Instant Pot Pinto Bean Soup

This is an easy homemade Instant Pot pinto bean soup recipe packed with flavor. Like our other pressure cooker bean soup, it can be vegetarian loaded with vegetables and there’s no soak required to start from scratch. Use dry pinto beans to make this healthy one pot meal.

If you’re looking for an easy and healthy pressure cooker soup this flavorful Instant Pot pinto bean soup should be on the menu this week! One of our favorite Instant Pot recipes. Perfect for any time of year. NO soaking beans required! (affiliate links present)

Instant Pot Bean Soup

This is just one of our favorite Instant Pot beans recipes that’s super cheap to make. Starting with a bag of legumes, either one type of a 15 bean mix is fun too. This one is specifically using pintos so the cook time in the recipe card below will reflect that.

You can use dry or canned like we did with our Instant Pot black bean soup actually, the timing would be much shorter with a can. It doesn’t matter what brand of pot you have, as long as it is electric with high pressure it will work.

Instant Pot Pinto Bean Soup

Seriously, I really just made this up on the fly. Ended up being thrilled that it came out so yummy the first time around!! You see I found some bags of dry pinto beans at the Dollar Store and I figured I could make something out of them for dinner.

I saw I had celery, carrots, onions, garlic and chicken stock. So I went from there. My family loved it so much I made it in my Crock Pot Express the following week too. Pinto soup was served to me at a restaurant before but had never made it myself. 

Pressure cooking soups are game changers. I made this pressure cooker bean soup earlier this month using Northern Beans. Amazing is all I have to. It is similar to this recipe though I packed it with more veggies and of course used pinto beans.

Ninja Foodi Pinto Bean Soup Recipe

You can make a pot of beans in your Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Crock Pot Express in about 50 minutes. Just throw them in with some water, add salt, include a ham hock if you want, and lock the lid. I love the fact that there is no soaking required.

Is it better to soak dry beans before cooking in an Instant Pot?

You can do both actually but most people still recommend that you soak. The difference is the timing and also you can digest them better if you soak overnight to begin with. I have a whole list of different legumes listed on this Instant Pot cooking times for beans printable here.

How much water do you need to cook beans in Instant Pot?

Water to bean ratio is 3 to 1, you do not want to run out of liquid or disaster will occur. If so the dreaded burn notice will show up on the front screen and cooking will stop entirely. When done, natural release is best at least for 5 minutes or they will likely break and not stay whole.

Instant Pot Bean Soup Ingredients

We used the same bag to make our No soak Instant Pot baked beans from scratch in 40 minutes. Here is what you need. Of course you could really amp up the amount of vegetables you include too. The more the marrier.

Instant Pot split pea soup recipe takes about 25 minutes total using dry beans, add a ham hock for added flavor. Note: Cook time for beans will vary just slightly depending on how tender you like them. We find this timing to be best for us.

What is the best way to cook dry pinto beans?

I highly suggest that you do it this way. You first get them tender and then the second step is to make the soup itself. You cannot do it all at the same time or the other ingredients will become mushy. Once you get the hang of how it is done you can repeat the first cooking step and make something else with them from there.