Cooking hard boiled eggs is easy when you use your electric pressure cooker. Instant Pot hard boiled eggs take just a minute to start then you don't have to worry about turning off the stove at the right time or making sure you're timing them. Cook them at high pressure for a few minutes and they're done!
POSSIBLE VARIATIONS
Whether you're cooking hard-boiled eggs for easter or just because you love them, here are our favorite additional methods for cooking the perfect hard boiled eggs. Scroll to the bottom for our instructions for the perfect hard boiled eggs in an Instant Pot.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS
If you don't want to eat plain hard boiled eggs, consider any of these delicious options.
- Cobb Salad – Fill a salad bowl with chopped up romaine lettuce. Add bacon crumbles, sliced hard-boiled eggs, crumbled blue cheese (or your favorite cheese), avocado, tomatoes and any other toppings you like. Toss with your favorite dressing.
- Deviled Eggs – Try these skinny deviled eggs.
- Egg Salad Sandwiches – See how amazing this sandwich is on a croissant!
STORAGE TIPS
Refrigerate: You can store hard boiled eggs in a refrigerator (fridge) for up to 7 days. Once they're removed from the refrigerator, they should be eaten within 2 hours.
Freeze: It is not recommended to freeze hard boiled eggs.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 6 eggs - large
Instructions
Place a rack in the bottom of your instant pot. Place eggs in a single layer on rack. Put as many or few eggs as you would like just make sure they're not touching and are not stacked on top of each other.
Add cold water to the bottom of the instant pot. Water should come up to the bottom of the rack but does not need to touch the eggs.- Put lid on Instant Pot and seal. Turn the release valve to closed.
- Set timer on Instant Pot to 4 minutes.
- When Instant Pot is done, allow it to naturally release for 4 minutes.
Remove eggs from the Instant Pot with a slotted spoon. Put eggs into a bowl full of ice water immediately. This will help stop the eggs from continuing to cook and will make them easier to peel.
Refrigerate or serve immediately.
Notes
- Do not leave hard boiled eggs out at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Hard boiled eggs can be refrigerated for up to 7 days.
- For soft boiled eggs, cook for 3 minutes and allow a 4 minute natural release.
- Your Instant Pot might yield slightly different results based on size and model, remember to write down any recipe time adjustments you'd make so you remember next year!
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Cara says
So easy, and a total no-fail recipe. The eggs came out perfectly!
Jill says
I never get tired of hard boiled eggs. So glad to have all these methods in one place. I had no idea I could make them in my Crock Pot too. Thanks!
Tayler Ross says
This is the absolute best way to make boiled eggs! I'll never make them another way!
Allyssa says
Super loved it! Thanks a lot for this amazing and super easy to make beef barley recipe! It's really tasty and very flavorful! Will surely have this again!
Catherine says
I would never have thought of using the instant pot to make hard boiled eggs! So nice not having to wait for the water to boil and stand over the stove.