Recipe: Egg Bites with a Pressure Cooker

Last week I caved and bought myself a plug-in pressure cooker.  It was intimidating at first but then I had a breakthrough: I found a way to recreate these tasty little egg bites that I found at a certain high-end coffee chain.  Super fun and easy!   There are recipes around that replicate this process in the oven, too.

Pressure Cooker Egg Bites

You need a silicone insert for the cooker and foil

Ingredients:

4 large eggs

1/4 c heavy cream

3/4 c Monterey jack cheese blend

3/4 c gruyere cheese, grated

1/2 c cottage cheese

pre-cooked bacon slices

1 c water

Directions:

Put everything (except bacon) in blender and blend.  Add salt if desired (but the cottage cheese and cheese give pretty good saltiness)

Place third of a slice of bacon in bottom of each cup

Pour the egg mixture about halfway up each silicone cup

(you will repeat this process twice)

Put a little piece of bacon on top

Pour a cup of water into cooker pot

Carefully put silicone container into cooker.  Loosely lay foil on top (do not cover tightly)

Make sure it’s on “seal” and select steam for 8 minutes (high pressure)

(The whole pressuring process and cooking will take about 15 minutes)

Allow to depressurize naturally for 10 minutes.

Release last bit of steam and open.

Pop out of cups and repeat process one more time

They are delicious and light.  Enjoy!