Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup
This ham and bean soup is one of my favorite pressure cooker recipes! This Instant Pot soup tastes like it cooked all day, but it’s ready in less than two hours! Big thanks to Hurst’s Beans for sponsoring this post.
Hi, friends!
Are you in holiday overload right now?
I did a big grocery order yesterday to prepare myself for the holiday feast. We have Christmas Eve at my mama’s and then Christmas Day at my house and between the two, well, I needed some groceries.
Online grocery order is basically my favorite thing in the world right now.
My fridge is currently packed to the brim, but then I realized that I forgot one thing. Because of course I did.
That thing I forgot? Was the ham. So, I’m probably going to need to make a run to the store before Christmas. 😉
Does anyone else manage to forget something every time they place an order, meaning that you have to go inside the dang store anyway? So frustrating, but still way better than doing a full grocery shop!
Anyway, I know that most of us have ham for Christmas dinner, although I hear of people who do lasagna on Christmas too.
I am intrigued by you lasagna people.
That sounds delicious and I might have to try it someday. For now, though, we do ham.
I have some friends that do a different ethnic meal every Christmas. I feel like a Mexican food Christmas should be in my future one day.
But like I said. This year, it’s ham. It’s hard to go wrong with you know?
Since ham is such a popular Christmas dinner, I thought we’d need some leftover ham recipes, am I right?
I have a few recipes for you to try. My crock pot breakfast casserole is always a win. So is my slow cooker Cajun ham and beans.
But, I have a feeling that a lot of you will get an Instant Pot for Christmas, so I wanted to share some new pressure cooker recipes for you to try out!
Enter my Instant Pot soup that is just full of beans, ham, and veggies.
This soup is hearty and delicious and I think it’s a great way to test out the magic of the Instant Pot. Taking dried beans to cooked beans in less than two hours is pretty awesome.
I’m working with Hurst Beans to bring you this ham and bean soup! I think you’re going to love how flavorful it is.
The soup tastes like it’s been simmering all day and is just bursting with flavor. But! It’s definitely an easy soup, because after the holidays we all need easy.
I’ve also made pressure cooker pinto beans that you should try sometime soon! Beans are such a filling food and they’re pretty perfect for that New Year’s diet we all have coming up. 😉
Anyway, I like using Hurst’s 15 Bean Soup in this recipe. The package comes with at least 15 different varieties of beans, it’s own ham seasoning packet, and it’s so economical.
Easy ham and bean soup in the Instant Pot!
I add some onions, carrots, and celery to my soup because yum. Then, once it’s all cooked together, I stir in some leftover ham. Easy peasy!
I think you’ll love this ham and bean soup! Let me know if you give it a try.
And also let me know if you got that Instant Pot for Christmas and how you’re liking it.
I hear of so many people that are scared to take it out of the box! I was too, honestly.
But, I embraced my fears and got started boiling eggs in the thing and I’ve never looked back. People aren’t lying when they say that boiled eggs from the Instant Pot peel like a dream.
I moved on to rice (also perfect!) and then to dried beans. I promise that you’ll have this thing figured out in no time!
So, I’d love to hear from all of you – do you want more Instant Pot recipes? 🙂
Instant Pot Ham and Bean Soup
This ham and bean soup is one of my favorite pressure cooker recipes! This Instant Pot soup tastes like it cooked all day, but it’s ready in less than two hours!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 large carrots peeled and diced
- 2 stalks celery diced
- 1 sweet onion diced
- 20 ounces Hurst’s Beans 15 Bean Soup 1 bag
- 7 1/2 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups cooked diced ham
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Instructions
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Turn pressure cooker to "saute" and add the oil to the pot. Once hot, add the carrots, celery, and onion and cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes.
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Rinse and sort through the beans. Add to the pressure cooker along with the chicken stock. Set the seasoning packet aside for later.
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Turn the pressure cooker off. Put on the lid and set the vent to "sealing." Set the pressure cooker to "high pressure" for 40 minutes.
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Once the soup has reached pressure and cooked for 40 minutes, allow the pressure to release naturally - about 20 minutes.
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Remove the lid carefully and stir in the seasoning packet, ham, black pepper, red pepper flakes. Taste and add salt if needed.
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Stir well and let set for 5 minutes to allow the ham to heat through.
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Serve hot. Sprinkle with fresh parsley as desired.
Recipe Notes
To make this in a slow cooker, add the vegetables, beans, stock, and ham to a slow cooker on high. Cook, covered, for 5 hours. Stir in all of the seasoning and continue cooking for 1 hour.
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Always loving my instant pot! pinning and sharing tomorrow!
Christmas dinner is different every year, but it’s never ham or turkey or any of that traditional stuff. The last couple years we’ve done a taco bar with my extended family on whatever day we get together and then lasagna at our house on Christmas day.
By the time we’ve done Thanksgiving at home, Thanksgiving at church, Christmas at church, and Christmas with the inlaws we’ve had at least 4 turkey/ham/stuffing/potato meals in a month’s time and we’re over it. Bring on the taco’s!
