Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs

The instant pot hard boiled eggs 5 5 5 method is seriously the easiest way to make pressure cooker eggs! Once you learn how to do it, you'll have it memorized for good. They're a Whole Lotta Yum!

Why You'll Love 555 Instant Pot Eggs!

Having hard boiled eggs around the house is such a versatile weekly meal prep item. Whether you want to use them in a sandwich, salad, as a snack, for breakfast, or for devilled eggs, they have a ton of uses.

We are huge egg eaters in our household and eat them almost every day in some shape or form. It's not uncommon for us to easily go through 2-3 dozen eggs each week.

While we've tested numerous strategies with our pressure cooker, we keep coming back to the Instant Pot hard boiled eggs 5 5 5 recipe.

• Using your pressure cooker to make eggs causes the shells to literally fall off in a way the stovetop method simply cannot do. No more hard to remove eggshell.
• The yolks turn out super creamy and have a better texture than other methods, plus they'll be bright yellow and not tinged with green
• Eggs make the perfect recipe for weekly meal prep

Love eggs? I think you'll also like our bacon egg cups, instant pot egg drop soup, and our crustless broccoli ham quiche.

What you'll need

You can add as few or many eggs as will fit in your pressure cooker.. Whether you add 6 eggs or 12 eggs, the eggs should turn out the same. 

The steamer basket that comes with your Instant Pot works perfectly fine, but if you plan to cook a dozen or so eggs at a time regularly, you might consider a stackable egg steaming rack.

• 6 large eggs (up to 12 eggs works well) 
• 1 cup cold water

Equipment

• A Pressure Cooker - This is the Instant Pot model that we used. 
• Trivet

How to Make Instant Pot Eggs

1. Add 1 cup of cold water to the bottom of your slow cooker. Insert Instant Pot steamer basket.
2. Carefully place the desired number of eggs on the steamer basket, making sure to keep them spread-out and not touching.
3. Put the lid on your pressure cooker and make sure it's locked down.
4. Select the Pressure Cook setting (some models call this Manual) and cook the eggs for 5 minutes.
5. Once the Instant Pot timer goes off, you'll do a Natural Release of the pressure before pressing the valve to release the remaining pressure in the pot.
6. Remove the lid and carefully remove the eggs with tongs, kitchen tongs with silicone tips work perfectly for this.
7. Make an ice bath to stop the eggs from cooking. Add water and a handful of ice cubes to a medium-sized bowl. Add the eggs, making sure they're completely covered with water, and let them cool down for 5 minutes before peeling. So easy!

More Instant Pot Recipes

• Pressure cooker chicken noodle soup
• Instant Pot Spinach Artichoke Dip
• Teriyaki Chicken Bowl Recipe
• Instant pot cabbage and bacon

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