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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.
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What is the max amount of beans in a 6qt electric pressure cooker?
just finished this receipt on my electric pressure cooker. Put it on my highest setting which is chicken /meat setting for 40 minutes are you are right perfect pinto beans
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I have a 6 quart pressure cooker. I think it would be fine to put a ham bone in there! Would add so much flavor!
How many quarts I your pressure cooker? And can I put ham bone in while too?
How do I cook soup beans in a electric pressure cooker? Do I use plain ole oil or lard?
When I first bought my pressure cooker I didn’t know which one to buy. I didn’t even know where to begin. I had to use http://www.cookwithpressure.com/ reviews. But now I’m glad I bought one and have been experimenting with recipes. I will be giving this a try!
I have an electric pressure cooker should I allow the steam to release naturally or open the release valve manually?
When pressure cooking I seek out recipes but follow the cooking instructions that came with my pressure cooker. My cooker suggests soaking certain beans (pintos being one). Cook them for 7 minutes after allowing the pressure to build up. Perfect every time.
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On the pressure cooker pinto beans. Do u soak they over night.?.?.?.
Mine is a stove top one. I don’t know the specifics of your pressure cooker. Maybe try a small batch according to their directions and see how it works?
I have an electric pressure cooker and the manual said 2-3 minutes for pinto beans. Now I’m wondering which time is right.
Do you know if this recipe would, with quantities appropriately scaled down to fit, work in a microwave pressure cooker?
To quote another recipe:
“Cooking time begins when the pressure regulator begins to rock. Reduce the heat to medium low or low, maintaining a slow, steady rocking motion and cook 50 minutes. If the pressure regulator is allowed to rock vigorously, excess steam will escape. Therefore, too much liquid will evaporate and food may scorch. Never leave a pressure cooker unattended at high heat settings. It could boil dry, overheat, and cause damage to the pressure cooker and stove top.”