This Instant Pot Black Beans And Chorizo Soup combines delicious black beans and chorizo into a delectable and hearty soup. This Cuban black beans recipe makes a great side or full-on main dish.
Why This Instant Pot Black Beans And Chorizo Soup Is So Terrific
- Hearty. The chorizo in this Instant Pot Black Beans and Chorizo Soup makes this soup a full meal. This is a thick and filling black bean soup.
- Flavor. The spices and Rotel in this black bean soup come through beautifully when pressure cooked. Each bean is bursting with flavor and is perfectly seasoned.
- Simplicity. This will be one of the easiest meals you've ever made. Simply break up the sausage, pour in the rest of the ingredients, let it cook, then roughly smash the beans and serve. No babysitting, and simple methods and ingredients!
How Do You Make This Cuban Black Beans Recipe?
- Sauté. Turn the Instant Pot on Sauté. When the panel reads HOT, add in the chorizo, onion, bell pepper, and garlic. Smash up the chorizo as much as you can. You do not need to cook it, you just want to break up the sausage as much as possible.
- Pour. Pour in Rotel, beans, water, cumin, salt, and cilantro.
- Cook. Close the lid. Cook at high pressure for 40 minutes. Allow pressure to release naturally for 10 minutes, and then release all remaining pressure.
- Puree. Using the back of a wooden spoon, or using an immersion blender, roughly puree about half the beans to thicken the soup. Add additional water if needed.
- Serve. Garnish as desired and serve your Black Bean Stew.
Tips and Tricks For Cooking Black Beans
How Do You Cook Dried Black Beans Fast?
Soaking. Soak these beans in hot water for an hour before cooking to get them done quickly.
Pressure Cooking. Using the Instant Pot cuts down on HOURS of cooking time versus traditional stovetop cooking methods.
Liquid. Having the right ratio of liquid helps these cook correctly in a fraction of the time without being under-cooked or over-cooked.
Can You Cook Dry Beans In An Instant Pot?
Absolutely! I love cooking beans and even rice in my Instant Pot. Cooking beans or lentils at high pressure infuses flavor like no other cooking style can, and cooks at a fraction of the time.
Check out this post on how to make lentils and beans in a pressure cooker.
What Is The Ratio Of Beans To Water In The Instant Pot?
It depends on the type of bean, and how much you're cooking at once. Every bean cooks differently and needs different ratios and cook times for the Instant Pot.
For more info on how to cook beans and lentils in your pressure cooker, check out my guide on How to Cook Beans in the Instant Pot!
Instant Pot Black Beans and Chorizo Soup Tips and Tricks
- Don't overcook the sausage. Remember the saute step, in the beginning, is just to break up the meat, not to cook it.
- Substituting. You can sub Italian sausage for the chorizo if you prefer for a different taste. You can also use a different beans like red beans or kidney beans, dried lima beans etc. in this black bean recipe.
- Mexican, not Spanish Chorizo. I made this with Mexican chorizo which is a fresh meat sausage, vs. Spanish Chorizo which is a smoked meat sausage. So really, any other fresh meat sausage will work--it will just taste different.
- Soaking. Don't forget to soak the pressure cooker beans in hot water for an hour before cooking, or they won't cook properly.
- Natural Release. Don't use a quick release (QPR) immediately when your soup is done cooking at high pressure. It needs the 10 minutes of Natural Pressure Release (NPR) to continue cooking, and to keep your soup from spewing through the valve.
- Canned Beans. If you want to know how to cook canned black beans in the Instant Pot: Reduce water to 1 cup, and cook for 5 minutes under pressure, with 10 mins NPR.
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I'm so happy with how this Instant Pot Black Beans And Chorizo Soup turned out and I can't wait for you to try it! It's one of my favorite Instant Pot recipes. Make sure to share this recipe with your friends on Pinterest and Facebook so they can enjoy it too!
Servings: 6
Calories: 252kcal
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup Onion
- 1 cup Bell Peppers, diced
- 1/2 pound Mexican Turkey Chorizo, out of casing
- 1 tablespoon Minced Garlic
- 1 can Rotel, tomatoes and chilis
- 1 cup dried black beans, soaked in hot water for an hour
- 1.5 cups Water
- 1 tablespoon Ground Cumin
- 1.5 teaspoons Kosher Salt
- 1/2 cup Cilantro, chopped (optional)
Optional Garnishes
- 1 cup queso fresco, crumbled
- Pickled Jalapeno Slices
Instructions
- Turn the Instant Pot on Sauté. When the panel reads HOT, add in the chorizo, onion, bell pepper, and garlic. Smash up the chorizo as much as you can. You do not need to cook it, you just want to break up the sausage as much as possible.
- Pour in Rotel, beans, water, cumin, salt, and cilantro.
- Close the lid. Cook at high pressure for 40 minutes. Allow pressure to release naturally for 10 minutes, and then release all remaining pressure.
- Using the back of a wooden spoon, or using an immersion blender, roughly puree about half the beans to thicken the soup. Add additional water if needed.
- Garnish as desired and serve.
Black Beans and Chorizo Soup Tips and Tricks
- Sausage. Don't overcook the sausage. Remember the saute step, in the beginning, is just to break up the meat, not to cook it.
- Substituting. You can sub Italian sausage for the chorizo if you prefer for a different taste. You can also use a different beans like red beans or kidney beans, dried lima beans etc. in this soup.
- Mexican, not Spanish Chorizo. I made this with Mexican chorizo which is a fresh meat sausage, vs. Spanish Chorizo which is a smoked meat sausage. So really, any other fresh meat sausage will work--it will just taste different.
- Soaking. Don't forget to soak the beans in hot water for an hour before cooking, or they won't cook properly.
- Natural Release. Don't use a quick release (QPR) immediately when your soup is done cooking at high pressure. It needs the 10 minutes of Natural Pressure Release (NPR) to continue cooking, and to keep your soup from spewing through the valve.
- Canned Beans. You can also make this with canned beans. Reduce water to 1 cup, and cook for 5 minutes under pressure, with 10 mins NPR.
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Nutrition
Calories: 252kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 10g | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 4g
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Kandace
Hi I plan to make this but have uncooked ground mild Italian sausage. I'm not clear on whether I need to cook this uncooked meat in the sautéing process. Or, follow recipe for cooked chorizo. Please let me know.
Sarah
This was amazing! We used pork chorizo since we couldn't find turkey chorizo - we live in a small town, so I doubt we could have found turkey chorizo even when we aren't on lock down. So flavorful. Super picky 6 and 8 year old kids couldn't get enough!
URVASHI PITRE
Yay! Love it when the kids eat things like this!
Dan
Made this today. As we are on COVID lockdown supplies were a bit scarce so had to adjust the recipe. Skipped the Cilantro and substituted pre-cooked Chicken Chorizo for the uncooked Turkey version. To compensate as best I could, I used extra sausage for more flavor (and I doubled the Garlic because I have never encountered a recipe in which more garlic was a bad idea). Came out quite nice! I may jazz it up spice wise as the version I ended up with was flavorful but not spicy (throw in some cayenne maybe) but overall an excellent and very easy hearty soup. Thanks!
Michelle
Tried this tonight--it was very yummy! I'm not sure if I prefer this version or your black bean soup with bacon (which I've made many, many times). I guess we'll have to rotate them!
URVASHI PITRE
Yay! Good to hear! I also posted a black beans and brown rice recipe recently that you might like
Michelle
I should add a follow-up comment: Husband liked it so much that he asked if we could eat leftovers the next night...he almost never does that!