We love our Instant Pot for its ability to quickly and easily cook dried beans with no pre-soaking! We all know dried beans are way cheaper than canned, but they take forever to cook. Not anymore!

Wash and thoroughly dry the green beans with a kitchen towel. Trim the stem ends off the green beans; if you’d like, you can ...

While many Cuban black bean recipes call for a ham hock, this one is vegetarian. Start with dry beans (no, you can’t substitute canned beans this time). Some bean devotees say soaking is ...

Always discard the soaking water, rinse, and cook in fresh water without any salt (which toughens the skins). When bought canned, the beans are already cooked and only need draining and rinsing ...

Chinese fermented black beans (known in Cantonese as dou si) are powerful little umami bombs - they add an intense, rich savouriness to whatever they're cooked ... leaving to soak for about ...