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Instant Pot Beans (Brown Beans)

Chichi Uguru
Honey beans porridge made in the instant pot is one of the best brown beans recipes you need to have in your recipe collection. The instant pot is a game changer when it comes to cooking food especially tough foods some meats and beans fall in that category. This is a no fail Nigerian beans porridge recipe. Stick around with me so I can show you how to make it in your instant pot.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine African
Servings 8 as a side dish

Ingredients

  • 4 cups beans (picked clean of dirt and rinsed)
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 ½ cups palm oil (you can use less if you prefer)
  • 3 medium onions (chopped and divided into 3 parts see note 2)
  • 2 Tsp pepper flakes
  • 1 Tbsp bouillon powder (divided see note 3)

Instructions

Hybrid method:

  • Prepare pepper sauce by sauteing Onions, and pepper in a sauce pan. then add 1/2 Tbsp of bouillon powder. Cook till onions become transluscent and fragrant.
    collage showing onions being sauteed in palm oil
  • Transfer rinsed beans into the IP inner pot, add water, Pepper sauce, remainder of onions and bouillon mediumowder. stir to combine.
    Collage showing brown beans in the instant pot, additon of water and bouillon powder
  • Cover instant pot, turl valve to sealing postion, select manual pressure cook, set timer to 40 mins and let the IP do its magic. After the cycle is complete, do a quick pressure release. Open the IP only when the float valve is down. stir beans. taste and adjust with extra salt if needed.
    Collage showing Instant pot timer and cooked beans

One Pot method:

  • Turn on the saute mode of the IP, add palm oil, saute onions and pepper for 5 to 8 mins. Pour in the water, deglaze the pot if some onions got stuck while cooking. Then add the rinsed beans, the rest of the onions and the bouillon powder. Sir to combine and proceed with step 3 above.

Notes

  1. You can use less palm oil than I did in this recipe.
  2. Use 2 onions  for the african pepper sauce and 1 for the cooking.
  3. 1/2 tablespoon of bouillon for th pepper sauce and the other during cooking
  4. Please see blog post for more tips.