Great Northern Beans (Pressure Cooker)
Great Northern Beans (Pressure Cooker)
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.
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.
Notes
Used in Recipes Listed on this Site:
- Slow Cooker Baked Beans, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Chicken Alphabet Soup, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Beef Alphabet Soup.
- White Chicken Chili II, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Best-Ever Beans & Sausage, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Quick & Easy White Bean Salad.
- White Bean & Tuna Salad, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- One Pot Chickpeas & Pasta (Pasta e Ceci).
- Chicken & White Bean Stuffed Peppers.
- White Bean Hash.
- White Beans & Sausage, made it, GO-TO recipe.
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.