Instant Pot 5252247 Official Mesh Steamer Baskets, Set of 2, Stainless Steel

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Steaming is the best approach to cooking them in the Instant Pot as it is a more gentle cooking method. For reference, a friend of mine tested this recipe with her stovetop pressure cooker and her verdict was that 4-minute eggs were fine, but tasted slightly overcooked. This way, you will always have freshly steamed vegetables and don’t need to worry about reheating them. Use your steam function to quickly pressure cook vegetables and seafood, which can be raw or frozen. Consult your healthcare provider if you intend to change your diet and always ensure that each of the ingredients is allowed in your diet.

Though regionally influenced primarily by coastal, traditional southern, cajun, and creole styles and flavors, the chefs at Marrow have a solid background in all types of cuisine with over 75 years of combined cooking experience.In cases where multiple ingredient alternatives are given, the first listed is calculated for nutrition. It takes about 5 minutes for the cooker to come up to high pressure, 5 minutes to cook the eggs, and then 5 minutes of natural pressure release before removing the eggs from the cooker—hence the "5-5-5" method. This is a convenient way to steam food, as you can check it during cooking, but it will not cook as quickly as if you steamed it using one of the pressure functions.

At 4 minutes, the whites are firm but soft and the yolk is cooked through but still creamy; at 5 minutes, I felt like the whites started to become rubbery and the yolk was a little chalky. Potatoes: Potatoes can be hard to cook in the instant pot because (like fish) they tend to fall apart if overcooked. In this case, 96% of readers who voted found the article helpful, earning it our reader-approved status.Check your pressure cooker manual for the minimum requirement of liquid in the pot, and add at least that amount. Reheating: Steamed vegetables can be reheated, but keep in mind that reheating vegetables also cooks them further, so make sure not to overheat them. Steaming is a great way to cook food quickly and evenly, making it a perfect method for cooking in the Instant Pot.

You set your timer to zero minutes and the instant pot steams the veggie mix in the time it takes to come to pressure. Steaming with an Instant Pot is super easy, and you have a couple options for cooking a delicious meal. You can also peel the egg in a bowl of water, which helps create space between the shell and the egg as you go.

After cooking is done, let the pressure cooker sit for 5 minutes with the lid on and the steam vent "sealed" to allow steam to begin releasing naturally. You can cook as many eggs as you like at one time, but be careful of wedging eggs too firmly against one another or stacking eggs on top of each other since these can cause eggs to crack.

Not to mention increasing the humidity in your kitchen or even getting a blast of steam in your face. This healthy instant pot recipe is great for meal prep because it is a great side dish that goes with many different dishes. Like many of you, I abandoned the dream of finding one surefire method for making consistently perfect hard boiled eggs some time ago.Check your manual if you are not sure what that is for your Instant Pot, and make sure you don’t use less than that amount. If you don’t have a trivet, you can use rolled-up balls of tin foil inside the Instant Pot inner bowl to rest a smaller plate or bowl on (try to make it as level as possible).