Easy Instant Pot Bacon
How to cook bacon in the Instant Pot with the saute button. Great way to cook bacon for a soup you will make in the Instant Pot afterward.
Ingredients
- bacon
Instructions
- Place 4-5 rashers of bacon in the bottom of a cold Instant Pot.
- Make sure the bacon does not touch, You can cut it in half to fit better and cook faster.
- Hit the sauté button. Default time should be 30 minutes, no need to change it.
- Allow the fat to slowly start to render from the bacon. Once starting to brown on one side, flip it over once. Cook until as crispy as you like it. It should take between about 10 minutes for the first batch.
- Remove bacon to a paper towel lined plate.
- If working in batches, immediately add the next batch of bacon. It will cook faster since pot is already hot and there is already fat in the pot.
- Hit the cancel button once you are done cooking all the bacon.
- To clean the pot, let it cool for 1 minute, then add a little bit of water to the bottom of the pan. Scrap the bottom with a spatula to remove the brown stuff stuck on the bottom.
- If you are making a soup afterward in the pot, you can just add a little bit of your liquid the soup recipe calls for, scrap the bottom, and then add the rest of your ingredients.