VIDEO: Cooking beans in a pressure cooker

Fast cooking of dried beans

If you have bean salad or bean soup made from dried white Beans you should soak them overnight, even if you cook the beans in a pressure cooker, because the beans are so tender because they are so sufficient water be able to record.

1. Soak the beans for 24 hours. Pour off the soaking water and wash the beans.
2. roast meat Depending on the recipe, add bacon, onions and garlic in the pressure cooker, add the beans and add at least three cups of stock and spices such as thyme.
3. Close the lid and heat the pot. If the valve on your pot doesn't close automatically, let some steam out and then close it.
4. Let the pressure cooker heat up on level 2 and cook the beans for 15 minutes. Let the pot cool down. Do not open it until the valve indicates that there is no more pressure. Process the beans further depending on the recipe.


Dried white beans - a delicious recipe

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If you haven't soaked the beans, you'll need to cook them for 40 to 45 minutes. In this case, however, plenty of water should be added to the pot. You can also let the pot cool down quickly by running cold water over it. In that case, you should cook the soaked beans for 20 minutes.

Prepare fresh pulses in the pressure cooker

1. Wash the beans, remove the threads and cut them as usual.
2. Fry onions, bacon and garlic in the pressure cooker if the recipe calls for these ingredients. Add the fresh beans. Depending on the recipe, peeled and halved are also suitable potatoes.
3. Add at least three cups of stock or water and proceed as with the dried beans. The cooking time is only eight minutes.

In general, you need a minimum amount of liquid in the pressure cooker. This varies depending on the size of the pressure cooker - it is best to refer to the instructions for your pot.