Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans are a fast, easy, inexpensive and delicious recipe for beans that you can serve up on their own with some brown rice or as the perfect side dish.
Pressure cookers are one of those appliances you either have and use all the time or really have no clue about. I, for one, was a long time, card-carrying member the latter category. I had actually been gifted one a long time ago, and although I had always heard previously just how indispensable a pressure cooker can be — especially when it came to cooking foods like meats and beans quickly with tender, succulent results — I always managed to come up with a seemingly endless amount of excuses to avoid figuring out how to use mine. For some inexplicable reason, I found my pressure cooker so totally intimidating , that it sat untouched in my closet for years before I finally decided to take the plunge. Once I did, I couldn’t stop using it.
Chloe is an obsessive bean eater, but with the requisite eight-plus hours of soaking and simmering to make most beans fresh, cooking them always presented a real challenge for me. The pressure cooker did away with all that. My friend Nilva grew up using a pressure cooker daily, and so she gave me a crash course in how to use one to make beans fresh in a fraction of the time. Much to my surprise, it couldn’t have been easier. All it required was dumping in all of my ingredients and locking the lid. 40 minutes later, alerted by a whistle as loud as a freight train and a beautiful geyser of steam bursting from the spout, my beans were done and indeed they tasted as superior as the best ones I had ever had.
Does your family love beans? Try my Slow Cooker Black Eyed Peas, Pressure Cooker Black Beans, and Baked Beans in the Slow Cooker recipes!
Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans
Ingredients
- 1 pound dry pinto beans
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 bunch cilantro stems, tied together with butcher’s twine
- 7 cups water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a pressure cooker and, following the manufacturer’s directions, cover and lock the lid and cook on high pressure for 40 minutes.
- Allow the steam to release completely (again, following manufacturer’s directions) before opening the pressure cooker lid.
I’m new to pressure cooking. I made these last night. It was good! A little overdone IMHO but yummy! I’ve made a video of your recipe: https://youtu.be/0_o7BOaTlm8
I just bought a Electric Pressure Cooker. I see all these recipes for Instant Pot. W hat is the difference between the 2. Can you use a recipe for a Instant Pot in a Electric Pressure Cooker
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Also do you use the giggles on the top when pressuring beans?
Do beans have more gas in them cooked in the pre assure cooker with out pre soaking ?
Could be old beans. Sometimes, if they are not fresh they simply won’t cook. Other idea is that you put something into the liquid that caused them to toughen up during cooking. To avoid this cook them well in just water and only add other ingredients when you’re done cooking the beans to your desired texture
We have an old school pressure cooker given to me by a friend. We tried to cook pinto beans in it for the first time last night. Left the beans on for 45 min and they weren’t soft enough. Added more water and put on for 30 min more. Still not soft enough. Any idea what we might have done wrong. Burner was set to med high then to high later on.
I hope you like it when you make it! The recipe is just for the beans, in the photo I served it on top of a mixture of corn and sauteed bell peppers!
I can’t wait to go to my moms and try this on her pressure cooker but does that picture have corn in it? I didn’t see corn in the recipe? I am curious now
Nice!
Making this yummy recipe today in my InstantPot electric pressure cooker. I love this device – it makes pressure cooking so very, very easy. (I don’t get anything for talking about this appliance — I just love it, is all.)
Thank you!
Just eyeballed a lb +/- of pinto and filled halfway with water. High heat to pressure seal, reduced to low heat keeping light steam for 60 min, turned off heat and left it alone for 20-30 min. Added bacon grease and seasoning stirred against side of pot mashing most and behold; quick no
soak tender delicious refrained beans.