Name: Instant Pot Beans
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 pound dried pinto beans (or your favorite beans); 1 large Onion (peeled and cut in half); 2 large bay leaves; 6 cups water

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Simple, delicious and perfect for self isolation, you can have a perfect pot of beans ready to go in under an hour.

Instant Pot Beans

The basics of this recipe can be adapted to any kind of bean. I'll list all my favorites below

Servings people

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Ingredients

1 pound dried pinto beans or your favorite beans
1 large Onion peeled and cut in half
2 large bay leaves
6 cups water

Instructions

Grab your instant pot and get ready to roll
Rinse the pinto beans and pick out any stones or unwanted beans
Add the water, beans, the onion and bay leaves to the instant pot
Set the Instant Pot to manual and cook on high pressure for 25 minutes. Be sure the vent is set to sealing. Feel free to adjust the cook time based on how you like your beans - I always go with al dente, so if you want softer, add 5 minutes
Turn off the Instant Pot and let the pressure release naturally for 15 minutes, release any additional pressure and remove the lid
Drain the beans and stop the cooking with cold water
Enjoy the beans in everything from a salad to chili to Mexican dishes
You can make any beans with this method - just change up the cooking time as follows: Black beans - 20 minutes large lima beans - 25 minutes Garbanzo beans - 35 minutes Small red beans - 20 minutes