The Answer to Perfect Black Beans: Your Instant Pot
This delicious, no-soak Instant Pot black beans recipe is the best you will find. This black beans recipe turns out tender, and is easy to eat with anything: as a side, in Black Bean Soup, or even all on their own. If you’ve never made homemade black beans before, this recipe is here to save the day and possibly even change your life.
How Long Should I Cook Black Beans in the Instant Pot?
There are so many methods to cooking black beans, but none is easier than using the Instant Pot. Typically, homemade black beans take a lot of time to soak and then cook and the flavor of canned black beans just never measures up. Because the Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, the beans don’t need to soak prior to cooking them this way. You simply mix the ingredients together, secure the lid, and allow the Instant Pot to work its magic. Our method takes a simple 50 minutes total and that includes preparation time, cook time, and time to allow the Instant Pot to depressurize before serving it up.
The best part about using the Instant Pot? The process is hands-off! You can start the recipe, walk away, and come back once your beans are cooked without having to watch a pot on the stove to adjust the heat or make sure it doesn't boil over. With the Instant Pot you will wonder why you ever bothered with any other method of cooking beans before.
What is the Ratio of Black Beans to Water?
When cooking our Instant Pot black beans, we like to add a mixture of water and stock (either chicken or vegetable if you are keeping your black beans vegetarian) to really amp up the flavor of the beans. You can find many different ratios of black beans to water, but the one we recommend (and that we’ve found works the best) is a mixture of the following:
2 1/2 cups (1 pound) dried black beans
4 cups chicken or vegetable stock
1 cup water
It’s important that you rinse the beans before mixing them with the broth, water and other ingredients to wash away any debris that might have gotten packaged accidentally with them. With this combination of broth and water, your black beans will come out extra flavorful, especially once you add in the seasoning and ingredients.
What Makes This the Best Black Beans Recipe? Our Homemade Taco Seasoning, Of Course!
It’s no secret that our homemade taco seasoning is a standout in so many of our recipes, and this one is no different. We love the combination of flavors on just about everything, including these black beans? The mix of spices on the beans really just help bring out all those tasty flavors and elevate this black beans recipe beyond anything you could ever get out of a can. It’s a real game changer.
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Put Those Perfectly Tender, Homemade Black Beans to Good Use!
We suggest serving these taco seasoning spiked beans up with one of these delicious dishes!
And for those of you that don’t have an Instant Pot we have even more black bean recipes you can enjoy with or without the pressure cooker:
See, We Told You This Was an Easy Black Beans Recipe!
There are so many ways to enjoy black beans, and now that you have the Instant Pot method down (the best method in our opinion) we are dying to see your homemade black beans in action! Snap a photo of your Instant Pot black beans and how you chose to eat them or serve them up. Tag us on Instagram using @themodernproper and #themodernproper. Happy eating!
