Pressure Cooker - Cooking Times - Legumes, Beans and Peas
Pressure cooker - cooking times - legumes, beans and peas © kvalifood.com
Cooking times for beans and legumes in a pressure cooker.
Adzuki
- Soaking: No
- Cooking time: 8 minutes
Anasazi
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 8 minutes
Black beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Black eyed peas
- Soaking: No
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Kidney beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Cranberry beans, Borlotti beans, shell beans, Christmas beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Flageolet
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Fava beans, broad beans, Windsor beans, English beans
- Soaking: min. 8 hours or overnight
- Cooking time: 4 minutes (Cook on low setting. Natural release)
Garbanzo, chickpeas, ceci
- Soaking: min. 8 hours or overnight
- Cooking time: 14 minutes
Great Northern, white kidney beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Lentils, green, French, Spanish, brown, dal lentils, black beluga lentils (Colors range from green, brown, white, yellow, red, coral, black.)
- Soaking: No
- Cooking time: 7 minutes (Easily turns mushy if overcooked)
Kidney, rajma, Mexican beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Lima beans, butter beans, Madagascar beans
- Soaking: min. 8 hours or overnight
- Cooking time: 3-4 minutes (Cook on low setting. Natural release)
Mung beans, mungo, mung pea, green gram
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 9 minutes (Cook on low setting.)
Navy beans, Yankee beans, pearl haricot, Boston navy beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Dried peas
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 6 minutes
Peanuts, green/raw, shelled or in shell
- Soaking: No
- Cooking time: 45-50 minutes with a 45-minute cool-down in brine
Yellow and green peas, split peas
- Soaking: No
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Pigeon peas, gandules
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 9 minutes
Pink, chili beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Rattlesnake beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 8 minutes
Pinto beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Red beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Runner beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 12 minutes
Small red beans, Mexican red beans
- Soaking: min. 4 hours
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Soybeans: beige or black
- Soaking: min. 8 hours or overnight
- Cooking time: 35 minutes
See Also
Pressure Cooker - Cooking Times - Vegetables
Pressure Cooker - Cooking Times - Meat
Chickpeas - Fast and Easy Cooking in Pressure Cooker - No Soak Method
Pressure Cooker Chicken Stock - Quick and Easy Chicken Stock
