Want to make perfect hard boiled eggs? Look no further than your Instant Pot! One of the reasons Alex and I love boiling eggs in an Instant Pot is that it is totally hands off. You don’t have to wait for water to boil or worry about overcooking. Simply pop the eggs in the Instant Pot and cook for 7 minutes! The entire process takes about 20 minutes and couldn’t be simpler. Even better: boiling eggs in an Instant Pot makes for easy peel hard boiled eggs. (Really!) Keep reading for how to do it. Don’t have an Instant Pot? Try our Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs or Steamed Hard Boiled Eggs.
What’s an Instant Pot?
An Instant Pot is an electric pressure cooker that’s used to cook food at extremely high pressure. This means quicker cook times, versus a slow cooker that cooks long and slow. There are many brands of electric pressure cookers, including Instant Pot, which is a brand name. We use the Instant Pot brand: here’s the 6-quart Instant Pot we use at home. What’s the Instant Pot good for? For years Alex and I were Instant Pot skeptics, especially since we thought it was just for cooking meat. Since then, we’ve realized there are so many healthy Instant Pot recipes that include both vegetarian and vegan options! There are so many basics you can make: like sweet potatoes, chickpeas, acorn squash, lentils, and even apple crisp! Then there are the soups and stews, like Instant Pot chili and lentil soup. And of course, these Instant Pot hard boiled eggs.
How to make Instant Pot hard boiled eggs
How long does it take to boil eggs in an Instant Pot? Place the eggs in the pressure cooker and cook at high pressure for 9 minutes. Then drop them into an ice bath to cool them until they’re ready to peel. Remember that with the Instant Pot, you must factor in a “preheat time” where the Instant Pot comes up to pressure. The “preheat” time for this recipe is 7 minutes, so the total cooking time is around 16 minutes. This recipe uses the “Quick Release” method, meaning that after the 9 minute cook time, they’re ready to go! Just take out the eggs, place them in an ice bath for 5 minutes, and you’re ready to peel.
Easy peel hard boiled eggs
The most interesting thing Alex and I found as we experimented with this Instant Pot hard boiled eggs recipe is that it makes easy peel hard boiled eggs! This is not something we were expecting, but it was an added bonus to boiling eggs in an Instant Pot. How to peel hard boiled eggs? For this recipe you can gently tap the bottom of the egg until the shell crushes, then remove the shell in pieces. We used to gently roll the egg long-wise to crush the shell all around, but this can sometimes cause the white of the egg to break. For this Instant Pot hard boiled eggs recipe, the eggs are so easy to peel that you only need to tap one end to get it started. From there, you’re ready to get cooking: whether it’s our Easy Deviled Eggs made with a swirl of Greek yogurt, or our classic Egg Salad Sandwich.
Looking for more hard boiled egg recipes?
Once you make Instant pot hard boiled eggs, there are so many thing to do with them! Pressure cooker hard boiled eggs can be used in these recipes, from us at A Couple Cooks and around the web:
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This Instant Pot hard boiled eggs recipe is vegetarian and gluten free.
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