Perfectly cooked Egg Bites in the Ninja Foodi

hi there and welcome to the salted pepper where we cook for real life using real food and we keep it real simple and today I am going to make some egg bites and I'm gonna do that in the Ninja 36.5 quart pressure cooker and air crisper but I'm also gonna use a ninja fitty blender in this video now you do not have to have the ninja foodie hot cold blender or any blender to do this recipe you can simply whip everything up by hand but I have it and I love to use it and it makes such easy work of this recipe that I'm gonna go ahead and use it so egg bites I have seen a gazillion different recipes in facebook groups and you know online and everybody just loves and raves about egg bites but I have never liked them and I've tried different recipes and I've pressure cooked them on low and I've pressure cooked them on high and they've always just come out too rubbery and I don't like them either they're too rubbery or they're not set enough you know I could never get that fine balance and then one morning I decided you know what let me use the steam function and oh my goodness were they delicious and now I'm gonna share that technique with you the recipe is just some ingredients that I had on hand and I'm gonna use in this recipe but if you use the 5 eggs and heavy whipping cream or half-and-half or milk and put whatever other ingredients you want in there you will end up with fantastic tasting egg bites as well so I'm gonna start off with 5 eggs so I'm just cracking the eggs into a separate bowl you could crack them directly into the blender or whatever bowl you're gonna use to whisk them up I just put them in this bowl in case I get any shells and then I can just pick them out before they go into the blender because you don't want to be reaching down where those blades are in the blender they are very very sharp I've already cut myself once so use caution alright so 5 whole eggs and these are large eggs they're from our chickens so they vary in size but I picked up five that look like they would be equivalent to large eggs in the grocery store or even extra low just fine all right so we've got our eggs and I'm just gonna dump that right into the ninja foodie hot cold blunder and to that I'm gonna add a quarter cup of heavy whipping cream that's just my preference because it really does give a beautiful texture and a nice rich flavor but you could use whole milk skim milk you could even use water it would be fine now the other ingredient that I'm gonna add in that is probably a little unusual is some cream cheese this again gives this really nice creamy texture to your egg white you could omit it if you wanted or you could substitute it for cottage cheese I see that in a lot of recipes and I'm sure that would work just fine I'm gonna go ahead and get that out put that in then I have a half of Adalia which is a sweet onion and I'm gonna throw that in and you can see it's I didn't even cut it up because you don't need to all right now this blended up I'm not putting in my ham and my cheese yet you could if you didn't want any particles of the ham and cheese in your egg bite if you wanted it to have the flavors but not any pieces you could put it in now but I want a little bit of texture in my my egg bite so I'm gonna hold off and put it in a little bit later all right so we get the blender lid on here turn it on and I'm just gonna go to this smoothie and just let it let it do it okay that's it now I'm gonna go ahead and open up the blender and I'm gonna put in the ham and the cheese now that is one ounce of cubed Swiss cheese and two ounces of hand and again you could skip the ham and cheese you could put in vegetables I put in some like little mini sweet red peppers one time and I put them in so that they there weren't any particles I put him in braids at the very beginning the flavor was outstanding but you didn't have any of the actual pepper when you bit into it it was really smooth creamy kind of luxurious great tasting egg bite to be honest but this time I decided I'll just do ham and cheese cuz I had some left over I needed to use now what I'm gonna do is just pulse of course i pulse about three or four times and now my ham is in really small pieces so if you wanted it to be in bigger pieces just either hand chop it a little bit you know a little like little small dices or just pulse once but I like just a little bit of hint of ham without a big chunk because I just think that it gives a better texture overall to the egg bite alright so that's it now we are done with that mixture but you know what I could do though and let me go ahead and do that even though the ham is salty I and I'm not gonna add too much salt I am gonna add a little bit of salt and I should have done that before I put the ham in so I'm gonna add just about a half of a teaspoon of salt and a quarter teaspoon of black pepper again totally optional just my preference and I'll put this lid back on and just give it one more little quick pulse there we go that's good enough all right so now the egg bite mold itself you can spray this with um you know any kind of oil that you want I usually just brush it on the inside with butter now when you pressure cook egg whites I've noticed that no matter what I do they seem to stick that was one of the issues and that's because the heat gets so