Easy Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans

Homemade pressure cooker pinto beans no soak instructions are here. They make a great side dish for Cinco de Mayo or any time of year. Use charro beans inside burrito bowls for a great meal! Great way of how to cook beans in your pressure cooker, Instant Pot, Crockpot Express or Ninja Foodi.

Ninja Foodi Pinto Beans

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 cook dried pinto beans in Instant Pot or other brand of high pressure machine we have instructions for you!

With the Foodi you are going to use the lid that is not attached to make these super tender to your liking. Then add them to your taco Tuesday buffet or just make some quick burritos for dinner. They can be doctored up with chiles and/or red pepper flakes to make them spicy for a Mexican feast or left as is just simple with your meal.

Instant Pot Pinto Beans No Soak

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 pressure cooker bean soup with them once they’re as tender as you’d like them to be.

Starting with dry beans allows you to control the sodium levels and to know exactly what is in the dish 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 which doesn’t always add the best flavor.

Ingredients

• 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 if you are going to do the second step to add lots of flavor
• Diced chiles I add also once they have become tender for wow
• Onions and garlic too
• You can add some chili powder or red pepper flakes for heat if you like
• Bacon bits are optional as well

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

How to Cook Dry Pinto Beans in a Pressure Cooker

1. Always wash your dry beans to remove any dirt or debris (small rocks may be hidden).
2. 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)
3. Twice as much water is needed for the amt. of dry beans you’re cooking
4. Use this Ninja Foodi cooking times sheet or Instant Pot cooking times for beans printable charts to determine cook time (they’re very similar)
5. Use high pressure
6. 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 and eat or doctor up (like we did here) or you can use them as the base of our Instant Pot pinto bean soup which can be served as an entire meal.

Homemade Pressure Cooker Pinto Beans

We do have instructions on how to make a Pinto Beans in Crockpot Recipe so they are tender as well. Those take a night to soak + 8 to 10 hours to get tender. MUCH longer than this method but they both work depending on what your time frame looks like that day.

If you use other spices to make charro cooked 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.

How long does it take to cook pinto beans in a Ninja Foodi?

There is no need to soak beforehand but that will cut the time quite a bit, to 20 min. vs. 60. Of course if you have a strong aversion to not doing so then go ahead but this is faster and the end result is just as tender. It doesn’t matter what brand you use to make these with the directions below with the high pressure function.

If you are wanting to try to make these on the stove or otherwise and compare the two, this is how long do beans take to cook in all the different ways…..

• Rinse your dry beans (to remove debris and dirt), put them into your pressure cooker.
  • Add your water (or broth if you wish to add more flavor). Close pressure cooker lid (one not attached on the Ninja Foodi), close steam valve.
• Set mode to pressure high for 60 minutes. Do a quick release.
• Drain beans and put beans back into your pot.
• Add all other ingredients and stir together.
• Close your pressure cooker lid again and set to high pressure for 20 minutes. Allow to naturally release steam for 10 minutes, then release remaining.
  • If you want more liquid in your beans before serving add a bit more broth

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

To transition these into baked beans you would need another 25 minutes or so to cook in the sauce once they are tender. A bit more time but so worth it for sure.

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