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Instant Pot Green Beans With Butter & Pepper

Published: Apr 10, 2019 · Modified: Jan 10, 2024 by Irena Macri · This post may contain affiliate links · 3 Comments

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Try these simple Instant Pot green beans with melted butter, sea salt and cracked pepper for a perfect hit of nutrients and fibre. It's a tasty vegetable side dish that requires minimum effort and hardly any cooking. 


Instant Pot Green Beans With Butter & Cracked Pepper

We love using the Instant Pot for making a quick and easy side dishes like these buttery fresh green beans (or broccoli, or carrots) because it’s a set-and-forget method that allows you to focus on the main dish at hand. The key to using the pressure cooker for lightly cooked, steamed-like veggies is to use LOW pressure and this is where the adjustability of the Instant Pot is so useful.

How To Cook Fresh Beans In Instant Pot

We’ve tried cooking green vegetables on HIGH pressure and even if you set the Instant Pot for 0 minutes, they still come out overcooked, in our opinion. Using the LOW-pressure results in perfectly cooked green beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts or carrots.

cutting the green beans

All you really need is quality, in-season ingredients and good quality butter or olive oil to coat the steaming hot veggies and a touch of sea salt and cracked pepper to bring out their natural flavours.

Instant Pot Green Beans With Butter & Cracked Pepper

Can I Use Frozen Beans?

Yes, absolutely! Most frozen green beans are partially cooked so you might not need to change any settings. Follow the same instructions and season the beans at the end.

What To Serve Green Beans With

Steamed or boiled green beans done this way in the Instant Pot will be a fabulous and nutritious side dish with almost anything. It will complement red meat and poultry, as well as fish and seafood.

You can make them as a side to our smothered pork chops or this chicken pot pie (while the pie is finishing in the oven, do the green beans in the Instant Pot). For a vegetarian meal, serve these green beans with a lovely risotto or some baby dill potatoes.

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Instant Pot Green Beans With Butter & Cracked Pepper

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Instant Pot Green Beans With Butter & Cracked Pepper

Try these perfectly cooked green beans using the Instant Pot and served with delicious butter, salt and cracked pepper. You don't need much else!
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Prep Time5 minutes mins
Cook Time5 minutes mins
Total Time10 minutes mins
Servings: 2 servings
Calories: 68kcal

Ingredients

  • 4 oz. fine green beans (120 g)
  • 1 tablespoon butter or olive oil
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • ¼ teaspoon cracked pepper

Instructions

  • Chop the tails off the beans and cut them in 2-3 parts, depending on their length. You can also leave them whole.
  • Add the green beans to the Instant Pot with 1 cup of water. Pop the lid on and lock, making sure the top valve is pointing to Sealing. Set the pressure to LOW for 0 (zero) minutes. Even though the timer is set to zero, the beans will still cook during the pressurizing of the pot. Once the cooking stops, use a quick release to let off the pressure (simply point the top valve to Venting and step away). Don’t leave the beans on natural pressure release for too long as they will continue to cook and can get a little too soft. If you do like softer beans, then let the pressure to release naturally for a few minutes before moving the valve to Venting.
  • Strain the beans and transfer to a bowl. Add a dollop of butter of the top and sprinkle with sea salt and some freshly ground black pepper. Serve right away with your favorite main dish.

Notes

Make ahead tip: you can cook the beans ahead of time and rinse them under cold water before storing in the refrigerator. Before serving, simply heat the butter in a pan and reheat the beans, seasoning them with salt and pepper.

Nutrition

Calories: 68kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 630mg | Potassium: 121mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 566IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg
CourseSide
CuisineAmerican
KeywordGreen beans, Healthy, Instant Pot Sides, Vegetable Sides, Vegetarian
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  1. Sharon

    November 12, 2019 at 9:15 am

    Question: what's the difference between the "steam" setting and the "pressure cook" setting? I have a Duo Mini, FWIW. I've used "low steam" to cook frozen veggies in a steamer basket and they come out perfectly cooked with just a little bite to them. Thank!!

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    • Ann Fabrizio

      November 12, 2019 at 5:49 pm

      Steaming is when you just cook your food with steam. Pressure cooking with a steamer basket though is the same cooking mechanism except for the addition of pressure..... But yes basically you can get similar results. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Shams

    April 17, 2019 at 6:38 am

    Its a must try for vegetarian. Definitely going to try! I think, my family would love it:)

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