Munchie Monday: Boston Baked Beans in the Instant Pot

On Sunday I made baked beans in the Instant Pot:

Put the beans and water into the inner liner bowl. I used the 3-quart liner bowl since I was only making a small batch of beans and it was an experiment. 

2 cup dry white beans

5 cups plus a little of water and cooked them for 20 minutes on HIGH.  Then reduced temperature naturally for about 30 minutes.

Drained the water into a measuring cup then put the beans back into the 3-quart liner for pot-in-pot cooking of the beans in the 8-quart Instant Pot, something that has worked very well in the past (the pot in pot).

 

In a bowl mixed 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon sea salt, 1 Tablespoon Horseradish brown mustard, 1 diced onion, and 2 cups cooking water.  Stirred well then put back into the pot over the beans and gently stirred them up a bit. 

At that point I decided to put in about 1 cup of leftover barbecued soy curls which I mixed in. 

Set the beans cooking for another 20 minutes on HIGH.  I let them release pressure naturally since we were watching Stake Conference so they released for about 2 hours before we ate them.  They tasted good to me.  Dear One said he likes “his baked beans”--crockpot overnight on LOW to cook the beans then cooking them the next morning for five or six hours, also on LOW, with salt pork and flavorings but using navy pea beans instead of the great northern beans of which we have a bucket full...!  I will try to find them for next week because I will make them again.

PS Since writing the above I have ordered a 6-quart Instant Pot liner bowl to make family-sized amounts of food for pot-in-pot cooking. I discovered that the 6-quart bowl should fit into the 8-quart Instant Pot with enough clearance to be safe. I will let you know if that is not the case!

Also, Dear One has agreed to pick up the pea beans and salt pork at Food Lion on his way home from giving blood today.  I hope he can find them easily.  I don't really know if I have seen pea beans in the stores here...things are different in the South.

A final also--running my numbers this morning was a little deflating as the blood glucose was up, though not alarmingly, but the weight was up 3 pounds. I guess all the sugar in the beans was a bad idea.  Now to figure out something else to eat when everyone else eats baked beans...OR attempting to eat a small bowl instead of a large bowl of beans.  Maybe I can eat them one bean at a time instead of a spoonful at once...