Homemade Instant Pot pinto bean soup recipe with dry beans. Like our easy pressure cooker bean soup, it can be vegetarian loaded with vegetables to make this healthy one pot meal.
If you’re looking for an easy and healthy pressure cooker soup this flavorful 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)
Pressure Cooker Pinto Bean Soup Recipe
This is like our Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans recipe that is super cheap starting with a bag of legumes. This time we are adding more broth so it becomes more like a meal vs. a side dish.
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.
If you are new to pressure cooking we have a lot of easy one pot meal recipes for you here. To begin with let’s start with a few basic tips:
- Make sure to Bookmark our InstaPot recipes page. We add new ones each week!
- Then PRINT this —–> Instant Pot cooking times cheat sheet that will help you understand how long meat, vegetables and beans take to cook in your pressure cooker.
- I HIGHLY recommend you buy this non stick pot.
- You should know how to deglaze a pressure cooker after sautéing but it won’t have as many issues with this better liner.
For reference, this is the model I have (a 6 quart) and use for all recipe creations.
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.
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.
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.
Ingredients
- Instant Pot, Ninja Foodi or Crock Pot Express – I have them all
- Pinto beans
- dry in the bag
- or use a mix like we did with our Pressure cooker chili with dry beans
- and you’ll need water for the initial cooking of the beans
- Chicken broth – or vegetable broth
- Carrots
- Celery
- Canned diced chiles
- Diced tomatoes – I like petite diced
- Could add bacon bits or saute some diced bacon and add in
If you’re making this pinto bean soup in your Crock Pot Express the only real difference is that you use the brown button instead of saute. The rest are the same buttons and work perfect.
Time needed: 7 minutes
Instant Pot Pinto Bean Soup Recipe
- Soften dry beans
Put water and dry beans in your Instant Pot or Crock Pot Express pot, or Ninja Foodi. Close steam valve, and push the bean button and set time to 60 minutes. Allow to naturally release for 5-10 minutes and then drain water, put beans aside.
- Canned beans
If you’d rather use canned beans you can skip the 60 minute step above. Rather, just drain and rinse beans in the can and move on to step 3. This will cut cook time from over an hour to closer to 15 minutes.
- Saute
Push the saute button on your Instant Pot or brown button on your CPE and melt your butter. Then add your diced onions and spices and cook until onions start to soften. Turn pot off.
- Cook
Add all other ingredients into your pot, stir, and put lid back on.
Close steam valve and push the soup button, high setting for 7 minutes followed by a quick release. Serve!! I like it with some parmesan cheese on top too.
I highly suggest that you use a pressure cooker. There is no need to pre soak ahead of time this way. You just rinse and then add with 3x the amount of water and in less than an hour they are perfectly tender.
Once you try this, look at our other Instant Pot soup recipes, you’ve gotta’ try some of our other under 20 minutes electric pressure cooker recipes.
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.
Instant Pot Pinto Bean Soup
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
Ingredients
- 2 c pinto beans, dry, 16 oz.
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 stalks celery, or more, diced
- 2 carrots, or more, sliced
- 1 tbsp butter
- 32 oz chicken broth
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic salt
- 4 oz chiles, diced
- 1 can diced tomatoes, 14.5 oz
- 6 c water
Instructions
- Put water and dry beans in your Instant Pot or Crock Pot Express pot, close steam valve, and push the bean button and set time to 60 minutes.
- Allow to naturally release for 5-10 minutes and then drain water, put beans aside.
- Push the saute button on your Instant Pot or brown button on your CPE and melt your butter, then add your diced onions and spices and cook until onions start to soften. Turn pot off.
- Add all other ingredients into your pot, stir, and put lid back on.
- Close steam valve and push the soup button, high setting for 7 minutes.
- Serve!! I like it with some parmesan cheese on top too.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Fabulous recipe! My go- to for comfort food! I do make my pinto beans in the instant pot first with another recipe with more spices, but it’s excellent! & I get so many compliments! 😊
so glad