Pressure Cooked Hard Boiled Eggs

Do you ever cook hard boiled eggs then when you go to peel it, the darn shell sticks to the eggs and you end up having like craters in your eggs! That ain't gonna work definitely when you need the egg looking all pretty for presentation purposes. So I read up on how to cook eggs in the pressure cooker, as scary as that sounded, I decided to give it a try. What's the worst that can happen (eggs blowing up!)?

To get the eggs to cook evenly, you would normally have to submerge the eggs in water. But with my Philips electric pressure cooker, you don't need to submerge them. In the pot of your pressure cooker, put a cloth on the bottom and put a steaming rack on top of the cloth. Then add about a cup of water. Arrange the eggs on top of the rack and close the lid. Set the knob to Seal and press the steam button, and set the keep pressure time to 6 minutes. Once it has finished cooking, you can let the pressure cooker release the pressure automatically. If you were doing this for a soft boiled egg, you would want to release the pressure manually so as not to over cook the eggs.

Once the floating valve has dropped, you can safely open the lid. Submerge the eggs in some cold water. This will help stop cooking the eggs as well as make it easier to handle. 

Once they're cool enough to handle, peel away!

I cooked about 25 eggs here and each and every one peeled off perfectly.

Here's a bit of tip, if you need the egg yolks to cook perfectly in the middle of the egg then you'll need to stand the eggs upright in the pressure cooker. You can use some old metal lids from bottles. But in my case for this instance, I was cooking the eggs for devilled eggs and I wanted to cook a whole bunch all at once, so there would have been no way I could have fitted that many eggs in the pot had I stood them up. But in not doing so, you can see in the picture that the egg yolks are on the sides of the eggs, so presentation wise not the best.

So this is what I made with all those eggs! Spider Devilled Eggs! Spiders were made by cutting pitted black olives and arranging them to look like spiders. Spooky? :)

Pressure Cooked Corn and Spam Rice

This is a really easy one pot dish that's popular with kids...unless of course your kids don't like corn or spam. But if they don't then you can substitute it with green peas and chopped ham or bacon. Sure you can cook this in a rice cooker, but it's so much faster in the pressure cooker.

First wash your rice as your normally would and add it to the pressure cooker pot and fill up with the right amount of water for your amount of rice. If you're using fresh corn off a cob, use a knife to cut off the kernels and add them to the pot with the rice. You can also use frozen corn. Now, get your can of spam and cut it into cubes and add it all to the pot. Add some salt and pepper and close the lid and turn the valve to Seal. For Philips Pressure Cooker, set it to the Rice mode and press start and that's it!

Once the cooker has finished keeping pressure, you can either manually release the pressure or wait for the pressure to be released automatically. I am usually very impatient, so will usually release the pressure manually with a long cooking spatula, and I will release it little by little, not in one shot.

After all the pressure is released, stir the rice, and if you want, you can add a dollop of butter to make it more rich, and taste to adjust the seasonings. You can take this recipe further and turn it into a baked rice. Spoon the rice into heat proof ramekins and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. A white sauce underneath the cheese is optional. Bake it in a hot oven until the cheese melts or you can place it under the grill/broiler to brown. If you have a Philips Air Fryer, you can also cook it in there.

If you don't like corn, feel free to substitute with any other vegetables such as frozen peas, capsicums, broccoli, etc.

Hope you try this recipe and let me know how it goes. Enjoy!