Description
This recipe delivers perfectly cooked baked potatoes using an Instant Pot, offering a quick and easy alternative to traditional oven baking. The potatoes come out tender, fluffy, and ready to be topped with your favorite ingredients.
Ingredients
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Ingredients
- 5 medium size baking potatoes
- 1 cup cold water
Instructions
- Prepare Potatoes: Scrub the potatoes under warm running water until clean. Pierce each potato several times with a fork or knife to allow steam to escape during cooking.
- Set Instant Pot: Pour 1 cup of cold water into the inner liner of the Instant Pot. Place the trivet inside the pot.
- Arrange Potatoes: Place the potatoes on the trivet inside the Instant Pot, ensuring that they do not touch the water.
- Seal and Cook: Close the lid on the Instant Pot, ensuring the vent is in the sealed position. Set to cook on high pressure for 13 minutes.
- Natural Pressure Release: Allow the Instant Pot to naturally release pressure for 10 minutes after cooking, then carefully release any remaining pressure manually.
- Serve: Open the lid carefully; the potatoes will be hot. Cut open and serve with your favorite toppings such as butter, chives, sour cream, or cheese.
Notes
- Use medium-sized baking potatoes for even cooking.
- Do not let potatoes touch the water to prevent sogginess.
- Be careful when releasing pressure to avoid burns.
- This method significantly reduces baking time compared to traditional oven methods.
- Add toppings of your choice to customize your baked potatoes.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 13 minutes
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Instant Pot
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: instant pot baked potatoes, easy baked potatoes, pressure cooker potatoes, quick baked potatoes
