Baked beans in a sweet, smokey, sticky sauce are a popular side dish especially in the summer with whatever you’re grilling.
Despite being called baked beans, most baked beans are slow simmered in a sweet
molasses sauce not baked. “Baking” them in the
pressure cooker cuts 2/3 off the cooking time.
Cecilia, a Pressure Cooking Today reader asked me if I would post a
pressure cooker baked beans recipe. Although you can make great baked beans with canned beans, cooking them in the
pressure cooker from dry beans is easy, cheaper, and your beans will be better tasting.
Baked beans in a sweet, smokey, sticky sauce perfect side dish for whatever you're grilling this summer.
Better Homes and Gardens has a good tutorial on cooking baked beans from scratch and I adapted their recipe for the
pressure cooker. The baked beans have a great, traditional flavor. I like lots of bacon in my baked beans, so I doubled the bacon.
You’ll get the prettiest, least broken beans if you soak them overnight, but if you’re in a hurry you can simmer the beans in the
pressure cooker for two minutes and then let them soak for an hour before proceeding with the recipe.