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Instant Pot Egg Salad is one of the greatest kitchen hacks I think I’ve encountered — delicious and flavorful egg salad with chives, mayo, mustard, and celery salt, and it DOESN’T require you to peel eggs!
Okay, I know I’ve professed my love of the Instant Pot to you guys before. I just love it. I really, really do. And every time I come across a new IP recipe or throw together one on my own, like Instant Pot Quinoa , Instant Pot Honey Sesame Chicken, and Instant Pot Broccoli and Cheese Soup, I become even more impressed and in awe of this legitimate miracle machine. Instant Pot Egg Salad is no different.
And in fact, it about made my jaw hit the floor as I marveled at the realization that I no longer have to peel boiled eggs to make egg salad! HOORAY! For an egg salad lover like myself, the bane of my existence previously was having to stink up my kitchen hard-boiling eggs in a pot of water, and then standing over a bowl trying to expertly remove pesky shells from the white ovals.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe:
- NO peeling egg shells!
- Ingredients you probably already have
- So easy to make
- Delicious!
Ingredients:
- Eggs
- Water
- Mayonaise – or miracle whip if you prefer
- Chives
- Yellow mustard
- Ground pepper- to taste
- Celery Salt- to taste
See recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities
Frequently Asked Questions:
Egg salad can last for up to 5 days refrigerated in an airtight container. If you’ve left it out (say at a picnic or a barbecue), for more than two hours, you might want to toss it. Bacteria grows quickly on dairy left at room temperature or higher temps.
There are tons of variations in egg salad recipes, but this one is pretty standard. It has eggs, mayo, chives, yellow mustard, celery salt, and ground pepper. You could also incorporate chopped celery, red onion, pickled jalapenos, or roasted red pepper to shake things up.
This depends on how hungry you are and what you’re serving the egg salad with! I would say anywhere between a half cup, to a cup spooned onto a halved croissant is just about perfect.
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Instant Pot Egg Salad (no boiled eggs to peel!)
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups water
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 2 tablespoons minced chives
- 1 teaspoon yellow mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon celery salt, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper, or to taste
Instructions
- Add the water to the bowl of your Instant Pot.
- Spray a springform pan with cooking spray, and place on a trivet inside the bowl of your Instant Pot.
- Crack 6 eggs into the pan. It is okay with they don’t stay whole.
- Place the lid on the Instant Pot, and move the valve to sealing.
- Pressure cook on high for 5 minutes, with a 2-minute natural pressure release.
- After 2 minutes, do a quick release.
- Carefully remove the pan from the Instant Pot, and let the eggs cool.
- Once cooled, coarsely chop the eggs.
- In a medium bowl, mix together eggs, mayo, chives, mustard, celery salt, and pepper.
- Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Serve on croissants.
Notes
- How great is this hack?! NO BOILED EGGS TO PEEL. Sign me up!
Could this be done in the oven?
I don’t see why it wouldn’t work!
Made this today! Absolutely brilliant. Love egg salad but really disliked the idea of having the pain of peeling them. Will never go back to the old way. Keep posting recipes like this. I’m a total fan,
Game changer isn’t it!!
You mean I don’t have to fight the peel off of farm fresh eggs anymore? You have saved the day! There is nothing more frustrating than picking micro sized pieces of shells off, one tiny piece at a time along with part of the egg white attached! Thanks!!!!!
I don’t peel them. Open the egg up and empty the shells like you would when eating a boiled egg. Then chop them up. Less work and dishes.
what a joke hahaha
as if its a chore to peel 6 eggs hahahah wow
Yes, we can all handle peeling eggs. But why choose to do more work when you can do less?