Pressure Cooker Potato Salad

Pressure Cooker Potato Salad is so simple to make because you can cook the eggs and the potatoes at the same time which means it’s cooked in about ten minutes!


This is my own recipe for Bacon and Egg potato salad that I’ve been making for years, but I’ve now adapted it to work as a pressure cooker potato salad so that I could make it in my Instant Pot instead of on the stove in two separate pans.

On the stove the potatoes and eggs have a different cook times, but we can make it all in one in the pressure cooker!

Tips for Making Instant Pot Potato Salad

• • • My top tip is to choose a waxy potato for your pressure cooker potato salad. Waxy potatoes hold their shape better and tend not to fall apart in the same way that a more fluffy potato like russets do. We used small waxy baby potatoes for this recipe.
    • It’s important that you cut your potatoes relatively small  so that they will cook along with the eggs. I used baby potatoes and cut them in quarters.
    • To get the best crispy bacon cook it on a rack over a sheet pan in your oven at 375 until it’s fully crispy, it will cook more evenly than in a pan on the stove and will get good and crispy as the bacon is not sitting in the grease. It will take 20 minutes or more to get fully crispy.
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  Kitchen Tools to Make Pressure Cooker Potato Salad

  Pressure Cooker – You’ll need a pressure cooker to make this recipe, there are many brands that will work well but we are big fans of Instant Pot!

  Steamer Basket – A steamer basket is top of my list of ‘must have’ accessories for your Instant Pot, this is my full list of Top Instant Pot accessories 

  Sheet Pan – I like the Nordic Ware brand, they’ve held up really well for me.

  Sheet Pan Rack –  I don’t know why I waited years to get a rack for my sheet pans but I LOVE it! It makes cooking a pan of crispy bacon a breeze!

  

  More Pressure Cooker Recipes

  My pressure Cooker Potato Salad with Bacon and Egg would be a perfect side dish to go with my Pressure Cooker Ribs with Memphis Style rub you’ll love them both! Here are a couple more of my easy pressure cooker recipes you won’t want to miss:
  Pressure Cooker Collard Greens
  Pressure Cooker Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dip
  Best Ever Instant Pot Chili
  Pressure Cooker Cincinnati Chili

  
  

  Pressure Cooker Potato Salad with Bacon and Eggs

  Pressure Cooker Potato Salad with Bacon and Eggs is the perfect side for lunch, dinner, picnics, pot lucks, you name it! 

  Prep Time: 10 minutes

  Cook Time: 4 minutes

  Total Time: 14 minutes

  Total Carbs: 20 g

  Protein: 5 g

  Servings: 6

  

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  Ingredients

  • 1.5 lbs baby potatoes , 680g
  • 4 slices bacon , cooked crispy, and broken into pieces
  • 3 eggs peeled and sliced , peeled and sliced
  • 3/4 cup mayonnaise , or half mayo, half sour cream 240mls
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1.5 tbsp gluten free dill pickles , chopped
  • 2 green onions , chopped

  Instructions

  1. Cut the baby potatoes into quarters.

  2. Add 1 cup of water to the pressure cooker then add the potatoes into a steamer basket and place the eggs on top of the potatoes. If you don't have a steamer basket just put the potatoes on top of the water. 

  3. Lock the lid, turn the steam release vent to 'sealing' and using the 'manual' or 'pressure cook' button, adjust it to cook for 4 minutes.
     

  4. When the cook time time is up carefully open the steam release vent right away (quick release) and then remove the lid.
     

  5. Place the eggs into a bowl of iced water and remove the potatoes from the pot and allow them to cool in the fridge.

  6. Cut your peeled hard cooked eggs into smallish pieces and add to the bowl with the potatoes.

  7. mix the mayonnaise with the salt, pepper, mustard, garlic powder, and dill pickles.

  8. Add the mayonnaise mixture to the potatoes and egg and fold in together along with the chopped bacon. Serve chilled and garnish with green onions.

  Nutrition Facts

  Pressure Cooker Potato Salad with Bacon and Eggs

  Amount Per Serving

  Calories 317 Calories from Fat 207

  % Daily Value*

  Fat 23g35%

  Saturated Fat 4g25%

  Cholesterol 94mg31%

  Sodium 448mg19%

  Potassium 518mg15%

  Carbohydrates 20g7%

  Fiber 2g8%

  Sugar 1g1%

  Protein 5g10%

  Vitamin A 175IU4%

  Vitamin C 23.1mg28%

  Calcium 31mg3%

  Iron 1.4mg8%

  * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

  Nutritional information on Noshtastic is provided as a courtesy and is approximate only. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the nutritional information given for any recipe on this site.

  Course: Side Dish

  Cuisine: American