Recipe: Delicious Instant pot egg bites

Instant pot egg bites.

You can cook Instant pot egg bites using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Instant pot egg bites

1. You need 4 of eggs.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Cottage Cheese.
3. Prepare 1/4 cup of Heavy Cream.
4. It's 2/3 cup of shredded cheese - I used aged cheddar but recipe calls for Gruyére Cheese, shredded (or emmental, jarlsberg, beaufort, or comté cheese).
5. You need 1/8 tsp of Pepper.
6. Prepare 2 Tbsp of Chives or green onion minced (if you have a good blender then just cut up).
7. It's 3 slices of Cooked Thick Sliced Bacon, chopped (or 1/2 cup Cooked Crumbled Sausage).
8. Prepare 1 cup of water.
9. It's of Optional Add-Ins: • corn, 1 tsp Hot Sauce • 1/2 cup Broccoli (cooked, chopped small) • 1/2 cup Tomatoes, deseeded, diced • 1/2 cup Roasted Red Bell Peppers, diced • 1/2 cup Mushrooms, diced.
10. You need of Tools needed for instant pot:.
11. It's of Cooking Spray Egg Bites Silicone Mold.
12. It's of Instant Pot® Pressure Cooker.
13. It's of Trivet/Rack w/long handles, for the mold to sit on.
14. Prepare of Blender.
15. It's of And Foil.

Instant pot egg bites step by step

1. Spray the silicone egg bites mold with the cooking spray. Then Set aside..
2. Add the eggs, cottage cheese, heavy cream, (use whatever cheese you love) Gruyére cheese, pepper, and chives to the blender and blend for 2 minutes on medium speed, or blend well or until the mixture is light and fully. Be careful not to blend dark ingredients with you egg mixture. The result could look nasty but taste delicious..
3. Next fill the egg bite mold openings halfway with the egg mixture. Then add 3/4 of the chopped bacon or other add-ins you decided on (I used mushrooms and corn) 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. 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..
10. Recipe Notes *If you like lots of add-ins in one batch, you may have too much mixture for one mold to hold it all. Maybe consider getting a second mold, or make another batch. One batch yields 7 Instant Pot Egg Bites.
11. Calories: 118 kcal per egg bite.