime Chicken recipe.

Today’s Instant Pot Smoked Paprika & Garlic Chicken Leg recipe from the new cookbook is another easy peasy, fast-and-fabulous recipe.

This cookbook would make a great Christmas gift for someone with an Instant Pot or one getting one for Christmas!

Jump to:

• What Is Paleo?
• Smoked Paprika vs regular Paprika
• Mind-Blowing Instant Pot Tips You Need!
• More Instant Pot Recipes You’ll Love
• Recipe

What Is Paleo?

Before diving into the cookbook, let’s talk ‘Paleo’.

It’s an eating regime of whole foods; meats, fish, vegetables, some fruits, nuts. It’s a grain and dairy-free eating approach that has been adopted by those wishing to reduce the chances of developing certain chronic diseases or desiring a grain-free diet.

It’s a whole food way of eating that avoids processed foods. For those gluten-free, the Paleo diet is also gluten-free (though not all foods that are gluten-free are paleo).

I think of Paleo food as they way my parents generation ate before the onset of processed foods. And frankly with the recipes in this cookbook, you can make whole ingredient recipes in a flash; processed food won’t be missed.

‘I Love My Instant Pot’ Paleo Recipe Book

The ‘I Love My Instant Pot’ Paleo Recipe Book covers breakfast to dessert with all courses in between.

I pored over all the recipes searching for the perfect thing to share at this busy time of year and found so many things I want to make: Quick Lime Marmalade (to eat on Black Pepper Scones), Homemade Chai Latte (to save weekly purchasing of them), Bison Sloppy Joes (though I’d probably put them on gluten-free buns), Tom Kha Goong (my favorite Thai soup especially when I have a cold).

As one would expect with the speed and ease of Instant Pot cooking, the recipes are simple, straight forward and easy to follow. There are no fussy cooking techniques and recipes that will keep your breakfast, lunch and dinner table hopping with effortless interesting food.

There is an easy primer in the beginning of the book on using your Instant Pot, as well as accessories the author suggests.

I found the format easier to absorb than the Instant Pot manual. I also love that there is a list in the back of the book of ‘Paleo ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Foods’ to help if one is following a paleo regime. You’ll love the recipes whether you are eating Paleo or not.

From the first thumbing through this cookbook these Instant Pot Smoked Paprika & Garlic Chicken Legs jumped off the page.

Smoked Paprika is one of my favorite spices with a deep, earthy flavor and gorgeous burnt red color.

Despite having only 4 ingredients this recipes is flavor-full and with a quick broil at the end the chicken legs are perfectly seared with juicy meat and crispy skin.

Ready in less than 30 minutes with little active cooking time.

Smoked Paprika vs regular Paprika

This recipe uses Smoked Paprika which taste very different than regular paprika. It has a deep earthy flavor.

For spicy food lovers you can swap it with HOT Smoked Paprika with will add some heat to the flavor. 

Whichever version you use be sure to read the label to ensure you are getting the type you want!

More Instant Pot Recipes You’ll Love

• Instant Pot Meatloaf: Fast Easy Comfort Food
• Creamy Mushroom Instant Pot Pot Roast
• Chocolate Cherry Instant Pot Cheesecake
• Creme Brulee in the Instant Pot
• Instant Pot Short Ribs with Southwestern Harvest Succotash
• Vegetable Beef Soup in the Instant Pot
• Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats
• Instant Pot Turkey Breast
• Southwestern Instant Pot Chili

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