Instant Pot Pinto Beans. Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®) and select Saute function. About these Instant Pot Pinto Beans. An important thing to remember is that dry beans absorb a lot of water.

Learn how to cook pinto beans from dry in your Instant Pot, with cook times for both soaked and unsoaked beans. Ever since I first made Instant Pot black beans, I've been hooked on cooking beans in my Instant Pot pressure cooker. Beans are a good source of vegetarian protein, and cooking. You can have Instant Pot Pinto Beans using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Instant Pot Pinto Beans

You need 1 lb of dry pinto beans.
It's 1 Tbs of cumin seeds.
Prepare 2 Tbs of each ground cumin, chili powder, onion powder, garlic.
It's 2 tsp of each salt, pepper, smoked paprika.
You need 2 of bay leaves.
It's 8 cups of water (or vegetable stock).

Sort and rinse the beans: Sort the pinto beans, removing any broken beans, stones, and dirt clods. Put the beans in a strainer and rinse under running water. But aside from all the monetary and health benefits, these beans just taste really, really good. This no-soak recipe uses dried beans cooked in the pressure cooker.

Instant Pot Pinto Beans instructions

Put all ingredients into Instant Pot, mix.
Choose bean/chili setting.
Set pressure on high, set time for 1 hour.

These pinto beans are full of rich flavor, creamy and are great to serve as a main dish with a fresh salad and cornbread. Instant Pot pinto beans are delicious, simple and easy! How to cook dry pinto beans in the Instant Pot, and there is no pre-soaking required. Program the Pressure Cooker: Close the Instant Pot lid, and set the steam release valve to the sealing position. The superior flavor and texture of this recipe comes from starting with dry pinto beans.