Pressure Cooker Baked Potatoes

Easy, Fast, Perfect and Soft all the way through. I’ve been amazed at pressure cooker baked potatoes and I bet you will too! This recipe works equally well in a pressure cooker or Instant Pot

How to Cook Potatoes in a Pressure Cooker

It’s so easy and takes only minutes, for real! I wouldn’t kid you about this. You can cook one, a few or MANY! That’s the best part!

My daughter, Ashley taught me how to cook potatoes with her Instant Pot and then I tried it with my pressure cooker and it works equally well!

I’ll give you instructions for both and you’ll love the results!

Try How to Make Instant Mashed Potatoes Better too!

Easy, Fast, Perfect and Soft all the way through!

Here’s What You’ll Need

(PLUS SOME WATER!!!)

• Baking Potatoes (We like russets or large red potatoes) – It’s easier to crisp up the skins of the russets if you prefer to do that step at the end.
• Pressure Cooker or Instant Pot – Either one works equally well. It’s like MAGIC! I’ll never make baked potatoes in the oven or the microwave again!
• Fork or knife – you MUST poke holes in the potatoes to avoid a potato explosion of armageddon proportions.
• Water – it’s what makes the pressure cooking work.
• Kosher Salt, Oil and an Oven – if you want to crisp the skins at the end.

Here’s How You Do It

1. Wash the potatoes
2. Poke holes in the potatoes (good deep holes)
3. Place potatoes in the pressure cooker or instant pot (use a rack if you have one).
4. Add 1- 1.5 cups of water
5. Cook on high pressure according to the chart below.

PRO TIP – If you using russets or baking potatoes and you like crisp skins, when the potatoes are done in the pressure cooker, coat with oil, sprinkle with kosher salt and then bake in a 450 oven for 15 minutes. This gives you crispy steak house style potato skin!

Potato Pressure Cooking Time Chart

A single layer of potatoes in cooker …………………….5 minutes, natural release

Double layer of potatoes in cooker……………………..15 minutes, natural release.

Triple layer of potatoes in cooker ………………………25 minutes, natural release.

Tips and Tricks

• Wash your potatoes well before starting to remove all dirt. There’s nothing worse than the crunch of a piece of sand when enjoying your potato.
• Understand that the skins are soft and delicate after pressure cooking and to maintain an unmarred appearance, you’ll have to be very gentle removing them from the cooker.
• Remove the potatoes from the cooker and allow to drain for a few minutes, especially if you are not going to crisp the skins after pressure cooking.
• If you are cooking 1 to 2 layers of potatoes, 1 cup of water will do. If cooking more, use 1.5 cups.
• Do not overfill your pressure cooker.
• If you have super giant potatoes (6″ or longer), please understand that it may take longer to pressure cook these as it takes a while for the heat to reach the middle of the giant potato.
• We love potatoes cooked this way when we do smoked ribeyes on the smoker. Whooowee! Delicious!

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