Jacket Potatoes in the Instant Pot Duo Crisp

The perfect comfort food, Jacket Potatoes, just got a whole lot easier with the Instant Pot Duo Crisp!

Jacket potatoes famously take ages in the oven or we end up taking a shortcut with the microwave, which not everyone likes to use.

What if you cook them from start to finish in one appliance?

Do you need to prick the potatoes before pressure cooking?

I don’t prick them but you totally can if you want.

Don’t have an Instant Pot Duo Crisp (yet)?

Follow the pressure cooking part and then crisp up under the grill, in the oven or in the air fryer.

Where can you buy the Instant Pot Duo Crisp in 220-240 voltage?

At the time of writing this (early July 2020), only on the Instant Pot UK website but Amazon UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain will have it soon too.

Can I cook more than two potatoes at the same time?

I did two potatoes because that’s all I needed.

In fact, I only needed one potato really.

You can fit more potatoes in to cook more at the same time.

If you want to bake quite a few potatoes you may need to use the air fryer basket provided with your Instant Pot Duo Crisp.

Or you could use the trivet / steamer rack on the lower setting for baking them too and pile them up.

Play with it to get it right.

The key is that you don’t want the potatoes too near the air fryer lid (or the pressure cooking lid in fact) as they will obstruct the lid from doing its job properly.

What are the higher and lower settings of the Instant Pot Duo Crisp’s trivet/steamer rack?

The handles of the trivet/steamer rack that comes with the Instant Pot Duo Crisp can also be locked in to become legs that can bring things closer to the Air Fryer Lid.

Below is a video I filmed to explain

Want more recipes for the Instant Pot Duo Crisp?

Find all of mine here. These are the ones that utilise the Air Fryer Lid.

You can cook all my usual Instant Pot recipes too, which you will find here.

As you can see the Crisp gives you scope to cook a lot and the versatility that the Air Fryer lid provides is huge!

Jacket Potatoes in the Instant Pot Duo Crisp

Fancy printable card further down

Ingredients

• Baking potatoes

• Butter

• 500 ml water (cold)

Method

1.

Add 500 ml water (cold) to the inner pot.

2.

Place the baking potatoes on trivet on the lower setting.

3.

Lock the pressure cooking lid in place after checking the sealing ring is properly in place by pressing down on it following its circumference.

4.

Press Pressure Cook and programme 20 minutes. Do a Quick Pressure Release at the end. Very large potatoes are likely to need more time, small potatoes are likely to need less time.

5.

Discard the water, quickly dry the inner pot and place it back in the cooker.

6.

Swap the trivet /steamer rack to the higher setting by flipping the handles until they lock in place and magically become legs (this is the higher setting of the trivet, see photo above).

7.

Carefully (they will be hot) pat dry and coat the potatoes with butter and place on the trivet.

8.

Place the Air Frying Lid on. Press Broil (which is set at 204ºC only), set to 10 minutes.

Want them crispier? Check on them at the end and add more time.

Note:

The timings will vary for different sizes of potatoes. Very large potatoes will need longer, small potatoes will need less time.

Oops forgot to take a decent photo the way I like it… You’ll have to forgive me.

a) I was hungry.

b) My life and personality are both a tad imperfect 😉

What are your favourite jacket potato fillings?

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