Instant Pot Bean Soup - Albanian Fasule
This Instant Pot Bean Soup is perfect for winter time. This is how we cooked beans back home in Albania.
Servings 6 people
Ingredients
- 1 lb white beans
- 1.25 lbs beef shanks for soup with bone
- 1 big white onion
- 1 green bell pepper
- 2 carrots
- 4 tbsps olive oil add more if you skip the beef shanks
- 2 tbsps chopped fresh parsley
- 0.5 tsp minced garlic
- 0.5 tbsps salt
- 1 can diced or crushed tomatoes 14.5 ozs
- 1 liter hot water
- 3 bay leaves
- 0.5 tsp paprika
Instructions
- Soak beans in a pot of cold water overnight
- Chop onions, pepper, carrots and parsley.
- Sautee or brown beef shanks in olive oil. Flip them around.
- Once brown on both sides, add the chopped veggies and keep sauteing together.
- Get the beans that were soaking in water, put them in colander and rinse. Add the beans to the instant pot as well as the diced tomatoes. At this point, you can add a pinch of paprika, bay leaves and some garlic.
- Add 1 liter of water. Close the lid and cook in high on the Beans/Chilli setting for about 1 hour. Check that beans are soft to eat, if not check water level and add more if needed. Cook for another 30 minutes or as long as needed for the beans to be soft.
Notes
Beans cooking time depends on beans age and that you can't read on the packaging. So unfortunately, it's difficult to plan if your soup will be ready in an hour or two. I saw give yourself some time when cooking this dish, or cook it the night before so you don't have hungry little people rioting for dinner:)))