25+ Best Instant Pot Recipes for Easter
These are the best Easter Instant Pot recipes to prepare your holiday meal faster and easier than ever before! From pressure cooker egg dishes to entrees and desserts, this is your new holiday menu!
This year pull out your pressure cooker or Instant Pot to make your Easter dinner easier and tastier in a fraction of the time!
We always rely on our Instant Pot (sometimes more than one!) to prepare everything from juicy ham and creamy potatoes au gratin to perfect hard boiled eggs for our hunt.
You’ll also find some of our favorite baking recipes in this list to make something sweet in the oven while your pressure cooker is working hard.
Update: I’ve updated this Easter recipe round-up with more Instant Pot and baking recipes to be your one-stop shop for your entire holiday menu. Enjoy!
25+ Best Easter Recipes for the Instant Pot
These Easter Instant Pot recipes will work in any brand of electric pressure cooker, including the Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi, or Power Pressure Cooker XL. This list of recipes helps you maximize your kitchen space and make a delicious holiday meal from eggs to entrees to desserts!
Easter Main Dish Recipes
Sliced Ham in the Pressure Cooker
Bring a spiral ham to life in the Instant Pot / Pressure Cooker to enjoy warm, tender and sweet ham for Easter dinner with your favorite sides.
Old-Fashioned Pressure Cooker Pot Roast
A favorite for a reason, this simple recipe for Pot Roast and Potatoes is the easiest way to make fall-apart tender meat in a fraction of the time it would take in the oven.
Pressure Cooker Artichoke Chicken
Artichoke chicken is a quick, easy, Instant Pot chicken dinner recipe. Smoked paprika gives this Pressure Cooker Artichoke Chicken tons of flavor as well as a pretty color—plus, you can make it with what you have on hand in your pantry!
Split Pea Soup with Chicken Sausage
Spring flavors of fresh pea get a smoky and slightly spicy accent from chicken sausage in this satisfying green soup.
Shepherd's Pie
Instant Pot Shepherd’s pie can be made with ground beef or lamb, vegetables, and topped with crispy mashed potatoes for the perfect comfort food recipe.
Quick Black-Eyed Pea Soup
This simple Southern-style black-eyed pea soup has smokiness and heat to mix up the flavors on your Easter table.
Easter Side Dish Recipes
Pressure Cooker / Instant Pot Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin
Instant Pot Cheesy Potatoes Au Gratin are thinly sliced scalloped potatoes, coated in a rich, creamy, cheese sauce, and crowned with a crispy panko breadcrumb topping. The perfect side dish for a holiday dinner—or to make any weeknight meal special!
Rice Pilaf with Carrots, Peas and Parsley
Add spring flavors to your side dish spread with this easy pilaf featuring sweet carrots, bright peas and fresh parsley.
Instant Pot Baked Potatoes
Pile these easy baked potatoes high with any of your favorite toppings from scallions to sour cream to hot peppers and more!
Instant Pot Creamy Lemon Risotto
Instant Pot Lemon Risotto has a lemony flavor and creamy texture thanks to Arborio rice and melted parmesan cheese, plus bright green peas for color.
BLT Potato Salad
Combine tender steamed potatoes with smokey bacon and hearty eggs in this all-American side dish.
Pressure Cooker Curried Carrot Soup
Creamy, bright, and spiced with just enough curry seasoning, this simple carrot soup adds a new dimension to your classic Easter menu.
Creamy Instant Pot Mashed Potatoes
Stop boiling your potatoes when you're making mashed potatoes! To make the best mashed potatoes, make them in your Insta Pot / pressure cooker.
Orange Currant Hot Cross Buns
While your Instant Pot is steaming away, use your oven to make these soft and pillowy homemade hot cross buns from Barbara Bakes. Orange zest adds just the right amount of bitterness to balance the buttery and sweet dough.
Egg Recipes
Hard Boiled Eggs in the Pressure Cooker
Make the perfect easy-to-peel hard-boiled eggs in your Instant Pot / pressure cooker. Then enjoy the fun part: decorating them!
Zesty Instant Pot Deviled Eggs
Zesty, flavor-packed Pressure Cooker / Instant Pot Deviled Eggs made with Greek yogurt and your favorite mustard are perfect for spring celebrations.
