Electric Pressure Cooker Green Beans

Using canned greened beans instead of fresh makes it possible to cook the green beans and potatoes together.

Electric pressure cooker green beans.

Bring the water and beans to a boil using the electric pressure cooker s sauté function on high. Saute the garlic and chopped onions until the onions in the pressure cooker with the bacon until they are tender. Add 1 tbsp 15ml peanut oil or olive oil in the pot. Add the chicken broth seasoned salt pepper cajun seasoning and sugar.

Cook at high pressure for 1 minute manual or pressure cook mode in an instant pot. Ensure to coat the oil over the whole bottom of the pot. Spread the beans out on top of the basket then sprinkle with the salt and pepper. Set your instant pot or electric pressure cooker to 4 minutes on high pressure.

Add the beans to the electric pressure cooker and cover with 6 cups of water. Why this recipe works. Everything in the pot. However if you prefer you can fry up regular bacon and crumble and slice up a yellow onion instead.

If you want this to be a dump and go recipe use cocktail onions and bacon bits. At the end of the cook time release all pressure immediately by turning the valve to venting. Remember the onions and green beans will also be releasing very flavorful water. These remind me of sunday dinner at mom s house.

Pressure cooker green beans. Electric pressure cooker fresh green beans notes. Put a vegetable steaming basket in the pressure cooker and pour in 1 cup of water. Saute for 1 minute.

A pressure cooker is the only safe way to can green beans and other low acid vegetables at home. There s a time and place for al dente hericot vert that french for barely cooked green beans but these pressure cooker green beans are not that at all. Add in minced garlic sauté for roughly 30 seconds. Sauté garlic green beans.

Toss until coated in bacon grease. Place bacon in the bottom of a pressure cooker and cook over medium high heat turning occasionally until evenly browned about 8 minutes. If you are using fresh beans from the garden you will want to wash and trim your beans beforehand. Do not let the garlic burn.

Killing spoilage organisms on green beans requires a water temperature of 240 degrees fahrenheit which is well above the 212 degrees fahrenheit where water normally boils. Green beans actually cook in much less time in the pressure cooker typically just a few minutes or less but the extended cook time of 25 minutes is to allow the flavors to really meld together and for the beans to get good and soft giving them that consistency of having simmered all day. Cook on high pressure for 4 minutes. If you like your green beans soft cook 5 minutes.

I often eat just steamed green beans for dinner by. Pressure cook for 1 minute with a quick pressure release. Lock the lid on the cooker.