hot under pressure but it actually over cooks the eggs and causes the the protein in them to change and stick I don't find that to be a problem when you steam them but I still like to put a little bit of butter in there it makes it a lot easier to clean them too I think so I'm just gonna grab a little bit on my silicone basting brush and just kind of go in there and just just butter the sides and the bottom well you don't need a whole lot [Music] [Music] [Music] all right that looks good now but the little bit of butter that's left on my brush here I am just going to paint it on the back of my silicon cover the only reason why I'm doing that is because the egg bites will rise as they cook and if they hit the silicon cover and the silicon cover is not buttered or greased with oil whatever and it's hot they could stick to the top so I'm just gonna do that just as a precaution not totally necessary though all right so let me get all this out of the way one thing real quick before I fill these up is I wanted to talk about the lid most of the egg white molds will come with a plastic lid and they are not meant to go into the pressure cooker especially if your pressure cooking it might be okay steaming but I just prefer to use the silicone cover from waffles I just just my preference but yeah you shouldn't pressure cook with those from what I've heard all right so now let's get the blender here and we will pour in our egg mixture now there will be some settling at the bottom so what I do is I usually take this halfway for each one because the ham and the cheese is gonna be kind of at the bottom so I take it about halfway and then when we get to the bottom we will either smoke so what a little farm that one will spoon in the ham into each one if it doesn't just pour out you want to take these two about 3/4 of the way full not all the way because like I said they will rise up I might have a little bit more in here maybe because I added more ingredients this time so let me go ahead and get a spoon cuz I want to get down and get that ham for sure just grab this spoon here cuz the chunks of the ham and the cheese are in the bottom we want to get those in we can't wait for these there's a little bit of the egg mixture left over you know you could either make another another batch you could do the double batch at the same time I know a lot of people do that with their egg bites they'll actually get two of these and stack them so you could probably one-and-a-half this recipe and make to two trays I think because I do have some left forever probably enough for another three or four egg bites and I'm filling them definitely 3/4 of the way I might even be going a little bit more because I hate to waste anything the other thing you could do is probably take the eggs down to four eggs instead of five but it depends on what ingredients you add in because I've made this recipe with all kinds of different ingredients and usually it will fill seven of these little wells perfectly know what it really is cuz I'm only ending up with gosh just about I don't know maybe a tablespoon left over so no big deal there all right backwards all right now we're gonna get the lid on and then what you want to do when you're steaming in the ninja foodie is at least start off with 2 cups of water 2 cups is a good amount because obviously when we're steaming we're gonna have the evaporation of the water and you don't want to run out of water before your food is cooked it just creates all kinds of issues so 2 cups of water is my general rule of thumb for steaming anywhere from 5 minutes up to 15 minutes it seems to last that long if you're gonna steam longer you might want to add in 3 cups but like for this recipe don't say oh well I'm just gonna err on the side of caution and put in 3 cups because your the time that it takes to start the steaming process and start the countdown will be greater and you will run the risk of overcooking your eggs if you go the full 12 minutes like we're gonna do so 2 cups of water room temperature water and don't even heat up your water before this process yes it will start the countdown sooner but the problem is is that you may under cook your eggs because I take into consideration the time that it takes to reach a full steam and start the countdown in this recipe so 2 cups of room-temperature water is what you want to use all right put your egg bites on the tray you just adjust them a little bit here all right that looks good now some people don't even cover their egg bites but I don't know I just feel like we're steaming and I don't I don't want water in my eggs so I'm gonna cover that it's totally up to you though some people don't do it they say it works out just fine all right so now we're going to put a lid on now when you're steaming you definitely want to put the valve to the vent position when you are venting for the ninja foodie you will feel it lift up and click you want to hear that and feel that click like that because it sits up on a ledge and make sure that it doesn't fall back down into the sealing position because even if you hit the steam function if you were sealed you are going to be pressure cooking okay because the pot doesn't know the difference it's going to pressure cook if you seal in the steam so make sure that it's vented turn them into footing on and we're gonna go to the steam