Cooking Beans in Less than 10 Minutes with a Pressure Cooker

Learn how to cook amazingly fast and delicious beans by using a modern and safe pressure cooker.

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• cooking
• vegetarian
• beans
• pressure
• cooker
• food
• health

[NancyToday]

I cook mine for 20 minutes in the original water.  But they do have gas. they are nice and soft when they come out...that's soybeans.

[TheVQ]

@NancyToday Soybeans do take at least 20 minutes. Most of the other beans such as pinto, black, navy and kidney take about 6 minutes at pressure.

Thanks for your comment.

[TheVQ]

Adding spices and herbs to the beans in the pressure cooker works well. I do this quite often to add flavor. If I am making black or pinto beans, I will often add cumin seeds, chipotle chile or smoked paprika, onion and garlic and almost always add a piece of kombu seaweed for its flavor and the fact that it might make the beans more digestible. If I cook white beans, I add a bay leaf, thyme sprigs, garlic and onion. Use your imagination and your pantry. Yum.

[TheVQ]

You can use your pressure canner for cooking beans although it is likely aluminum which I choose not to cook in. It is also very large which makes it inefficient for cooking a smaller amount of beans. You also need to be concerned about any bean skins getting into the pressure valve which could cause pressure build up issues. You can to it if you want to. Let us know how it turns out.

[TheVQ]

ndktube

Thanks for your comment. If I remember, I soak my beans the night before but that rarely happens.

I agree about not wanting to spend much longer than the 10 minutes for cooking. Most beans are actually done in about 6 minutes at pressure, and then the time that it takes for the pressure to come down.

Garbanzo beans take about 12 to 14 minutes at pressure but it sure beats an hour and a half on the stove top.

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[pokeythepatriot777]

What is the difference between using a pressure cooker and using the same pressure canner you use for canning?? Can you use the canner for cooking beans too? thx

[SolangeKindermann]

I could not live without a pressure cooker. I use it at least 3 times a week. Brazilian girl.

[yeahitsk]

Hey thanks for posting the video. I bought a pressure cooker because I want to prepare and eat more beans as part of a healthy eating strategy (heart disease runs in our family) and I don't usually have the time for traditional preparation methods for dried beans. Nor did I know how to use the pressure cooker- until now!

[aseglkj]

GILF.

[ndktube]

I soak 1 cup of beans, enough for two people added to some dish, plus some, the night before. Then cook in the pressure cooker in five or six mins next morning. Easy. Takes a few mins for the unit to reach temp so 10 mins is about right. If I had to cook beans for any longer I wouldn't bother.

Good tip about only having to wait for the small valve to come up (yellow button in your case), and not having to wait for the steam to start releasing, to start timing. Thanks.