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.
Ok so yes I am obsessed with my new fancy pressure cooker! Do you have one yet?? I’ve made tons of meals but thought I’d try something for Christmas morning breakfast this year since the holidays were rolling around and this Instant Pot breakfast casserole did the trick! There are even more under 30 minute casserole Instant Pot recipe ideas on The Typical Mom so enjoy. 😉 (affiliate links present)
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.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
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
- 8 eggs
- 1/2 c. breakfast sausage spicy Jimmy Dean is the best or bacon bits
- Shredded cheese
- Bell pepper
- Diced onion
- Milk
- 1/4 tsp. garlic salt
- Pinch salt and pepper
- cup of water for bottom of the pan
- 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
- 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.
- For a Instant Pot breakfast bundt cake. Use this pressure cooker breakfast bundt cake post for instructions to make this one.
- 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
- Trivet – I like one with handles
- A springform pan
- Eggs
- Hash browns (I used frozen and defrosted what I needed for this)
- Bell pepper (I used half a red and half a green, up to you)
- Green onions
- Bacon bits
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Milk
- 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
Instant Pot Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 6 oz sausage, (precooked) or 2 tbsp. bacon bits
- 1/2 c cheese, shredded, mix of cheddar and jack is good
- 2 tbsp onion, diced, or dried minced onion
- 1/4 c bell pepper, diced
- 1/3 c green onions, diced
- 1 c hashbrowns, defrosted
- 6 eggs
- 1/3 c milk
- salt and pepper, to taste (I add after)
Instructions
- Spray the inside of your springform pan with non stick spray to avoid sticking.
- Defrost your hash browns and set aside. If using sausage cook inside Instant Pot on saute or on stove top until pink is gone, set aside.
- In a bowl whisk your eggs, milk, and a pinch of salt and pepper together.
- Fold in your hash browns and other chunkier ingredients leaving 1/4 c. cheese on the side to sprinkle on top when it is done.
- Pour your egg casserole mixture into your springform pan and cover with foil.
- Add 2 c. water into the inside of your Instant Pot and put a trivet in the middle.
- Lower your springform pan on to the trivet and close the lid.
- Set to manual, pressure, high, for 16 minutes.
- Do a slow release (move valve to the side slightly to let steam come out slowly).
- Lift pan out of Instant Pot and remove foil.
- Allow to cool at least 5 minutes before gently flipping over on to a plate, cutting, and serving to ensure it maintains it’s shape.
- Sprinkle more cheese on top and enjoy.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Does it matter if I use a glass dish or a metal pan for the the PIP?
I also got the overheat error. I will make this again but will buy a springform pan for it. Subbed turkey breakfast sausage and it had great flavor. I ended up finishing in a skilley because I got the error 3 times but will try again with a springform.
I’ve been wondering if I could mold heavy foil around a bowl that fits in my pot, and use the foil to cook in?
Are you using 6 oz of sausage or 16 oz? You have it both ways. Also how much is in a serving? The nutritional facts doesn’t show this in any of your recipes.
My spring pan doesn’t fit in my pot. I’ll have to try the recipe with no pot.
It looks great! Having for dinner tonight!
I use my springform pan for a lot of recipes, I’d recommend getting one that fits. 7″ fits in my 6 qt.
Made this this morning. Delicious but I cooked for 16 min, still raw did another 10 and then another 5 . And was done. I put foil in the springform pan as it leaked so not sure if that had a difference.
Thanks and happy New year
Your springform pan if locked on the side should not leak at all so yes that was the issue.
I made mine in the pot and added more time, but it came out great! I also used leftover ham for the meat and mostly egg whites.
Awesome!!
You could do what I call skillet scramble..cook bacon/sausage& pepeppers onions on sauté in the pot.. remove pot drain grease,wipe the lip of the pot ,replace it and bark eggs on top of sausage & peppers then stir to scramble them in the pot,,when they’re dry enough add your cheeese, put the lid on till residual heat melts it ..only one pot to clean and less grease on the stove.
Joe, how long do you cook it in the instant pot?
Why did you leave the sausage out of the PIP recipe?
Because I would need to precook it before adding and I’d rather skip that step so I added real bacon bits already cooked inside instead.
Just a thought….When in a hurry I love using the Jimmy Dean’s sausage crumbles or the meat lovers which is bacon and sausage. Makes it so easy. I think it is a 12 oz package.
Hello, tried the recipe and followed exactly. Would not work for me.
Any idea why? Kept getting burn error!
I have never had that error. At what point is it saying that? I have the 6 qt. original pot, which do you have?
I got the same error message. I got the message when the pot started to pressurize.
If you use PIP method you won’t have any issue. I have made it both ways and never got that message at all though I have the original 6 qt. when it first came out, maybe newer versions are more sensitive and showing that?? I am not sure since I haven’t had that issue.