Merry Christmas!!!
A taco bar sounds amazing!! We do deli sandwiches (usually from Jimmy John’s) on Christmas Eve, so the traditional dinner on Christmas Day is nice. But I’d give up a traditional dinner for a taco bar any day of the week!
More Instant Pot recipes would be great.
Thanks for your time posting all these great ideas.
Glad to hear you’re interested in more IP recipes! I’ll keep them coming! 🙂
This dish looks amazingly delicious, and I can hardly wait to make it. Yum!
How do you make this without a pressure cooker? It looks so good!!
I’ll update the post to include slow cooker instructions. 🙂
Hi, Karly
I was wondering if I’ll still need to soak the beans overnight in order to use this recipe.
I’d like to know this too!
Nope, no need. 🙂
Oh good, I was worried that I messed up my soup by not soaking the beans first.
I grew up having Ham and lasagna for Christmas! A lovely combo, if you ask me, easy to skip mashed potatoes, just a plate of lasagna and ham, delightful
Sounds delicious!
I totally got an Instant Pot for Christmas, so I might need to try out this recipe! It looks cozy delicious!
Recipes like this remind me I need to get an instant-pot….like right now! this soup looks and sounds delicious!
I cooked this but I added a can of diced tomatoes and all ingredients at once but the seasoning pack and cooked for 40 minutes and it turned out perfect. My first instant pot dish a success!
Oh and I used country ham chips, no need for salt
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can I throw the ham bone in with this recipe as well? Never used a bone in IP so just want to clarify! Thank you!
I think so, but haven’t tried it myself. I know people make bone broth in the IP all the time, so I think it’d be great.
Yes you can put the bone in just take it out when soup is done will turn out great enjoy the great soup
When you saw let the pressure release naturally for 20 minutes does that mean turn to vent or let sit for 20 minutes? Sorry, Instatpot newbie here.
Natural release means let the pressure drop on it’s own, so don’t turn the vent. 🙂 After the 20 minutes is up, go ahead and flip your vent and open it up.
What a perfect EASY winter soup!! This looks so delicious, and full of flavor 🙂 I’m a sucker for ham in soup!!
By beans didn’t come with a seasoning packet….any suggestions?
I would probably just add a little bit of smoke flavoring and some extra salt, as needed.
I received an Instant Pot for Christmas and am using the slow cooker method for this delicious looking soup, on a snowy day at The Jersey Shore! I can’t adjust the time – it automatically set at “normal” for slow cooking and 4:00 hours! Seems to be a real PAIN! I’ve got the lid tight, it’s vented, UGH!!!!
Sorry to hear you’re having issues with your Instant Pot, Kathryn. I’ve never tried using mine as a slow cooker, so I can’t help. Hopefully there’s some info in the manual that can help.
I think that I had all the adjustments made on the instant pot. Steam was being released the entire cooking time.
At the end of the 40 minutes, there was no liquid left. I had to add an additional 7 cups of broth. It was delicious after I did that.
What did I do wrong?
It sounds like you didn’t close the steam valve. A little bit of steam might release at times, but it shouldn’t be much.
This will be my first use of my new IP. Can I add the ham bone prior to adding pressure without screwing anything up? Thanks!
Sorry– I see you’ve answered this above!
Excellent flavor. This was the first time I’ve made ham and bean soup and my family loved it. Thanks for sharing this recipe. May God Bless you.
Glad your family enjoyed it!
I tried this with a bone from an 11lb half ham. It needed another 20 min of time under pressure (total of 60min) for the beans to soften. That may have been, at least partially due to the extra salt the ham added by the ham (or so I’ve been told). Overall, it was the best bean soup that I have ever made. Thank you for the recipe!!!
So glad you enjoyed the soup! I’m wondering if the need for extra time had to do with the bone in the pot as well. Interesting! 🙂
Can you make this in a 3 qt instant pot? Do I need to half the recipe.
I haven’t tried in a 3 quart pot, but I believe I’ve heard that you never want to fill it more than halfway full with beans. I would probably halve this recipe.
Nutmeg goes great with ham. I would use 1 tablespoon in this recipe if I would try it.
I am going to make this with my left over ham bone from Easter. Would you recommend I use water instead of chicken broth since I am using the ham bone? Thank you!!
I think chicken broth or water would be fine.
Best ham & bean soup we’ve ever had over here! I used 3.1 lb leftover bone-in ham & increased time to 60 minutes. Everything was perfect! I am so grateful for the introduction to Hurst’s Beans. Thank you so much for sharing!!!
So glad it was a hit!!
What I found I already soaked the beans overnight before seeing your recipe? Can I still cook with the IP?
I would probably reduce the cook time a bit, but I can’t say by how much as I haven’t tried it.
Jackie, my manual (for the Breville Fast Slow Pro) says to change the pre-programmed time for beans from 40 minutes to 20 minutes if the beans are pre-soaked.
Still discovering the world of pressure cooking for myself. This looks like a great recipe.
How long do I cook the beans in the instant pot if I double the recipe?
