If you’re looking for an easy meal for two or your whole family these pressure cooker baked potatoes. Made in an Instant Pot, Crockpot Express or as Ninja Foodi baked potatoes you’ll have tender fluffy taters.
This pressure cooker baked potatoes and stuffed chicken meal is perfect for busy days! Make just one or both and your bunch is sure to ask for seconds. Added to our list of 101+ easy and quick Instant Pot recipes. (post may contain affiliate links present)
Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker Baked Potatoes
School is back in session and busy is probably an understatement if I were to describe your household right now huh?? No, I didn’t look into your window but I’m right there with you with 3 girls in 3 different schools.
Now is the time to start using your multi cooker pot y’all. I am telling you that it will save so much time, your sanity and allow y’all to eat more often together. I have several brands and make lots of Ninja Foodi recipes but they all work just the same to make these.
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.
Instant Pot Baked Potatoes without Foil
There is no need for aluminum foil here. You do want to keep them out of the water as they steam to fluffy so a trivet is needed. Use the one that came with your machine and you will be set to move forward from here. Just set on top!
How to Cook Pressure Cooker Baked Potatoes without Trivet
If you have misplaced this don’t worry, you can wad up some foil balls and set those below. If you have a few oven safe ramekins those can be used too, you just want to keep the food out of the liquid below so they don’t get mushy.
Takes a little longer than Baked Potato in the Microwave, about 30 minutes but then you’ll have a few delicous taters that everyone will love. You can see just how delicious these are below.
Ingredients
- 5 medium sized potatoes, we used brown Idaho potatoes
- Sea salt is best
- And some water or liquid of choice
I like using sea salt that is a bit larger than table salt. It sticks well and when done gives you that restaurant texture and taste. Especially if you are going to throw them under the broiler or air fryer at the end you want that added goodness to make the skins delicious beyond belief. You may want cheddar cheese or 5 ingredient chili to stuff.
How to Pressure Cook Large Baked Potatoes
- Scrub the potatoes and then pierce with a fork all the way around each one for the steam to escape. Rub salt on the outside of the skins
- Put a trivet inside your pressure cooker with 1.5 c. water, make sure water doesn’t touch trivet itself.
- Place 4-5 potatoes inside your pressure cooker.
- Close lid and steam valve and set to high pressure to cook the russet potatoes for 15 minutes cooking time. (note, time will vary according to how large each one is, I have found for medium size baking potatoes 15 minutes gets the middle done and insides tender).
- Allow to naturally release pressure for at least 5 minutes to be perfectly cooked, light and fluffy. Pressure release steam that is left now.
- Use a fork to pierce to ensure middle of potato is done. If not, put back and set for additional 5 minutes if needed. Enjoy!
They are great served as a meal too like pulled pork baked potato topped with cheese!
How to Make Pressure Cooker Baked Potatoes Crispy
My Ninja Foodi air fryer is a game changer to get crispy skin at the end too. Just a spray of olive oil, sprinkle of salt at 400 F for about 5 minutes and OMG. Use any brand of air fryer basket y’all but to air fry after tender is a must for sure.
Other easy potato recipes you’ll love
Best way to make baked potatoes in the oven – so the skins are crispy, insides are fluffy. If you want baked potatoes in the air fryer we have those too. Just as fluffy inside but with crispy potato skins you’ll love.
- You can make Instant Pot potatoes and carrots together.
- Smoked baked potatoes – the taste of these is amazing
- Crockpot baked potatoes are great if you’re gone for the day
We’ve cooked Ninja Foodi french fries in our air fryer too which were a wonderful side dish. AND potato skins are killer if you want to take the extra step of stuffing each of them. Try our pressure cooker baked potatoes and stuffed chicken and let us know what you think.
Pressure Cooker Baked Potatoes
Equipment
- 1 trivet
Ingredients
- 5 medium potatoes, we used brown Idaho potatoes
- 1 tsp salt
- 1.5 c water
Instructions
- Wash and then pierce potatoes with a fork all the way around each potato. Rub salt on the outside of the skins
- Put a trivet inside your pressure cooker with 1.5 c. water, make sure water doesn’t touch trivet itself (don’t want potatoes touching water)
- Place 4-5 potatoes inside your pressure cooker.
- Close lid and steam valve and set to high pressure for 15 minutes. (note, time will vary according to how large your potatoes are but I have found for medium size baking potatoes 15 minutes gets the middle done and insides tender).
- Allow to naturally release pressure for at least 5 minutes, release rest of pressure. Use a fork to pierce to ensure middle of potato is done. If not, put back and set for additional 5 minutes if needed. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Is it necessary to use a specific type of pressure cooker? I noticed the phrase “instant pot”.
Thank you
Nope. That is just the one I have. Just use pressure high setting on the model you have.