Pressure Cooker Butter Beans with Beer and Bacon

Butter beans cooked with beer and topped with bacon are cooked in the pressure cooker producing a hearty side dish.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 40 mins
• Total Time: 55 mins
• Calories: 313 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle beer
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 pound bacon
• 4 cups water, or more as needed
• 1 pound dried large lima beans (butter beans)
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cumin
• 0.5 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Place beans into a large container and cover with several inches of cool water; let stand 8 hours to overnight.

Step 2

Stir 4 cups water into cooled bacon grease; add beer and cumin.

Step 3

Place bacon in the open pressure cooker and cook over medium-high heat, occasionally turning, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and remove the pressure cooker from heat. Reserve bacon grease in the pressure cooker to cool, about 10 minutes.

Step 4

Drain and rinse soaked beans; add to water mixture in the pressure cooker.

Step 5

Place the lid on the pressure cooker and secure tightly. Cook beans according to the manufacturer's instructions over medium-high heat, about 30 minutes; release the pressure.

Step 6

Stir jalapeño pepper and garlic into beans. Crumple bacon over beans.

Step 7

Close the pressure cooker again and bring the pressure to 15 pounds per square inch over medium heat. Immediately turn off the heat. Remove the pressure cooker from heat and allow pressure naturally decrease to 0.