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Instant Pot Egg Bites

December 13, 2018 by Sandy 19 Comments

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Instant Pot Egg Bites are soft, pillowy, delicious eggy puffs. Inspired by Starbucks® Sous Vide Egg Bites, these tasty breakfast pressure cooker egg bites are pressure cooked in a fun silicone mold to get the perfect size and shape! This is the best InstaPot Egg Bites recipe! Change up the filling to make your favorite customized flavors!

Several Egg Bites on a black plate next to a wooden fork

 

Instant Pot Egg Bites

Sometimes during the week, it isn't easy to get a good breakfast. These Copycat Starbucks® Sous Vide Egg Bites made in the Instant Pot are a great solution.

When you need to grab something easy and quick for breakfast, having some cooked egg bites in the fridge is so helpful. Just heat them up and enjoy a quick breakfast with lots of protein and delicious flavor.

You can reheat them quickly, about 25 seconds in the microwave, and they are great with a piece of toast and some fruit.

uncooked Egg Bites in a blue pressure cooker mold
Fill up your egg bites mold about halfway. Then add bacon or other add-ins. Then top off with more egg mixture to the top of the mold and add more bacon.

Cooked Egg Bites in a blue silicon mold
When the Instant Pot Egg Bites are done cooking, they will be puffed up, often times pretty high. Don't worry, they will settle back down in just a few minutes as they cool off enough to eat.

Egg Bites Texture

  • When I first started making Instant Pot Egg Bites they came out with a grainy texture, and I didn't care for them.
  • I tested several versions, and one thing I realized was that the use of ricotta cheese, and bagged cheddar cheese were the reasons they had an unappealing texture.
  • Once I switched to freshly grated Gruyére cheese, and swapped out cottage cheese for the ricotta, they took on a completely different texture. So much smoother and no grain!

Some Flavor Variations for Pressure Cooker Egg Bites

  • Mushroom, Swiss, Sausage.
  • Sun Dried Tomato, Feta Cheese, Red Bell Pepper
  • Spinach, Tomato, Italian Seasoning.
  • Sausage, in place of Bacon.

Egg Bites Garnish?

I like to garnish egg bites with hot sauce, sour cream, salsa, or if not in the mood for any of that, I just eat them plain. They are so good any way!

Top view of several Egg Bites on a black plate

Serving Size for Egg Bites?

A serving size is one Egg Bite, however, for me it is 2 or 3 Egg Bites. If I'm having toast I will only eat 2 of them.

Egg Bites Storage

Keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Reheat in the microwave for about 25 seconds.

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Egg Bites Mold

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Several Egg Bites on a black plate next to a wooden fork
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Instant Pot Egg Bites
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
8 mins
Natural Pressure Release / Resting
12 mins
Total Time
35 mins
 

Instant Pot Egg Bites are soft, pillowy, delicious egg puffs. It all started with Starbucks® Sous Vide Egg Bites, and those have inspired these tasty breakfast pressure cooker egg bites! 

Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: pressure cooker Egg Bites
Servings: 7 Egg Bites (1 per serving)
Calories: 118 kcal
Author: Sandy Clifton
Ingredients
  • 4 Eggs
  • ½ cup Cottage Cheese
  • ¼ cup Heavy Cream
  • ⅔ cup Gruyére Cheese, shredded (or emmental, jarlsberg, beaufort, or comté cheese)
  • ⅛ teaspoon Pepper
  • 2 Tablespoons Chives, minced
  • 3 slices Cooked Thick Sliced Bacon, chopped (or ½ cup Cooked Crumbled Sausage)
Optional Add-Ins*
  • 1 teaspoon Hot Sauce
  • ½ cup Broccoli (cooked, chopped small)
  • ½ cup Tomatoes, deseeded, diced
  • ½ cup Roasted Red Bell Peppers, diced
  • ½ cup Mushrooms, diced
Tools You'll Need
  • Cooking Spray
  • Egg Bites Silicone Mold
  • 1 cup Water
  • Instant Pot® Pressure Cooker
  • Trivet/Rack w/long handles, for the mold to sit on
  • Blender, or Immersion Blender
  • Foil
Instructions
  1. Spray the silicone egg bites mold with the cooking spray. Set aside.

  2. Add the eggs, cottage cheese, heavy cream, Gruyére cheese, pepper, and chives to the blender and blend for 2 minutes on medium speed, or until the mixture is light and fully incorporated.

  3. Fill the silicone egg bites mold openings halfway with the egg mixture. Then add ¾ of the the chopped bacon or other add-ins and gently press them in. Continue filling with the egg mixture, and top with remaining bacon, and press it in.

  4. Pour 1 cup of water into the inner stainless liner of the pot. Then set the full egg bites mold on the trivet and very carefully set it in the pot. Loosely cover with foil.

  5. Close the lid of the pot and set the steam release knob to the Sealing position.

  6. Press the Pressure Cook or Manual button (or dial) then press the +/- button (or dial) to select 8 minutes. High pressure. The pot will take a few minutes to come to pressure.

  7. When the cook cycle is finished, let the pot sit undisturbed for 8 minutes (8 minute Natural Release). Then open the steam release valve to Quick Release the remaining pressure until the pin in the lid drops down.

  8. Open the lid and remove the foil. Use silicone mitts to grasp the trivet handles and carefully remove the egg bites mold. Set aside to rest for about 4 minutes. They may be puffed up quite a bit, but they will go back down. They will come out of the mold easier if they cool a little.

  9. Serve warm as is, or with any garnish you like. I like hot sauce and a bit of sour cream.

Recipe Notes
This post contains Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

 

*If you like lots of add-ins in one batch, you may have too much mixture for one mold to hold it all. Use a second mold, or make another batch with 1 mold.

Link to buy a Silicone Egg Bites Mold with Rack

 

One batch yields 7 Instant Pot Egg Bites.

 

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  1. Kathy

    October 21, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    I'm a newbie IP user but thanks to Facebook's Instant Pot 101 for beginners I'm getting brave and using my pot several times a week. I received my Amazon order of 2 egg bit molds today and your banana bread recipe calls for 3. How many molds do you recommend having? I plan to make pancake bites this coming weekend. Can you put 3 in the IP at the same time?

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    • Sandy

      October 26, 2019 at 10:56 pm

      Hi Kathy. You can only put in two in at a time, so it's easy to pop them out to cool and load up the third one and cook it. Two mold is enough I think.

      Reply
  2. Charlotte

    August 18, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    Couldn't find it but is this high or low preassure? Thanks!

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    • Sandy

      August 19, 2019 at 9:48 am

      High

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