Hard Boiled Eggs (easy to peel)

Prep time:  10 mins

Cook time:  5 mins

Total time:  15 mins

Ingredients

• Eggs (as many as you like to fill the bottom of the pot rack)

• 1 cup water

• Instant Pot electric pressure cooker

Pour the water into the pot, and place the eggs in a steamer basket if you have one. If you don’t, just use the rack that came with your pot.

Close the lid, set for 5 minutes at high pressure.

It will take the cooker approximately 5 minutes to build to pressure and then 5 minutes to cook. I let the pressure naturally reduce for an additional 5 minutes after the cooking cycle completed, and then did a quick pressure release. That’s around 15 minutes, total.

Place the hot eggs into cool water to halt the cooking process. You can peel immediately, or wait– it’s up to you. 

INSTANT POT EGG NOTES:

• You can play with the cooking time a bit, if you like. Try adding an additional minute or so if you want your eggs very, very firm. I’ve tried 7 minutes, with no quick pressure release, which worked fine, but left me with eggs with a green-rimmed yolk (a result of over-cooking). Five minutes results in a perfectly cooked, yet still yellow, yolk for me.

• If you don’t want to do a quick pressure release, that’s totally fine. You can just leave the eggs in there until the pressure cooker cools down natural