Pinto Beans (Pressure Cooker)
Pinto Beans (Pressure Cooker)
This recipe is for soaked as well as unsoaked beans. I used a stove top pressure cooker to make these on 28 Dec 2017, and I must say, the most flavorful pinto beans, I have ever eaten! No seasonings added, just beans, cooking oil, and water. I cooked the soaked beans on 20 Mar 2022, time is verified and delicious beans! Plus I took some photos. Follow all safety precautions for your pressure cooker.
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry Pinto beans
- 4 cups water
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
Instructions
- Rinse and drain the beans, remove any bad beans or debris.
For UNSOAKED Beans
- Add beans, water, and oil to your pressure cooker. Depending on the size of your pressure cooker, do not fill more than the halfway mark. Cover and lock the lid and turn on heat to high.
- When the jiggler starts making noise, indicating full pressure, reduce heat to maintain full pressure, start timing. 25 minutes if you like firm beans, and as long as 27 minutes for softer beans.
- Turn off the heat and move the cooker to an unused burner and do a natural release of pressure, just let the cooker sit until the lid lock drops indication no pressure. Carefully remove the jiggler keeping the top of the lid pointed away from you. When satisfied there is no pressure inside the cooker, unlock and remove the lid.
- Drain the beans and serve as a side dish or as an ingredient in another recipe.
For SOAKED Beans
- Add rinsed beans to a bowl and cover with 2 inches or so of water, let sit for at least 6 hours or overnight. For those readers in the tropics (myself included), place the beans in the fridge if soaking overnight or they may ferment on the counter top. I normally soak beans 6 hours then carry on with the recipe.
- Drain and rinse the beans. Add the beans, water, and oil to your pressure cooker. Depending on the size of your pressure cooker, do not fill more than the halfway mark. Cover and lock the lid and turn on heat to high.
- When the jiggler starts making noise, indicating full pressure, reduce heat to maintain full pressure, start timing. 25 minutes if you like firm beans, and as long as 27 minutes for softer beans.
- Turn off the heat and move the cooker to an unused burner and do a natural release of pressure, just let the cooker sit until the lid lock drops indication no pressure. Carefully remove the jiggler keeping the top of the lid pointed away from you. When satisfied there is no pressure inside the cooker, unlock and remove the lid.
- Drain the beans and serve as a side dish or as an ingredient in another recipe.
Notes
For a recipes that call can(s) (15 oz size) of beans, use a heaping half cup of dry beans for each can.
Used in Recipes Listed on this Site:
- Durango Chili.
- Beer-braised Chili.
- Bock BBQ Bean Salad.
- Pinto Bean Salsa Salad.
- Pinto Bean Salad.
- Best-Ever Beans & Sausage, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Salmon & Three Bean Salad.
- Dorito Taco Salad, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Cowboy Soup.
- Cajun Pinto Beans, made it, GO-TO recipe.
- Taco Soup.
- Beef & Bean Casserole.
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