This recipe for Instant Pot egg bites features gouda cheese, fire roasted red peppers and fresh spinach. The creamy, rich flavor is absolutely delicious and cooks to perfection in your Instant Pot. If you like the Starbucks sous vide eggbites, then you’re gonna love these!
Sous Vide Style Egg Bites from an Instant Pot
Since acquiring an instant Pot, i’ve been fascinated with the egg bite recipes. The “sous vide” egg bites that have become so popular at Starbucks are delicious. But can I make something as tasty without a sous vide machine. The answer is a resounding YES! In fact, these egg bites are better. I’ve had a couple of other egg bite recipes i’ve enjoyed, but after lots of experimentation, i’ve finally come up with the best. Let’s take a closer look…
Gouda Cheese is Sure to Please
Gouda is a creamy, full flavored, semi-hard yellow cheese from The Netherlands. I find it to be the perfect flavor and texture for egg bites. Just 3oz, about ¼ cup of freshly shredded gouda will do. Fire roasted red peppers are something you should keep in your pantry. They come in small jars and are wonderful in so many recipes. For this recipe, we dice up about ¼ cup full. For the spinach, I like to use a handful of fresh spinach, which comes out to about ½ cup. And here’s special step that really makes a difference… saute the diced red peppers and spinach in a little butter for about a minute in your Instant Pot. Then simply spoon the mixture into the silicone egg bite cups. I like fresh spinach SO much more than frozen, and this little extra step makes all the difference.
Silicone Egg Bites Molds
For these Instant Pot Egg Bites, I use the silicone egg bite molds
When cooking, you’ll cover the egg bite mold with aluminum foil and place it on the trivet with 1 cup of water in the Instant Pot. Then it’s 8 minutes on the “steam” setting, and 10 minutes natural release. After the minutes NPR you can release the rest of the pressure and carefully remove from pot. Remove the foil and let it set cool for 5-10 minutes. Then the egg bites will slide right out.
Egg Bites are Perfect for Breakfast on the Go
Instant Pot egg bites are excellent for a quick, protein packed breakfast on the go too. I’ll often make 2 batches on the weekends, then we have them all week to bring to work, where a quick minute in the microwave heats them perfectly. Or the kids can eat them up quickly before school instead of a donut or pop-tart they seem to love to much.
Serve on a plate with some fresh ground black pepper and fresh parsley.
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Best Damn Instant Pot Egg Bites
- Total Time: 28 mins
- Yield: 7
Ingredients
- 4 eggs, large
- 3oz gouda cheese, shredded
- ½ cup cottage cheese
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup fresh spinach
- ¼ cup fire roasted red peppers, diced
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- butter
- non-stick cooking spray
Instructions
- Chop spinach and red peppers. Add a ½ tbs of butter to Instant Pot and set to “saute”. When hot, add spinach and red peppers and saute for 1 minute. Press cancel.
- Spray silicone egg bite mold with non-stick cooking spray and spoon red pepper and spinach mixture into each cup. Set aside.
- In a blender, blend the eggs, gouda cheese, cottage cheese, heavy cream, onion powder and salt for about 30 seconds.
- Pour egg batter into each egg bite cup about ¾ full. When all are full, use a spoon to mix the batter with the spinach and red peppers a little more.
- Add 1 cup of water to Instant pot, cover egg bite mold with foil and place on trivet and lower into pot. Secure lid with seal closed and set to “steam” for 8 minutes. When cycle is complete, let naturally release for 10 minutes, then quick release the rest.
- Remove foil and let stand for 5-10 minutes to cool before removing and serving.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 18 mins
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 egg bite
- Calories: 112
- Sugar: .9g
- Sodium: 393
- Fat: 7.7g
- Saturated Fat: 4.1g
- Carbohydrates: 1.9g
- Fiber: .2g
- Protein: 8.7g
- Cholesterol: 115mg
LisaC
Hi There!
I am beyond ecstatic to try these egg bites! I have 2 questions…
1. Can I just use egg whites?
2. I just got my Instant Pot Max yesterday… it has a Sous Vide setting, would I use that? Or use a manual setting?
Thanks!
RecipeTeacher
Hi Lisa! So I’ve not specifically tried egg bits with just egg whites. But I know others have and they’ve worked out.
As for sous vide, this recipe is not cooked with the sous vide process. The popular commercial egg bites are however. With that said, I’ve been playing around with sous vide myself and am LOVING the results with various recipes I’ve been developing for it.
Liz K
LOVE this recipe, but I’m having issues when I do two trays in my instant pot- they inflate and look like little egg balloons when I first take them out after the quick release. Once they deflate they just look like egg patties. Any tips?
★★★★★
RecipeTeacher
Hi Liz. Thanks for the feedback! Do you cover the egg bite trays with foil?
Mary
Can you use eggbeater to make these egg bites?
EmKay
Make these twice a week. Put two in a ziplock sandwich bag for the husband and he takes them to work…
★★★★★
April S.
Can I do Multiple sets in the instapot by stacking the molds? So I need to add more cook time?
Terrie
Hello. I’m hosting a Mother’s Day breakfast for 13 people, so I’ll be making several batches. Do you have any suggestions on how I can keep these warm while the 2nd batch cooks?
Thanks so much.
RecipeTeacher
Hi Terrie. You can always microwave to reheat. It only takes maybe 30 seconds get them good and hot again.
Scarlet
WOW this recipe is an exact DUPE for Starbucks’ egg bites. I would know; I (used to) them ALL the time! I followed the recipe exactly, used smoked Gouda from Trader Joe’s, blended everything in my nutribullet. I never leave msgs on food blogs but this recipe needs an award. You’re a genius! Thank you so so much.
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Renee Phillips
Did you blend the peppers and spinach in the blender
with egg mixture?
RecipeTeacher
Hi Renee. No I add the peppers and spinach after the other ingredients are blended. If you blend the spinach it turns everything green and weird looking. 🙂
Karen
Just got my instant pot and your recipe looks delishious! They say you can refrigerate these for a week (if they last). How do th reheat? Or do you eat them cold? (Yuck!)!
Heather
I make these for my breakfasts for the work week. I use 2 molds and make 10 at a time, then put 2 in each small container and microwave for about 45 seconds to head up. I’ve also made more and froze them, then heated for about 75 seconds and they turn out perfect!
Gayla
Have you tried making two pans at once (on a double rack).
Joanna walker
I don’t have cottage cheese or whipping cream or half and half. Just 2% milk. Can I still make the egg bites.
RecipeTeacher
The short answer is yes, you can. But, the cottage cheese and cream are essential to the texture and basic foundation of the egg bites. Without them, the recipe will still work but you may need to experiment with times just a bit. The texture will be quite different but ok.