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Vegan Instant Pot Baked Beans (with sneaky veggies)

December 26, 2018 by Lisa Le 3 Comments

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These Vegan Instant Pot Baked Beans are velvety and luscious
With tons of tomato flavour and some sneaky veggies!

Vegan Baked Beans with Sneaky Veggies | The Viet Vegan

I’ve been trying to pay a little more attention to the food I eat and how I eat it because my body is becoming way more sensitive to what I eat. Gone are the days where I can eat junk food and still have that uncanny pep in my step that younger me used to have. No longer can I eat an entire bag of chips and a super salt and fat-laden breakfast and feel like tackling the day. So slowly, I’ve been trying to eat better and eat more protein-rich foods, like beans! Also, ever since having to clean out my cupboards because of a certain mouse-y intruder, I’ve become acutely aware of how many beans I’ve hoarded and how they need to be eaten.

Vegan Baked Beans with Sneaky Veggies | The Viet Vegan

I had not one, not two, but three rather large jars of navy beans that had to be eaten. I’ve probably experimented on making these baked beans about 3 or 4 times now, and I still have navy beans to spare. I don’t know what past Lisa was thinking, in buying all these navy beans. Old me was a lot more optimistic than I’d like. But now that I’ve been trying out my Instant Pot more successfully lately, I’ve found that I can’t love beans unless they’ve been pressure cooked. I have a ton more bean recipes coming at you in the future. I don’t think you quite understand the hoard of beans I have.

Vegan Baked Beans with Sneaky Veggies | The Viet Vegan

One thing I discovered while researching all sorts of ways to cook beans is that you need to soak beans for at least 12 hours to leech out the phytic acid in the beans. This phytic acid binds to iron, magnesium, protein and calcium in the beans, making it difficult for your body to absorb. Essentially the entire benefit of eating beans (aside from all that fibre) is for the iron, protein, and calcium, so even though you CAN cook dry beans in an Instant Pot, it is always better to soak them using cold water first. Some things you can’t rush.

Also, pro-tip from Serious Eats, soak your beans with some salt first so they don’t burst as much after cooking. Soak your beans, and soak them in cold, salty water!

Vegan Baked Beans with Sneaky Veggies | The Viet Vegan

One of these days I might also try out a more traditional baked beans (the sort of more liquidy baked bean sauce version), but for now, I am very content with this veggie-ful Instant Pot baked beans dish. I hope you like it and try it as well! Are you also a bean hoarder like me?

Vegan Baked Beans with Sneaky Veggies | The Viet Vegan

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Yield: 3L baked beans

Vegan Baked Beans (with sneaky veggies)

Vegan Baked Beans with Sneaky Veggies | The Viet Vegan
Prep Time 1 day
Total Time 1 day

Ingredients

Beans

  • 3 cups (550 g) dry navy beans
  • 1 tbsp salt (I used iodized here)
  • 3 bay leaves

Tomato Sauce

  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 cup (2 small/medium) onions, diced
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 cup (2 medium) carrots, diced
  • 1 cup (3 ribs) celery, diced
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 796 mL (19 fl oz) can diced tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp vegan worcestershire sauce
  • 2 cups water

Instructions

For the Instant Pot Beans:

  1. Before cooking, soak dry navy beans in cold water + 1 tbsp salt for 24 hours. I tend to cover the beans with over an inch of water since they absorb a lot of water.
  2. Once beans are soaked, drain and rinse well.
  3. Add to instant pot/pressure cooker with bay leaves. Pour in 2L water/enough water to cover beans with 1.5 inch of water.
  4. Pressure cook with the "bean" setting for 13 minutes (remember to set the vent to "sealing"). Once cooked release naturally or manually. Drain the beans and remove the bay leaves.

For the tomato sauce:

  1. In a medium pot, cook onions in oil until translucent and lightly browned/caramelized. Add garlic and cook until fragrant. Add a little water to deglaze the pan if necessary (nobody wants burned onion and garlic!)
  2. Add diced carrots and celery and stir to continue cooking. Once veggies are cooked through, add garlic powder, onion powder and salt and stir to cook the spices slightly.
  3. Add diced tomatoes, vegan worcestershire sauce, and 2 cups water (use that water to rinse the tomato can to get all that tomatoey goodness).
  4. Preheat oven to 350F.
  5. Bring to a steady simmer on medium heat, then lower heat and cover. Cook for about 20 minutes until all veggies are totally softened.
  6. Once cooked, blend until smooth, then pour over strained cooked beans in a large casserole dish (mine was a 3QT sized dish). Stir well to incorporate the beans and bake for 30 mins at 350F.
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About Lisa Le

Lisa is the thirty-something, nerdy, procrastinating, feminist blogger and photographer behind The Viet Vegan. She loves spicy foods, noodles, and food in bowls.

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  1. Rachel says

    January 4, 2019 at 9:44 AM

    Soaking beans now! I can’t wait to try these. Do you soak the beans on the counter or in the fridge? Also is the 1 tablespoon salt for the soaking or is it additional for the cooking? Thank you.

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    • Lisa Le says

      January 23, 2019 at 3:00 PM

      Hiya! Sorry I didn’t see this comment sooner, but yes, the salt is for the soaking, and I soaked on the counter but you can do it in the fridge if you are soaking for more than 24 hrs.

      Reply
  2. Brenda says

    January 6, 2019 at 12:36 PM

    I definitely don’t have as many hoarded as you do, but I do have something of a bean stash from a period when I was trying to introduce more beans into my life. Unfortunately, I have such an extreme hate-on for the texture of beans that I just can’t do it. Beans are pretty much the #1 reason (well, co-#1 reason. I have also yet to find a way to make the texture of tofu palatable) why I will never be able to go vegan. But I do make them into dips or brownies sometimes, or into other dishes for actual vegan people I know, so I am making my way through the stash…

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