Great Northern Beans (Pressure Cooker)

Great Northern Beans (Pressure Cooker)

Hip Pressure Cooking, Laura Pazzaglia, United States.
I use a lot of dry beans as canned is just expensive compared to what you get. 500 grams of dry beans cooked, makes a lot of canned beans for sure. And dry beans are so cheap. I use my 9 liter (9½ quart) 80 kPa (12 psi) stove top pressure cooker. Follow your pressure cooker safety instructions at all times. This is for using soaked beans.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Passive Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 13 minutes
Course Side
Servings 0

Equipment

  • Pressure Cooker

Ingredients
  

  • 500 grams dry Great Northern beans, (1 lb)
  • salt, as needed
  • water, as needed
  • 2 tablespoons cooking oil, very important

Instructions
 

  • Rinse the beans and remove any bad ones and any debris, place in a large bowl and cover with 2 inches of water. Add 2 tablespoons of salt and stir that in. Cover the bowl and let that sit for at least 6 hours.
  • After 6 hours, drain and rinse the beans. You can see how much the beans swelled.
  • Place the beans in your pressure cooker. Add 8 cups of water, 1 teaspoon of salt, and the 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, the oil keeps the beans from foaming so do not skip the oil.
  • Place the lid on the pot, add the weight (jiggler), and bring the heat up to high. When the jiggler starts moving and releasing pressure, start timing this for 8 minutes, and turn the heat down to low or medium low to maintain the jiggler moving and releasing pressure.
  • At 8 minutes, turn off the heat and move the pressure cooker to an unused burner and allow a natural release of pressure. When the pressure is released, open the lid, use beans as needed in other recipes.

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    5 stars
    Excellent beans! The 8 minutes on pressure is spot on! I made these on 4 Aug 2018 for use in a soup. Highly recommended to use a pressure cooker for time savings, but most important, flavorful beans.

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