Hard Boiled Eggs from the Instant Pot

Hard Boiled Eggs from the Instant Pot
Using Duck Eggs!
By Cheryl L. McClure

When we began our journey with chicken keeping and duck keeping, I had no idea about eating duck eggs. I thought this would be an eye opener for those who, like me, just didn't know! Yes, you can eat duck eggs and they are great for baking and frying and even hard boiled!! They are a bird just like chickens and so why not? Some may find the taste a little richer in flavor and the texture not much different, but to us, they really enhance the baked goods we use them in.

Small duck egg on left, double yolk duck egg on the right, chicken egg on top.

One of our hens is laying double yolk eggs (you go girl!) and the ducklings we hatched earlier this year have grown up and started laying small eggs. Hopefully they will get bigger as they get older! The brown egg is a nice sized chicken egg to show for comparison.

What better way to use the small duck eggs than to make hard-boiled eggs in the instant pot!

Normally when I cook hard-boiled chicken eggs in the instant pot, I use the 5-5-5 method. Put several in a basket, add a cup of water, set the pressure to manual for five minutes, then natural pressure release for five minutes, then five minutes in an ice bath. Works perfect every time.

Knowing that I want to have hard-boiled eggs in bulk to chop up and add to my chicken salad or regular salad I wanted to try it this way. All my duck eggs in this batch are a little smaller than chicken eggs. The beauty of this process: no peeling eggshells!! Woo hoo!

I’ve seen this done before in other recipes for the instant pot. You might want to check out Texas Homesteader and see how she cooks her chicken eggs. She has some other great recipes too.

Instructions:

• Crack 8 small eggs into a buttered 7 inch silicone pie pan (with lid) and place on trivet over 1 cup of water. Put the lid on! (I got my baskets and silicone pie pan at QVC. They fit perfectly.)
  
• Set to manual pressure for 5 minutes.
• Natural pressure release for 10 minutes.

But Oops! I forgot and left them in for 38 minutes!!!!!!!! Lol!

No worries! They came out fine! I was able to chop them up and use half of them in our chicken salad and store the other half in the fridge to add to our garden salad. What a great sandwich!

I like to add chopped celery, pickle relish, grapes, craisins and sometimes pecans to my chicken salad. Adding essential oils to your recipe is also an option as there is a whole culinary set to access at essenty.com/cherylintexas and one tiny drop goes a long way!

Enjoy your hard boiled eggs!!

Cheryl @ Pickle Creek Ranch

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PS: You don't have to have a drake for a (duck) hen to lay eggs. But the good thing about chicken and duck keeping is we can grow our flock any time, with the help of the boys.

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