Having beans completes a meal in our home. There are some important steps in making good pinto beans. Since getting an Instant Pot, it’s become so much easier to make good beans. In total it takes me about an hour and 30 minutes to make beans ya’ll! And I’m talking a 2lb bag of pintos. If you follow me on Instagram you recently saw the beautiful bean image on my feed. I honestly was so excited to see how beautiful and delicious they turned out. A super easy recipe and if you have an Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker, you’ll need to give it a try very soon. *Amazon links are my affiliate links* Thanks!
RECIPE NOTES
You can always cut the recipe in half and it will take less time obviously. But let’s pretend you are also making a full two pound bag of pinto beans. One thing I haven’t mentioned is that you don’t have to soak these beans. My mom always recommends I soak my beans so they will be done faster, but you don’t even have to do that when you are using an Instant Pot. One more thing, the beans will cook for an hour in your Instant Pot. The timer will not start until the pressure has built up in the pot so that adds about 20 minutes. If you have an IP you are aware, if you don’t, I want to explain that so you are aware. Cleaning the beans should take about 10 minutes and then I added the 20 for the pressure.
CLEAN YOUR BEANS
Yes, you must clean your beans. Even though the bag might say, they have been cleaned the last thing you want to do is chip a tooth on a rock left in your beans. I also like to pull out the incomplete beans. They are cut open or in pieces, they don’t need to be cooked in my opinion. After they are cooked, some of your beans will split or loose their shell, and that’s ok. You won’t even notice because you’ll be enjoying them so much. After you clean your beans the cooking process begins. See examples of what I pull out of my beans in the image below and check out that rock! I always freak out when I foud big ones.
LET’S COOK THOSE BEANS
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Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Cheers!
Candy
Great tip about washing the beans. Sometimes you never know what is hiding in those bags.
Using an instapot definitely cuts down on cooking times
It certainly does Cristine. I’m loving my IP.
I didn’t know that you don’t have to soak beans when using an instant Pot! I need to eat more beans as I am told it might help with my slightly high cholesterol!
Yes! That’s the best part! No soaking the beans.
That would be crazy to have a rock in with the beans! It’s good to know about that. I’ve never cooked pinto beans like this. Once in a while I add lentils to soup, but I don’t have experience with other dried beans.
I recently found a love for lentils! Lentils take way less to cook too, like 20 minutes I think.