Instant Pot Cheddar Bacon Mashed Potatoes–creamy mashed potatoes with grated cheddar and bits of bacon made easy in your electric pressure cooker. A perfect side dish for your Easter dinner.
Get the recipe for SLOW COOKER bacon cheddar mashed potatoes here
Instant Pot Cheddar Bacon Mashed Potatoes
One of my favorite things to make in my Instant Pot is mashed potatoes. It’s just so easy. You add in some water and some potatoes and turn it on and walk away. I love not having to worry about the water boiling over on the stove.
These cheddar bacon mashed potatoes are fancy potatoes that would go perfectly with a ham or turkey dinner. Or you can just eat them straight out the pot. I won’t judge.
What Pressure Cooker Did You Use?
To make Instant Pot Cheddar Bacon Mashed Potatoes I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*. I love this Instant Pot because it has the yogurt making function which I use almost weekly. It has two pressure settings (high and low), and there are also little slots in the handles so that you can rest the lid there instead of putting it down on your counter-top.
Instant Pot Easter Recipes Blog Hop
Easter is sneaking up on us! I’m so excited to share with you today some recipes from some food blogger friends. All of these recipes are dishes you make in your Instant Pot for Easter. The only problem is that I’m going to need about 5 more instant pots!!
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Instant Pot Cheesy Hash Brown Casserole –Pressure Cooking Today
Instant Pot French Toast Casserole – Happy Healthy Mama
Instant Pot Bluberry French Toast Bake – Oh, Sweet Basil
Instant Pot Corn Casserole Recipe – The Typical Mom
Instant Pot Baked Potatoes – Self Proclaimed Foodie
Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes – Crunchy Creamy Sweet
Instant Pot Carrot Cake – Instant Pot Eats
Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes – Your Homebased Mom
Instant Pot Ham with Homemade Glaze – Oh So Delicioso
Instant Pot Potatoes Au Gratin – Bite of Delight
Instant Pot Creamy Chicken and Pasta – The Butter Half
Instant Pot Lamb Biryani – Paint the Kitchen Red
Instant Pot Cheddar Bacon Mashed Potatoes
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
Description
Creamy buttermilk garlic mashed potatoes with grated cheddar and bits of bacon made easy in your electric pressure cooker. A perfect side dish for your Easter dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 3 pounds Russet potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup warmed buttermilk (or you can use 1/4 cup milk and 1/4 cup plain greek yogurt)
- 2 cups medium or sharp cheddar, grated
- 3/4 cup crumbled bacon (I use pre-packaged bacon crumbles for sake of ease)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Pour water into the bottom of the Instant Pot. Add in the potatoes, garlic, bay leaf and kosher salt.
- Cover and secure the lid. Make sure the valve is set to “sealing.” Set the manual/pressure cook button to 5 minutes (high pressure).
- When the cook time ends perform a quick release by moving the valve to venting. Remove the lid and test the potatoes for doneness.
- Discard the bay leaf. Use a colander to drain off liquid.
- Use a potato masher to mash the potatoes and garlic until mostly smooth. Mash in the butter and gradually stir in the buttermilk. Stir in the cheddar and the bacon crumbles. Salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*.
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Instant Pot
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I like your blog BUT!!! As both my wife and I are diabetics and twenty percent of American population is diabetic is it not discrimination to not have a category for diabetics? I go into restaurants and when asked if I want dessert and told they dont have SF I tell ’em outright that’s discrimination so as I am telling you. Think…..is twenty percent or is it not high enough percentage of the population to offer/carry SF? I have been forced to take recipes and convert to SF. It would be so much easier if it was SF in the first place. What hurts the most is you (as everyone does) will ignore this note and nothing will come of it if, if it’s even read at all. Al
Al Penaluna. I am also diabetic. What I do like about Karen’s IP recipes is that in many of hers she also includes the nutritional information. Many don’t do that. So I do thank her for that. However, I can’t expect that every recipe should have that. We can figure out that for ourselves when we see a recipe like this yummy Instant Pot Cheddar Bacon Mashed Potatoes. We know that isn’t for us. There is a cookbook out for Instant Pot for Diabetics but it really isn’t that great. So please go to Karen’s website and look at her Instant Pot recipes and you will see that many do have the info we need to make our “smart choices” on which ones to print out. I for one now only print out the ones that have that information for me. Hope to see more Instant Pot Cookbooks in the future that do include that information. I did purchase two Keto Instant Pot Cookbooks and both of those are pretty good. No I am not doing the “Keto Diet” but great recipes that works for diabetics.
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Here is a link to my low carb instant pot recipes. Hope this helps! https://www.365daysofcrockpot.com/recipes/?fwp_method=instant-pot&fwp_dietary_restrictions=low-carb
If I needed to hold these for 1/2 hour or so before serving, I could put back in on warm, but should I add the cheese and bacon right away or wait till serving?
Hi Karen, you could do it either way really! I would probably add the cheese and bacon at first and keep on warm.
Thank you and Happy Easter!
I am craving a big plate of these bacon and cheese mashed potatoes right now! Instant Pot potatoes are the best!