function we want 12 minutes and hit start now it's gonna take probably about 5 4 7 minutes to start the countdown so it's gonna be boiling the water creating the steam you may even see the little red button pop up during the process don't worry about that it will pop up and it'll go back down sometimes sometimes it stays up for a prolonged period of time don't even worry about it as long as you're vented it'll be fine you're not going under pressure alright so we just have a few seconds left on the 12 minute steaming process and I just wanted to let you know that this time my red pin not pop up now some of the pins are not red I've heard on the newer models they're actually silver so it doesn't matter what color silver red whatever mine did not pop up this time sometimes it has and sometimes it doesn't so mine did not now the other thing is it took nine minutes to start the countdown so that's fine I thought a little be a little bit quicker but that's okay so nine minutes and now we've gone 12 minutes we don't have to do any kind of release on this because there is no pressure built in the ninja hoodie so we don't have to do any kind of a release when it says done we can just simply open up the lid do that away from you this is steamy all right now we're gonna pull the rack out and get the cover off I always say it just to just like cross my fingers just a little bit right now I'm gonna leave these on to take this off all right let's lift whoa they look perfect yay they look good they're all set in the middle I've tried a different time of like 10 minutes and sometimes they weren't set right like on the top or even in the middle but these look like they're perfectly fine so that's wonderful now what I'm gonna do is see if they just cool just a few minutes will they start to pull away from the silicone and it looks like this one over here is already starting to pull away and that's what we want to do so we're just gonna leave them on this rack for a few minutes let them start to pull away probably gonna get my cake tester and sort of help it along a little bit then we will pop them out and we'll taste them and it's that easy so these are super easy to make they've been cooling at just maybe three or four minutes and I'm just going around with my cake tester I use this thing a lot I'm just going down the sides you don't have to do this if you don't care if they all come out perfectly you don't have to do this but it'd be a little embarrassing if they don't but you know what it's always a possibility so don't freak out one inline may not come out it doesn't matter they will taste delicious but it looks like these are pretty good so I'm gonna go ahead and and do the flip Louie here we go will I get seven for seven that is the thing hmm let's see I'm just gonna flip them out you can flip them out onto the rack you can flip them out onto your cutting board but I'm just gonna go ahead and use this and like if I was gonna serve them or something so I'm just gonna use this here flip them all the way over you could even let them cool a little bit longer if you want it and then I just sort of lightly squeeze until I feel like they're loose they're a little hot to be honest with you this middle one feels like it's a little bit tighter I will not be surprised if that one does not fall right out you can even push okay moment of truth let's say did I get all seven out I'm not sure oh please well I got six out now this little guy you know what it'll be right for me it's not that he's not gonna come out find me is he just didn't come out the same way but anyway there you go so you've got these beautiful egg bites all right and they feel really pretty soft hopefully they're done in the center what if they're not well if they're not put them back in and get them back under steam for a few minutes all right I'm gonna go ahead and cut it right like that okay so that is perfect you can see the cheese melted the eggs are completely set but they're nice and soft I can tell that they're not gonna be rubbery oh my gosh look anyway I even got some cheese pull all right doesn't matter what they look like let's see what they taste like oh my goodness these are so good mmm now this is exactly how I like my eggs they are soft but they are set they're cooked all the way through they are not rubbery at all if you liked your egg bites a little bit firmer I would go ahead and increase the steam time to about 14 or 15 minutes but these are perfect for me mmm oh my gosh they taste amazing now the onion you really get the flavor of the onion but none of the onion pieces and I like that I really do there is a little bit of texture from the ham but not too much it's really wonderful that she is is delicious in this oh these are perfection I hope you give this technique a try switch up the ingredients any which way that you want spinach and sausage or just plain cheese just plain egg anything you are gonna absolutely love these they are delicious and the great news is you can easily make them ahead of time and you can reheat them in the microwave all you need to do is just put them on a plate in the microwave for 30 seconds to one minute and they will be heated through and they don't overcook

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Length: 19min 29sec (1169 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 05 2020