Pressure cooker ham and beans

Our Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup has tremendous flavor and wonderful bean texture. You don’t have to pre-soak the beans at all and in about pressure cooker ham and beans minutes, you have a delicious ham and bean soup for the whole family. How to Make Ham and Bean Soup in Pressure Cooker?

First of all, it’s super easy to make Instant Pot Pressure Cooker ham and bean soup. Seriously, we never thought making ham and bean soup would be this easy. Second of all, we’ve made so many variations of ham and bean soup in the stove top and the slow cooker. With different tests of soaking and not-soaking the beans, the flavors are great but they all take time to prepare.

Using regular chopped cooked ham will give you lots of flavor. But if you decide to use a smoked ham hock, you’ll have even more flavor and be super delighted with the outcome. How long to cook the dried beans in the Instant Pot? We were a little cautious about how the dried beans would cook and if they would be mushy.

But they weren’t mushy at all and this bean soup was definitely one of the best we ever had. Do you need to soak the dried beans for the ham and bean soup? There’s always a lot of discussion and debate if you need to soak the beans. We tried both methods and for the most part, they tasted the same.