Instant Pot Breakfast Casserole

This Instant Pot breakfast casserole recipe is perfect for the weekend or holidays! Packed with eggs, sausage, potatoes and cheese it may become your favorite Ninja foodi pressure cooker breakfast. Here’s how to make thhis quiche style dish.

Instant Pot Dump Breakfast

We are a family who loves breakfast, and can easily have it for dinner a few times each month. I also love a good egg casserole recipe. Throw all the things we love in, let it cook, and enjoy them all together any time of day.

Doesn’t need to be an IP either though, there are several other brands out there that work. As long as it is electric, and not the old fashioned type you can make this. We use a springform pan but that will be discussed too.

I have made a crockpot breakfast casserole for years so this year I thought I’d make it in my pressure cooker.

Packing it full is what love, we made this last weekend. It is sort of like a crustless quiche if you want to call it that. But without the crust so you only get the good inside parts you crave. It’s packed with a whole lot more than just cheese egg and ham or spinach. For reference, I have a 6 quart pot.

I made it three ways, one in the pot itself (but it does stick to the bottom for this method), the style you see here that’s like a crustless quiche, and one using a bundt pan which is similar to a breakfast bundt cake.

Instant Pot Breakfast Casserole with Potatoes

You could add 1/4 cup of defrosted hashbrowns into the mix if you wanted that too. Or substitute that instead of meat if you want a vegetarian style dish.

For the first (pot in pot) PIP method you see here in the round pan you will need to use a springform cake pan, this is the one I use. Essentially it is steamed and comes out as a “pie” you can slice. This is what it looks like using the first PIP method.

The directions are very similar but vary a bit. I used a little less in this pan and increased the time because it is thick. Of course if you like your eggs really done and drier I might add a minute or two. But this is how our 2nd Instant Pot breakfast casserole version turned out after 15 minutes.

• You can omit the bacon bits too or add them in either one, totally up to you. I didn’t add cheese to the one above because my husband can’t have dairy so I used almond milk as an alternative and didn’t add cheese, that is pretty yummy too (even for me who eats dairy).

Just keep in mind that adding a lot more ingredients may mean adding a minute or two on to the cooking time. Everyone prefers their eggs a little drier or more on the wet side so the first time you make this you can adjust according to your preference. 15 minutes is perfect for this below using pre cooked bacon bits and no cheese. If you add sausage I add 1 more minute.

Ninja Foodi Breakfast Casserole

If using this brand you will use the lid that is not attached and the pressure cook button. The rest of the instructions remain the same as far as that goes.

If you’re new to the pressure cooking world we will help get yourself familiar with our step by step directions below. The SECOND method is a PIP egg casserole as well but is more of an omelette using this bundt pan, 

Ingredients

1. 8 eggs
2. 1/2 c. breakfast sausage spicy Jimmy Dean is the best or bacon bits
3. Shredded cheese
4. Bell pepper
5. Diced onion
6. Milk
7. 1/4 tsp. garlic salt
8. Pinch salt and pepper
9. cup of water for bottom of the pan
10. bowl to whisk egg mixture

The first time I made this it didn’t come out smoothly because my pan had lost a lot of the “non stickiness”. So make sure you have a good Teflon pan or spray it really well. I mean it is fabulous no matter what but if you really want it pretty that’s my tip…..

How to Make Breakfast in Pressure Cooker

• Scramble eggs in a bowl
• Spray inside of bundt pan really WELL
• Add all other ingredients and fold together
• Pour omelette mixture into bundt pan
• Cover with foil
• Put trivet and 1 1/2 c. water into your pressure cooker
• Make a sling out of foil
• Lower bundt pan on to trivet
• Set to pressure high for 12 minutes 
• Allow to naturally release the steam 
• Cool
• Carefully loosen sides off pan
• Put plate on top and carefully flip over to keep shape in tact

How to Cook Eggs in Instant Pot

1. Here is a breakfast bundt cake made in your Instant Pot! Made with refrigerated biscuits, eggs, ham (or bacon) and seasonings it is perfect for brunch or even dinner.
2. For a Instant Pot breakfast bundt cake. Use this pressure cooker breakfast bundt cake post for instructions to make this one.
3. Here is the recipe for these pressure cooker egg bites as you see here

Our Instant Pot egg bites are similar to Starbucks egg bites but would definitely classify them in the breakfast casserole category because they’re stuffed with cheese, vegetables, and bits of meat too if you like.

Breakfast Casserole Ingredients

1. Trivet – I like one with handles
2. A springform pan
3. Eggs
4. Hash browns (I used frozen and defrosted what I needed for this)
5. Bell pepper (I used half a red and half a green, up to you)
6. Green onions
7. Bacon bits
8. Salt and pepper to taste
9. Milk
10. Cheese – We like a lot. I have also made a dairy free version without cheese since my husband can’t have it. It’s good too. I just add cheese to mine and microwave a little to melt.

Other Instant Pot breakfast recipes you’ll love

• Instant Pot pancake bites are so good with blueberries inside
  • Can be made into gluten free bites
  • Our pressure cooker banana bread is incredible too
• Love these Instant Pot blueberry muffins
• Moist Instant Pot coffee cake