Easy Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice
Easy Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice Louisiana Style get's done under 45 mins and is loaded with sausage, red beans, and awesome good flavor. The creamy beans and the delicious sausage makes this New Orleans style Red Beans and Rice taste heavenly.
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Servings: 6 people
Calories: 94kcal
Cost: $5
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Ingredients
- 1 pound red beans, unsoaked **Soak overnight in enough water. Yields about 5 cups soaked red beans.
- 1 pound Cajun Sausage **or use creole sausage or andouille sausage.
- 1 cup onion **yellow onion, finely chopped.
- 1 cup green bell pepper **finely chopped.
- 1 cup celery **finely chopped.
- 2 tbsp garlic **minced.
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tbsp Olive Oil
- Salt **according to your own personal preference.
Seasonings
- 1 tsp Cayenne Pepper **skip if heat intolerant.
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 tsp thyme
- ½ tsp Paprika
- 1 tbsp Creole Seasoning **or use cajun seasoning.
- 3 Bay leaf
Liquid
- 1 guinness beer **440 ml. We used 1 full can. Read NOTES below for sub.
- 2 cups Water
- 1 tbsp Better Than Bouillon **stirred in the water to make an instant chicken stock. Use Better than Bouillon chicken base.
Instructions
- Pick & Soak Red Beans: Place the beans in a large bowl or plate and pick out any debris or stones. Rinse the beans well under running tap water than soak them with enough water (3 inches water above the beans) for 8 hours or over night.
- Brown Sausage: Add oil in the instant pot, hit the SAUTE function & set it on HIGH heat. When the oil becomes moderately hot gently release the sliced sausages and brown them both sides.
- Saute Aromatics: Add the finely chopped onion, bell pepper & celery and saute along with the sausage for 1-2 mins. Than, add the garlic and saute for another 1 min. Thrown in all the dry seasonings mentioned above in the ingredients section "seasonings" and saute again for about 2 mins.
- Deglaze pot: Add the Guinness beer (find sub in the NOTES below) and the Worcestershire sauce and stir to mix well. De-glaze the pot very well by scraping the sides and the bottom of the pot with the help of a spatula. This will help loosen any stuck food particles and prevent the BURN error. This step is important, do not rush! CANCEL the SAUTE function.
- Pressure cook: Now add the over-night soaked red beans, and pour the chicken stock (water + better than bouillon combined together) , stir to mix well. Add salt according to your own personal taste preference, throw in the bay leaves. Secure the lid and PRESSURE COOK on HIGH for 35 mins followed by complete natural pressure release (it should take about 10 mins). Than, open the lid carefully and fish out the bay leaves with the help of a pair of tongs and discard them.
- Thicken red beans and sausage: Take out about 1 cup cook red beans and mash them into a paste either with the help of a potato masher, the back of your ladle or in the food processor. Add the mashed red beans paste back into the pot. Stir very well until the paste is completely incorporated into the red beans and sausage gravy, there should not be any lumps. Hit back the SAUTE & set it on LOW heat. Simmer the red beans and sausage stirring often to thicken it. You can thicken the gravy more or less according to your desired consistency. Serve with white long grain rice and enjoy!
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Notes
- Best Sausages: Andouille, Zatarain's Cajun or Creole sausage.
- Soaked Beans cook time (high altitude) : I would recommend cooking the soaked red beans for 45 to 55 mins. The recipe would remain the same.
- Dried Beans cook time: 1 hour. For high altitude I would cook them for 1 hr 15 mins and than check for doneness. If they do not mash easily I would few more mins.
- Spicy red beans with sausage: Add chopped jalapenos while sautéing the onion or cayenne pepper along with other seasonings. This will reward you with a spicy red beans and rice with sausage.
- Beer sub: Sub the beer with 1 + ¾ cups chicken stock or water.
Nutrition Facts
Easy Instant Pot Red Beans and Rice
Amount Per Serving
Calories 94
Calories from Fat 63
% Daily Value*
Fat 7g11%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Sodium 76mg3%
Potassium 213mg6%
Carbohydrates 7g2%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 3g3%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 751IU15%
Vitamin C 25mg30%
Calcium 34mg3%
Iron 1mg6%
* Read our privacy policy - Calorie information is provided as a courtesy only and should be leveraged as an estimate rather than a guarantee.Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition
Calories: 94kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 76mg | Potassium: 213mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 751IU | Vitamin C: 25mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 1mg