Instant Pot Boiled Eggs

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Learn how to make PERFECT boiled eggs every time using your Instant Pot. If you haven’t made boiled eggs in your Instant Pot® electric pressure cooker, you’re really missing out!

The Instant Pot not only cooks boiled eggs quickly, but it does so perfectly and without a boiled over mess! That’s a double win in my book! ?

I use my Instant Pot to boil eggs all the time. I not only like to eat boiled eggs with a little bit of salt and pepper, but I also use them in all sorts of dishes: salads, potato salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, egg salad – you get the idea!

Actually, that’s making me hungry for chicken salad. Do you ever make chicken salad and eat it over a bed of lettuce? Oh, it’s perfectly yummy!

Making boiled eggs in your electric pressure cooker takes about 15 minutes. That’s about 5 minutes to build up pressure, 5 minutes of cook time and 5 minutes to let off steam. Perfectly cooked boiled eggs – without the mess – in 15 minutes!

Supplies Needed

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Before you make Instant Pot boiled eggs, there’s just a few supplies you’ll need:

• Instant Pot
• Steamer Basket or Steamer Rack
• Measuring Cup
• Bowl
• Cold Water

I actually have this steamer basket, but I’m not crazy about it because it’s a little difficult to remove without burning yourself. What I’d really recommend is a steamer basket like this one with a handle.

Instant Pot Boiled Eggs Recipe

This has got to be one of the simplest recipes – right up there with how to boil water! Seriously.

1. Pour 1 cup of water into your pot.
2. Insert rack or steamer basket into pot.
3. Place eggs in the steamer basket or on top of the rack in the pot.
   
4. Close the lid, set cook time for 5 minutes at high pressure. (It will take about 5 minutes to build up pressure and then cook at high pressure for 5 minutes.)
   
5. Let the pressure naturally release for 5 minutes, then do a quick release and carefully remove the lid.
6. Immerse eggs in cold water.

Use this Instant Pot Boiled Eggs recipe and you’ll have perfectly cooked boiled eggs for all your Easter egg needs! I know so many people use plastic eggs, but there’s just something special about decorating hard boiled eggs, don’t you think?

In fact, I recently read an article in Country Living magazine that featured 60+ Easter egg decorating ideas. And you’ll find even more Easter egg ideas on Home Stories A to Z. Of course, Pinterest is just bursting with Easter ideas!

The important thing about decorating Easter eggs is making sure you have perfectly cooked boiled eggs. Now that you know how to do that in the Instant Pot, you’re ready to decorate!

More Instant Pot Recipes

If you enjoyed this Boiled Eggs Recipe for the Instant Pot, then you might also like these recipe ideas from The Birch Cottage:

• Vanilla Infused Honey {an Instant Pot Recipe}
• Instant Pot Dulce de Leche Recipe
• Keto Cheesecake for the Instant Pot

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