Quick Soaking Beans (Pressure Cooker)
I tested this method today and it is good. If you forgot to soak your beans for at least 6 hours (like I did today) I went to a trusted site for how to quick soak in the pressure cooker. I used my 9 liter (9½ quart) 80 kPa (12 psi) stove top pressure cooker. Follow the safety instructions for your model of pressure cooker.
Equipment
- Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- dry beans
- water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
Instructions
- Rinse the beans and remove any debris, place the beans in your pressure cooker.
- Add 4 cups of water for every 1 cup of dry beans.
- Regardless if quick soaking 1 cup or many cups of beans, add just 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of oil. (The salt normally keeps the skins from splitting, and the oil to prevent foaming.)
- Place the lid on the pressure cooker and add the weight (jiggler). Turn on high heat and bring to full pressure. When the jiggler indicates full pressure, start timing for 2 minutes and reduce the heat to low or medium low to maintain pressure release.
- When 2 minutes have passed, turn off the heat and move the cooker to an unused burner.
- Now we are going to do what is called a Normal pressure release, meaning you are going to tilt the weight (jiggler) to let off pressure. Put on an oven mitt, and gently tilt the weight to allow pressure to gently release (NEVER PULL THE WEIGHT OFF!!!), just tilt it slightly for about 10 seconds then let go. About 10 seconds later, repeat with tilting the weight. Do this until the lid lock releases (drops). (When you release the pressure in this manner, you are causing violent boiling inside the pot, which is speeding up the 'quick soaking.')
- When the lid lock drops, remove the weight, remove the lid. Drain and rinse the beans, they may look wrinkly, that is fine.
- Now your beans are ready to be cooked for a recipe that calls for 'soaked beans.'
I used this method for chickpeas on 4 Aug 2018, absolutely perfect. I cooked the quick soaked chickens as per my instructions on this site, excellent results.