You don’t need to soak your pinto beans overnight or cook them forever when you have a pressure cooker or Instant Pot, you can make them from scratch while cooking the rest of your dinner.
So, are you ready to learn how to make pinto beans from pressure cooker? Join me in the bistro kitchen!
Recipe
Easy pressure cooker vegetables Of course, you can buy a can of pinto beans and have them in your pantry when you want to add them to your tacos
or a salad.
But you can also easily make a large pan of pinto beans and serve them with rice or potatoes.
If you buy a bag of pinto beans, you can make
10 times more beans with a bag of dry pinto beans than you get in a can of pinto beans
. Now dried beans normally take a long time to
make them editable, but get into our trusted Instant Pot and it will take a fraction of the time.
Do you
need to soak the
dried beans before cooking them under pressure? Cooking?
In this recipe, there is no need to soak the beans, you can cook them right away. You just need to wash the beans.
If you have time, you can pre-soak the dried beans for 4-6 hours in water. Add 2 to 3 times the volume of beans in water.
The cooking time in pressure will be 7 to 9 minutes.
You can also cook the dried beans in the instant pot for 30 minutes and leave the beans with the lid closed for 1-2 hours to get soft beans.
The choice is yours to choose what best suits you.
Ingredients of
instant
pinto
beans
To make these pinto beans you need the following ingredients and put them on the shopping list:Dried pinto
beans
- Onion
- Garlic
- Cumin powder
- Dark soy sauce Hot sauce
- Water or vegetable broth
- Fresh pepper
<img src="https://fastfoodbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Instant-Pot-Pinto-Beans-1.jpg" alt="No need to soak
your pinto beans,
just put them in your instant pot or pressure cooker and have the best and smooth pinto beans of all time. A great side dish, to serve with rice or use in your taco or salad recipes. Want to try? Visit fastfoodbistro.com for the full recipe and instructions” />
How to make pinto beans from pressure cooker
It is very easy to make pinto beans from scratch and it is really cheap because you buy dried pinto beans in large bags.
Start by finely chopping the onion and chopping the garlic. Put your Instant Pot in skipping high.
When the pot is warm add oil before adding the onion and garlic.
Sauté and stir the onion mixture for about 3 minutes, until smooth and translucent.
Then add cumin, hot sauce, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder and salt. Stir for a couple of seconds.
Add water and stir. Wash pinto beans in a strainer or mesh strainer and put them in the instant pot.
Now add the soy sauce and black pepper.
Press the “Cancel” button on your pressure cooker. Close the lid and secure it, adjust the valve to the sealing position.
Select Pressure cooker or Manual button and cook at high pressure for 50-60 minutes.
When the cooking time is over, let the pressure cooker release naturally for 15 minutes. Release any remaining pressure.
Open Instant Pot and scramble. Serve immediately.
Why are my pinto beans still hard?
Depending on the number of pinto beans in the pressure
cooker, it may take longer to soften
the pinto beans.
When your pinto beans are not completely soft, simply close the instant pot and cook under high pressure for another 10 minutes
.
You can also leave the lid in the pot and let the beans sit for 1 or 2 hours. They will also soften.
How to Store the
pinto beans You can store these pinto beans
Instant Pot in several ways and you have the following options: Refrigerator: You can store pinto
- beans in the refrigerator. Let them cool completely before continuing. Put them in an airtight, leak-free food container or in a Ziploc bag. You can store them in the fridge for up to 5 days.
- Freezer: You can also store pinto beans in the freezer for up to 5 months. Again, let the pinto beans cool completely first and then store them with the liquids from the instant pot in an airtight food container or Ziploc bag.
How to
Reheat Pinto Beans If you cooked pinto beans and stored them in the fridge or freezer, you have several ways
to reheat them: Instant Pot: You
- can use your pressure cooker or Instant Pot to reheat the pinto beans. If frozen, put the frozen pinto beans in the pot and add 1/3 cup of water. Close the lid and secure it, turn the valve to the sealing position and cook under pressure by cooking under pressure, steam or manual for 8 minutes. If your pinto beans are not frozen, set the time
- put them in a Dutch oven, add 1/3 to 1/2 cup of water and simmer and let the beans warm up in 5 minutes
to 5 minutes and the natural release for 5 minutes, then the Dutch quick-release oven: Another way to reheat pinto beans is to
Serve pinto beans with If you
make pinto beans, you can find many great recipes to serve them like
:Instant Pot
- Long grain rice
- Crumbled potato pork
- Mashed potatoes
- Instant Pot whole chicken
- Pressure cooker Boiled potatoes
- Pork chops
Easier
vegetable recipes If you’re looking for
more
vegetable recipes check out these:
- Spinach Instant Pot
- Cauliflower puree
- Fast broccoli
- Fry air vegetable mixture
- Green beans with cheese
- Honey and garlic carrots
- Roasted cauliflower
- Garlic mushrooms
I hope you try this easy Instant Pot pinto bean recipe
!
You made a recipe, tag it @fastfoodbistro on INSTAGRAM, PIN on PINTEREST, and like it on FACEBOOK for more information and updates.
