How Long Do You Cook Pinto Beans In Pressure Cooker

No need to soak your pinto beans overnight or cook them forever when you own a pressure cooker or Instant Pot you can make them from scratch while you are cooking the rest of your dinner. So are you ready to learn how to make pressure cooker pinto beans? Join me in the bistro kitchen!

No need to soak your pinto beans just put them in your Instant Pot or pressure cooker and you have the best, soft pinto beans ever. A great side dish, to serve with rice or use in your taco recipes or salads. Want to try? Visit fastfoodbistro.com for the full recipe and instructions

Easy Pressure Cooker Vegetable Recipe

You can of course 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 big 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 from a bag of dried pinto beans than you get in a can of beans.

Now dried beans normally take a lot of time to make them editable but enter our trusted Instant Pot and it takes a fraction of the time.

Do You Need To Soak Dried Beans Before Cooking In An Pressure Cooker?

In this recipe, there is no need to soak the beans you can cook them straight away. You only need to wash the beans.

If you have time you can pre-soak dried beans between 4-6 hours in water. Add 2 to 3 times the volume of the 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 between 1 to 2 hours to get soft beans.

The choice is yours to choose what fits you best.

Instant Pot Pinto Beans Ingredients

To make these pinto beans you need the following ingredients and put them on the grocery shopping list:

Dried pinto beans
Onion
Garlic
Cumin
Chili powder
Dark soy sauce
Hot sauce
Water or vegetable stock
Fresh pepper

How To Make Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans

It is very easy to make pinto beans from scratch and it is really cheap because you buy dried pinto beans in big bags.

Start with finely chopping the onion and mincing the garlic. Set your Instant Pot to Sauté on 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 soft and translucent.

Then add the cumin, hot sauce, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, and salt. Stir for a couple of seconds.

Add water and stir it through. Wash the pinto beans in a colander 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, set the valve to the sealing position.

Select Pressure cooker or Manual button and cook on High Pressure for 50-60 minutes.

When the cooking time is done let the pressure cooker naturally release for 15 minutes. Release any remaining pressure.

Open Instant Pot and stir. Serve immediately.

Why Are My Pinto Beans Still Hard?

Depending on the number of pinto beans in the pressure cooker it can take more time to soften the pinto beans.

When your pinto beans are not completely soft just close the Instant Pot and cook on high pressure for another 10 minutes.

You can also leave the lid on the pot and let the beans sit for 1 or 2 hours. They will soften as well.

How To Store Pinto Beans

You can store these Instant Pot pinto beans in various ways and have the following options:

Refrigerator – you can store pinto beans in the fridge. Let them cool completely before proceeding. Put them in a leak-free and airtight food container or 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 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 various ways to reheat them:

Instant Pot – you can use your pressure cooker or Instant Pot to reheat pinto beans. If they are frozen put the frozen pinto beans in the pot and add 1/3 cup water. Close the lid and secure, turn the valve to the sealing position and cook on Pressure Cooking, Steam or Manual for 8 minutes. If your pinto beans are not frozen set the time to 5 minutes and natural release for 5 minutes then quick release
Dutch oven – another way to reheat pinto beans is to put them in a Dutch oven add 1/3 to 1/2 cup water and bring to a simmer and let the beans warm through in 5 minutes

Serve Pinto Beans With

If you make pinto beans you can find a lot of great recipes to serve them with like:

Instant Pot Long grain rice
Pulled pork
Mashed potatoes
Instant Pot whole chicken
Pressure cooker boiled potatoes
Pork chops

More Easy Vegetable Recipes

If you are looking for more vegetable recipes take a look at these:

Instant Pot spinach
Mashed cauliflower
Fast broccoli
Air Fryer vegetable mix
Cheesy green beans
Honey garlic carrots
Roasted cauliflower
Garlic mushrooms

I hope you give this easy Instant Pot pinto beans recipe a try!

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Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans

Yield: 6

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 55 minutes

Additional Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

16 oz dried pinto beans washed and picked over
1 large onion chopped
1 glove garlic
4 cups water or vegetable stock
2 tablespoons olive oil
2-3 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon Chili Powder
1 tablespoon Cumin
1½ tsp garlic powder
1 tablespoon hot sauce
Fresh ground pepper

Instructions

Finely chop the onion and mince the garlic
Set the Instant Pot to sauté on high. Once the display says Hot, add vegetable oil
Add onion and garlic and sauté for about 3 minutes, until soft and translucent
Then add the cumin, hot sauce, chili powder, cumin, salt, and garlic powder. Stir for a couple of seconds
Add water and stir. Wash the pinto beans and put them in the Instant Pot
Then add the soy sauce and black pepper
Press the "Cancel" button on your pressure cooker. Close the lid and secure, set the valve to the sealing position
Select Pressure cooker or Manual button and cook on High Pressure for 50 minutes
When the cooking time is done let the pressure cooker naturally release for 20 minutes. Release any remaining pressure
Open Instant Pot and stir
Serve immediately

Notes

Instead of hot sauce you can also use or 2 chopped chipotle peppers and 1 teaspoon adobo sauce

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 176 Total Fat: 6g Saturated Fat: 1g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 4g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 660mg Carbohydrates: 25g Fiber: 8g Sugar: 2g Protein: 8g

Please note: Nutrition information is added for informational purposes only. It is possible it isn't completely accurate.