Munchie Monday: BBQ Beans, Whole Food Style

 We were having a vegan potluck this week.  I saw a recipe for BBQ Beans, maybe on Monson Made this channel.

This is how I made them:

1 large diced sweet onion
2 diced green bell peppers
1 diced orange bell pepper
8 ounces washed and finely chopped baby Bella mushrooms

3 Tablespoons chopped garlic from a jar
2 cups red kidney beans (or you can use one can)
2 cups garbanzo beans (or you can use one can)
1 bottle Sweet Baby Ray's No Sugar Added Barbecue sauce.

Put the Instant Pot to Sauté mode and, when hot, cook the onions, peppers, and mushrooms, stirring often.  When the vegetables are softened, add in the garlic and cook and stir another minute. 

Cancel the Sauté function and add the beans and barbecue sauce.  I also added 1 1/2 cups water and put the Instant Pot to cook on HIGH pressure for 3 minutes.  

It started to burn (at least that was the message on the pot...so glad I had wandered over to check it at that moment!) before the three minutes were up so I put all the ingredients in the 3-quart Instant Pot inner bowl then, after washing the 8-quart bowl, I put the trivet in the 8-quart liner bowl with 2 cups water, then set the filled 3-quart bowl in on top of the trivet and set it to cook for 3 minutes on HIGH pressure, though everything was already cooked so it could probably just been put on WARM.

Next time I will probably just use a large heavy saucepan/stock pot to do the whole thing.  Since I had already cooked the beans from dry beans, only the vegetables had to be cooked so they can all be thrown in together and heated up.

This is the little bit of leftovers in a Ball jar for storage.  It was really delicious.  Some people ate more than one serving...always a good sign...!