Instant Pot BBQ Bacon Deviled Eggs
These make-ahead Instant Pot Deviled Eggs with Bacon are great for entertaining and are packed with flavor from your favorite BBQ sauce.
Pressure Cooker Scotch Eggs
Upgrade your Instant Pot hard-boiled eggs with a sausage casing for this classic treat perfect for Easter morning.
Instant Pot Egg Salad (with an Egg Loaf)
Creamy, traditional Egg Salad Sandwiches—made in an egg loaf in the Instant Pot—make a crunchy, tangy, and satisfying lunch with mayonnaise, sour cream, and fresh chives.
Instant Pot Quick Potato Salad
This Instant Pot Potato Salad Recipe is so easy, you’ll want to make it all the time! Cook hard-boiled eggs and potatoes together in the pressure cooker for quick, perfectly cooked eggs and potatoes every time. This is the best Instant Pot potato salad recipe!
Easter Dessert Recipes
Instant Pot Coconut Bundt Cake
Moist, springy Instant Pot Coconut Bundt Cake is easy to make with boxed cake mix, sour cream, coconut extract, and a buttery coconut glaze.
Pressure Cooker Robin Egg Mini Cheesecakes
As adorable as they are easy and fun to make, these portable cheesecakes are the perfect sweet treat for Easter, beloved by all ages.
Instant Pot Lemon Cheesecake
Tangy Instant Pot Lemon Cheesecake with meyer lemons, a shortbread cookie crust and cream cheese filling is a light, fluffy and tart pressure cooker dessert to love.
Raspberry Orange Bread Pudding
Instant Pot Raspberry Orange Bread Pudding features orange and raspberry flavors in a creamy, custardy bread pudding, drizzled in a delicious vanilla cream sauce.
My Favorite Pressure Cooker Rice Pudding
Make the best rice pudding using your pressure cooker or Instant Pot. It's quick, easy-to-make comfort food at it's best.
Mini Cheesecake Bites (Silicone Mold Recipe)
Make perfectly sized Instant Pot Cheesecake Bites in a silicone egg mold with a graham cracker crust and cream cheese custard filling for the perfect sweet treat.
Steamed Carrot Pudding Cake
This old-fashioned steamed carrot pudding is a unique recipe that's worth trying if you love rich caramel flavors and soft, springy pudding textures.
Easter Rocky Road Popcorn
Though it's not technically a pressure cooker recipe, this fun Easter popcorn is a must-have at our easter egg hunts! It's easy to make and always a crowd-pleaser.
Citrus Cream Cheese Pull Apart Rolls
It's another baking recipe from Barbara Bakes that I had to include. These bright orange-and-lemon pull-apart rolls have been our Easter breakfast for over 20 years.
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Where’s the recipe for the Coconut Bundt Cake?
Hi Sue – it’s a new recipe that will be posted soon! We had planned to have it posted before the roundup but the timing didn’t work out and we neglected to remove it from the list. It’s a fun tasty one that I think everyone will love. Stay tuned!
Thanks for the quick reply. I love coconut so I’ll definitely be watching for the recipe! 🙂
Jeannie – I used my steamer basket for boiling eggs. When done 6 min 6 MR after burning my fingers trying to get them to the ice water, I got smart and dumped them in – you want to crack them anyway before peeling. Works wonders.
Hi Jean – definitely don’t want burnt fingers. Sometimes I plunge the whole basket in the cold water.
How disappointing! I need a good lamb leg leg recipe.
Julia Child didn’t cook hers in a pressure cooker, but she marinated her lamb in mild oil, fresh lemon juice, soy sauce and rosemary. We take the roast apart, remove all the fat from the meat, marinate for a couple of days and cook the lamb on the grill. I’ve been doing this for 40 years and even lamb haters love Julia’s lamb.
Thanks for sharing Lindy!
Love the silicone cup idea – I’ve always set my eggs in and around small canning jar bands, which works great but the silicone cups would have more “give” to them and you can stack them up for storage. Thanks for the new idea!
I was skeptical until I tried it… now I’m a believer… They peeled so easy! I had one out of the 9 cracked… This will be how I cook them from now on.
Amazing! The eggs are gorgeous.