Instant Pot Fresh Green Beans Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is the ratio of beans to water in Instant Pot? ›

Place the beans in the Instant Pot and cover with plenty of cold water (6-8 cups for 1 pound of beans). Select the Pressure Cook setting at high pressure for 5 minutes.

Place 1 pound of dried beans with 8 cups water in your Instant Pot. Cook on high pressure for the directed time. Once cook time has released, let the pressure release naturally for at least 20 minutes before trying to do a quick release of pressure.

So the next time you're boiling green beans, take a moment to taste one before declaring them cooked. If they taste more like grass than vegetable, give them another minute or two in the pot. Same thing for any other vegetable you're eating cooked.

One advantage of pickling your green beans is that they'll need less time to process; 20 minutes is about how long to pressure-can green beans, but processing pickled green beans in a water-bath canner takes only about 5 minutes.

In a large pot, add 6 cups of water for each pound (2 cups) of dry beans. Heat to boiling; boil for 2–3 minutes. Remove from heat, cover, and soak for at least 1 hour.

The electric pressure cooker is a bean-cooking dream. A “rapid soak” of just one minute at high pressure eliminates the overnight soak, and an average cook time of 10 minutes for most beans means that you can have a fresh pot in less than an hour.

Cook low and slow—patience is key. To cook on the stove, bring the pot of beans (soaked or unsoaked, with olive oil, salt, and any seasonings plus 2 to 3 inches of liquid covering them) to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat so that your beans are barely but steadily simmering and cover with the lid.

When properly cooked, green beans should still have a crisp texture, and a vibrant, bright green color. As discussed above, overcooked green beans can be identified by their drab, olive-green color and their mushy texture. Overcooking can also cause nutrient loss.

Don't overcook them!

Nothing is worse than a mushy, overcooked green bean. Crisp and slightly tender beans is the goal. To achieve this, taste a bean or two during the cooking process. If it is too crispy for you, keep cooking, testing another green bean in a minute or two.

On a cooking note, regarding tough green beans, you may be undercooking them.

How long do you pressure quart green beans? ›

Ladle boiling water over beans-again leaving 1 inch head space. Wipe rims and adjust 2 piece caps. Process quarts for 25 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. **Shouldyou wish to use pints use 1/2 t salt and process 20 minutes at 10 pounds pressure.

I am sorry but it is not safe to waterbath green beans. They need to be pressure canned. If you did it and didn't get sick you are very lucky. Botulism is nothing to fool around with.

Place rinsed beans in a large cooking pan. Cover with 3 cups of water per 1 cup of beans. Use 10 cups for a 1 pound bag.

Get to know the golden ratio

For drip coffee brewing — which encompasses most home coffeemakers, bulk brewers and pour-overs — Helfen says that the ratio of 60 grams of coffee to one liter of water, or roughly 1:17, is the one most commonly used by coffee pros (and is often referred to as “the golden ratio”).

Coffee's golden ratio is 1:18 (1 gram of coffee to every 18 grams of water). If you want a stronger cup, use a ratio of 1:15 or if you want a lighter cup, use 1:18. But somewhere between 15 to 18 grams of water to every gram of coffee is most common.

You will most often hear that the best ratios of coffee beans to water is somewhere between 1:15 and 1:18, but this is not always the case. The US Brewers Cup of 2014 was won with a man using 1:13. While 1:15 through 1:18 may be the most preferred option by most coffee brewers, those ratios are not law.