Easy Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans

Homemade pressure cooker pinto beans make a great side dish for Cinco de Mayo or any time of year. Use charro beans inside burrito bowls for a great meal! Works in your Instant Pot, Crockpot Express or Ninja Foodi.

• We’ve added it into our list of Ninja Foodi recipes too because that’s our new favorite appliance!

If you want to know how to make perfectly tender dried pinto beans we have instructions for you! Then add them to your taco Tuesday buffet or just make some quick burritos for dinner.

Talk about a great side dish or make burrito bowls with these pressure cooker pinto beans for a delicious dinner.

The possibilities are endless once you understand how to pressure cook dry beans. Bagged they are super cheap, you can make a ton at a time, and they feed a crowd for next to nothing. Keep them whole or mash to change their texture and consistency.

Then enjoy as you wish. You can even make a great bean soup with them once they’re as tender as you’d like them to be.

This way you can control the sodium levels too which is nice. Especially if you have high blood pressure you might be interested in learning how to do that. Canned foods can be quite high in salt for sure.

Ninja Foodi Pinto Beans

I never need to pre soak the beans ever again now that I have an Instant Pot and Ninja Foodi pressure cooker!

We have made a few recipes using dry beans so far like:

1. These pressure cooker refried beans
2. No soak Instant Pot baked beans have raving reviews
3. Instant Pot black beans is a great bean recipe used as a side dish to many Mexican recipes.
4. Our Instant Pot split pea soup recipe takes just 17 minutes start to finish

Now we’re ready with homemade pinto beans. You can call them charro beans too.

Cooking beans in a pressure cooker

Always wash your dry beans to remove any dirt or debris (small rocks may be hidden).

1. Timing depends on how soft you want your beans to be and how many you want to cook (I tend to stick with 2 c. dry beans at a time)
2. Twice as much water is needed for the amt. of dry beans you’re cooking
3. Use this Ninja Foodi cooking times sheet or Instant Pot cooking times for beans printable charts to determine cook time (they’re very similar)
4. Use high pressure
5. Allow pot to naturally release steam
   1. Check beans, if you’d like them softer you can easily add a bit more water and set it for another 10 min. or so to soften even more

Drain beans and eat or doctor up (like we did here) and continue cooking a dish like these pressure cooker pinto beans

What you’ll need to make homemade pressure cooker pinto beans:

• 2 cups of pinto beans
  • pressure cooking time below is for this amount
  • find pounds of beans in the rice aisle at the grocery store or online
• Cups of water or vegetable broth could be used
• Beef broth
• Diced chiles
• Onions and garlic
• Spices
• Bacon bits are optional

If you use other spices to make charro beans by all means add them in there too in the 2nd cooking step after the quick release. If you use more than 2 cups of dry beans you may want to increase 2nd pressure cook time to 30 minutes to 45 minutes.

• Timing is subjective because some like them much softer than others.

Then make our pressure cooker Mexican rice with these!