These Aromatic Pressure Cooker Black-Eyed Beans are deeply flavourful, creamy, and incredibly versatile.
Cooking the beans with onion, garlic, bay leaf, and ginger allows them to absorb gentle aromatics while they soften. The result is a pot of beans that already taste delicious before they’re added to a stew, curry, or grain bowl.
Even better, the cooking liquid becomes a light bean broth that adds richness and depth to sauces and soups.
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Makes about 3½–4 cups cooked beans
10 minutes
15 minutes
Plant-based
A simple method for cooking black-eyed beans in a pressure cooker with onion, garlic, and bay leaf for flavourful beans and rich bean broth.
1½ cups dried black-eyed beans, soaked overnight
3½ cups water
1 tbsp olive oil
Rinse the dried beans thoroughly.
Place them in a bowl and cover with several times their volume of water.
Soak for 8–12 hours overnight until slightly softened and expanded.
Drain the soaking water and rinse the beans.
Add the soaked beans to the pressure cooker along with fresh water, onion, crushed garlic, bay leaf, ginger if using, and olive oil.
Do not add salt at this stage.
Close the lid and cook using the beans or grains setting for about 15 minutes.
Allow the pressure to release naturally once cooking finishes.
Open the lid and test a bean.
The bean should press easily between your fingers and feel creamy inside while still holding its shape.
Before draining the beans, reserve about ½–1 cup of the cooking liquid.
This broth can be used to enrich stews, thin sauces, or add flavour to soups.
Drain the beans and toss gently with a drizzle of olive oil and a small pinch of salt if desired.
This helps season the beans before using them in other dishes.