Healthy Instant Pot 15 Bean Soup
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Instant Pot 15 Bean Soup with Ham and Thyme is a classic, healthy and hearty soup made quickly and easily in a pressure cooker. A standby, under 1-hour comfort food, to warm your toes on chilly days.
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Why I Love Making Instant Pot 15 Bean Soup
While adding canned beans speeds up bean soup recipes, there’s something satisfying by cooking dried beans from scratch. But it’s hours in the making. And while I love slow cooker beans, this 15 Bean Soup will shave hours off the making.
For instance, making this soup in the slow cooker can take as long as 10 hours. The stovetop can take 2 to 3 hours. The pressure cooker makes this a doable weeknight dinner!
Budget-Friendly and Easy
Hurst’s Beans says this soup is America’s most popular bean soup. And that this “15 BEAN SOUP® is low in fat, high in fiber, kosher, and easily feeds your family for under $1.00 per serving.”
Hearty, healthy, and a budget-friendly favorite.
Presoaking the Beans
Although my preferred method is to presoak beans, it’s easy to make this soup without presoaking. Simply rinse the dry beans and place them into the pressure cooker with the other ingredients. Cook on high pressure for 45 minutes with a natural pressure release.
Note that the recipe instructions below are written for pre-soaking the beans.
Beans in a 15 Bean Soup Mix
Have you ever wondered which beans are included in a 15 Bean Soup Mix? Me too.
Hurst says each package contains at least 15 of these bean varieties: northern, pinto, large lima, blackeye, garbanzo, baby lima, green split, kidney, cranberry, small white, pink, small red, yellow split, lentil, navy, white kidney, black, yellow eye.
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Instant Pot 15 Bean Soup with Ham Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound 15 Bean Soup mix
- 1 onion chopped (1 1/2 cups)
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 2 carrots peeled and chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 2-3 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 dried bay leaf
- 6 cup water
- 1 lb fully cooked ham chopped
- 1 (14-oz) can diced tomatoes partially drained
- juice of 1 lemon or 1/4 cup
Instructions
- Soak the beans overnight or use the quick soak method (details in the notes section below).
- Add the beans to the Instant Pot container along with the onion, garlic, celery, carrots, salt, red pepper flakes, thyme, and bay leaf. Pour the water over the top, seal the lid, and cook on high pressure for 40 minutes. Allow the pressure to release naturally for 15 minutes, then quickly release the remaining pressure.
- Once the pressure is released, turn the Instant Pot to the saute setting. Remove the bay leaf and thyme sprigs (woody stems). Add in the partially drained tomatoes, cooked ham, and lemon juice. Adjust seasoning as needed (or add in the seasoning packet included with the bean soup mix). Simmer for about 5 minutes or until the ham is warmed through.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
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Made this for dinner tonight with leftover Christmas ham, and it was excellent! Loved the flavors!
Thank you for trying the soup. I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Taste was good but 40 minutes to Instapot pressure cook 15 bean mix just way overcooked the beans. They were all mostly disintegrated.
Hi Denise, I’m sorry that happened. I make this soup often and have never had that issue. In fact, sometimes I’ve even had to add extra time. Thank for your input and for trying the recipe.
Tried this recipe in my Instant Pot, and it is delicious!
Thank you, Brenda for trying it! I love it too — it’s on my menu for next week. So glad you enjoyed it.