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Originally posted by Mary Anna:
That said, I'll probably burn them. I never have before, but it's never been 2020 before.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
This recipe has gone in to standard rotation at our house. Easy to do, ordinary ingredients and very good.

Red beans and rice in the instant pot

At the beginning of the pandemic I scored a big bag of "cranberry beans" and have been using those. Apparently they take longer to cook than the usual kidney beans because I have to cook for 50 minutes rather than the 40 minutes the recipe calls for.

I never remember to buy Cajun seasoning so I make my own. I leave out the salt because I like to control the salt level separately.

I think I'm an Instant Pot failure. Well, not for everything, but for things like red beans and rice.

I've made red beans and rice all my adult life. They're stupid easy to get right if you dump the stuff in the crockpot in the morning and turn it on. If you check it now and then (and I'm talking about checking it at lunch and an hour before dinner), you can deal with issues that crop up.

Sometimes they need a little more water. Sometimes they need a little extra seasoning. Who knows why? Maybe the sausage was underseasoned or less moist. I dunno. But it's easy to fix if you have the opportunity to take off the lid while cooking and check. The Instant Pot won't let me do that. So I've made crunchy beans in the Instant Pot. And I've made Instant Pot beans that were cooked to a paste. Maybe I need to do some trial and error, but why waste all that time and beans when I can just dump them in a crockpot and walk away for most of the day?

Anyway, I'm not trusting my New Year's Day black-eyed peas to an Instant Pot. They're too dang important this year. I'll probably just cook them on the stove, since I'll be in the kitchen working on the greens and such. That way, I'll have complete control of the proceedings.

That said, I'll probably burn them. I never have before, but it's never been 2020 before.

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Originally posted by Mary Anna:
(It takes a while to reach pressure, so you're probably looking at 15-20 minutes cook time.) .