Instant Pot Black Bean Soup with Dried Beans (Cheap, Easy, & Flavorful!)

Hi everyone, Kristen here, as you know, I think homemade is best, but it doesn't have to be complicated. I love using my Instant Pot to make

dried

bean

s and

soup

. It makes the most delicious

soup

s with nuanced layered flavors in record time. Cooks

dried

bean

s quickly without soaking. So today we are going to combine those two things and we are going to make a delicious

black

bean soup with dried

black

beans

and this soup is made for pennies a serving and it is absolutely delicious. so let's start cooking the first thing we're going to do is sauté in our

instant

pot add about a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and let it heat up once the oil has heated up we're going to add some aromatics and today.

I'm using one finely chopped yellow onion, one large seated and chopped red bell pepper, two large finely chopped carrots, and two small jalapenos that I seated, removed the ribs, and chopped finely. You can use more or less to control the spiciness in the soup once the vegetables have softened add three cloves minced garlic 2 teaspoons smoked or regular paprika 1 tablespoon cumin and toast for about 30 to 60 seconds until your nose smells it. smell, we don't We don't want to burn the garlic or the spices, we're going to add two cups of water here and then, you know, every time we use the sauté function, we want to scrape up all the brown bits from the bottom of the inner pot that it will prevent a burn warning from happening there, it already smells so good here that the cumin, smoked paprika, garlic and jalapeño onions are building blocks for great flavor here and you really don't need to take the time to sauté all of these things, but it will deepen the flavors and amplify everything, especially toasting those spices, so it just takes a couple extra minutes and it makes a big difference in the flavor, so we're going to add 4 cups of low sodium chicken broth here that you can use. vegetable broth, if that's what you like, you want to make sure it's low sodium because we're cooking dry

beans

and the salt can interfere with the softening of our beans, there's a dried bay leaf in there and then I have a pound of black beans that I have rinsed and just sorted you want to look for stones in your beans I know it sounds crazy but you would be surprised that it can happen you definitely want to rinse them well to remove any dirt or residue, stir it, that's it, remember we are going to wait to season our soup with salt and after the soup pressure cooks so our beans become soft, place the lid on our

instant

pot, make sure the vent knob is pointing towards the seal, set the cooking time we are going to cook. 30 minutes on high pressure after the cooking time has elapsed, let the pressure release naturally on its own for at least 15 minutes.

It's very important any time you're making soup or dried beans, anything that has a lot of liquid inside your Instant Pot that you don't want. it will spit and possibly burn you through the vent knob. Here you also want to keep the beans intact and releasing the pressure naturally will allow this to happen. I do this to keep my meat tender and it also opens your Instant Pot. It smells really, really good in here, now you can serve this as is, it's thick, the beans are perfectly cooked in there, or you can transfer a little of your mixture here to a food processor or blender and blend until it's nice and smooth . just to add a little bit of creaminess to the soup that you want, you don't want to make more than three cups now if you were blending a um, blending the soup in a blender, make sure you take your little vent as the sprout part. remove the lid, break it off and put a tea towel over the blender that way the steam won't build up in the hot soup and the lid lifts off the blender and you have black bean puree all over the kitchen which won't be a lot of fun. , so I'm going to mash this here again.

That's optional. You don't have to puree any of the soup. If you don't want to, you want to add it back to your Instant Pot and now we have to do it. Let's finish our soup here, we want to add a little salt. We haven't salted our soup yet because we were cooking dried beans and salt can interfere with the softening of dried beans, so we waited until I pressured the cooks to add salt. I'm coming. to add about half a teaspoon of kosher salt use more less to taste and then to really finish this soup we're going to add the zest of one lime actually two limes that brightness will add a lot of fresh flavor. to our soup, just make sure you zest the lime before you open it and squeeze it, or I mean, it's almost impossible to get the zest out of a cut lime, so I'll add the juice, squeeze it well if you don't have a lime, you can cast it, but I'm telling you that the difference between having lime and not having lime is like having a good soup and then having a restaurant quality festar soup, that bit of fresh citrus flavor really stands out. on your palette and create all the flavors in your mouth.

I'm not kidding, now is the time to serve this. You can top your soup with some avocado. You can top it with a little chopped cilantro, a little chopped onion, a little diced tomato, a little fresh. Peak sour cream, even whatever you want, I'm going to go eat something here, I haven't even swallowed the bite yet and the lime zest just got in my mouth, I'm telling you, it makes a big difference, it's just fresh in there and it really makes the flavors come alive this soup is not too spicy at all i know you were thinking two jalapenos two teaspoons smoked paprika will give it a kick with the dried beans we really needed to add a lot of flavor and it worked perfectly to do that plus, I didn't add the seeds or ribs of the jalapenos to keep it milder, even my daughter who hates spice enjoys this soup so good the beans are creamy but still have a little bit. a little bit of delicious quality for them, a little bit of bite that is absolutely perfect, comes along with really humble ingredients, but I'm telling you it's simple, effortless, to make absolutely delicious, super affordable, so hey, you guys will love it if They are looking for.

More recipes using dried beans in your Instant Pot, be sure to check out my next recipe where I share with you how to make Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice until next time happy cooking m m