I’ve not tried doubling this recipe, so I can’t say.
I doubled the recipe. It took 65 minutes instead of 40. 🙂
Hi. If I wanted to use my own seasoning do you know which spices I should use??
I skipped the packet and added:
1tsp savory
1tsp sage
1 tsp Herb de Provance or you can do Italian
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp salt
Pepper to taste
It’s SUPER yummy 🙂
How big of an IP?
I use a 6 quart.
I made this last night in my 6 Qt. It was so easy! And my husband had seconds! Thank you!
I made this after discovering my grocery store sold pork hocks. I followed the recipe as directed except I didn’t want to use the seasoning pack in the beans so I threw in some seasonings. First, I was also afraid that the hocks smelled too ‘smokey’. The soup did not taste ‘smokey’ at all, but very very flavorful. Secondly, I’m not sure I would make this again exactly like this for one reason – the mix of beans cook at different times and several varieties were totally gone by the time the large beans were done enough to eat. I actually started to give it 5-10 more minutes at pressure after I took out the hocks and put in the chopped ham, but I got a burn warning and sure enough the disintegrated beans/veggies were forming a crazy paste on the bottom. It honestly tastes amazing but I feel like it needs something to account for the varieties of beans. Maybe lower pressure for a different length of time? the soup button on the pot instead of manual high pressure? Dunno, but thank you for encouraging me to try dry unsoaked beans in a pot, it was really good!
I found that 40 minutes with a 20 minute NR had some beans a little am dente yet. So I threw the ham and seasoning in for another 5 min and NR for 10. Perfect. When I make beans on the stove top I find that its a little thicker, but this still has a wonderful taste with so many less steps!
We did get one for Christmas. Roasted a whole chicken in 35 minutes not counting cool down. Also made a pot roast in 70min, Delicious.
Do you prefer the slow cooking or pressure cooking for your ham and bean soup? I’m making that next, looks so good.
I prefer the pressure cooker, just because it’s so quick and I’m not tortured by the yummy smell coming from a slow cooker all day. 😉
I made this in my Instant Pot exactly as the recipe is written using a 15 bean mix soup packet from my local grocery. It’s an absolutely delicious soup and hearty. Do not skip the red pepper flakes, it makes it over the top good. I gave some to my son and some to my sister and brother-in-law. They all raved about it. My sister is going to make the crock pot version.
Thank so much for this recipe.
So glad to hear you enjoyed! 🙂
I think this is definitely 5 stars! I tweaked it of course, added bacon, garlic and some more spices but other than that I thought this was great and very easy!
This was fantastic!! I did add two cloves of garlic (minced) & a bay leaf. I used 5 cups of my homemade pork stock and used ham BTB for the rest of the broth. It was so delicious when the windchill here was -55°!!! I will definitely make this again.
You made the big time , they posted this on their website .
I made it and didnt think Ham Been’s could get better,
it was awesome!
Thanks
Mark
I was taught to always soak beans to help eliminate gas and aid in digestion. Soaking the beans also has the added bonus of making them “creamy” and downright delicious. I know that I will have to reduce the cook time and the amount of broth. Do you have any idea how much broth I would need?
I don’t, sorry.
This was so Freak’n Lick’n Good! Didn’t stray to much, but added 3 rough minced Ga and 3 Celery stalks, and 1 box Low Sodium Chicken broth and 1 box of regular ( total about 8 cups). I could only get my hands on the Cajun variety, so I planned on adding some Hickory Liquid Smoke. I was about 10 minutes into the initial pressurizing when I realized I forgot to add some liquid smoke; so I manually released the pressure and added about a 1/2 teaspoon and added another cup of water fortified with chicken boullion . I locked her down and ran for the 40 mins. / 20 mins. NPR. Everything seemed good at this point but I wanted to add some canned Fire Roasted Garlic Tomatoes. So I taste tested then added the Tomatoes, Season Packet, about a cup of leftover Easter Ham, 2 cups of packaged diced Ham smidge more Salt, Chicken Boullion, and cracked Pepper. I then ran under pressure for another 7 mins. / 10 mins. NPR. Since I was feeling lazy we served over some frozen Baked Steak Fries with Everything French Bread. Oh it was wonderful; and that’s coming from someone whose not a big bean fan or into split peas. Hubby thought it was Great too.
Sounds like you made some delicious soup! So glad the recipe was a hit! 🙂
I made this per the recipe once already and it turned out perfect. I am however not finding red pepper flakes at the grocery. I just assumed crushed red pepper was the same… it was delicious but boy did it have a hot kick to it. Still no luck finding red pepper flakes so tonight while making again I cut the crushed red pepper to a half tsp and tried to pick out as many seeds as possible to see if it helps. Any advice?
Hi Karl…you were correct that they are the same thing. Definitely cut the red pepper if it’s too spicy to you. 🙂
Enjoyed this soup. I used a ham bone also. Since I only had a bog of 16oz of beans I only used 6 cups of broth. I like a thicker soup. I am as HUGE fan of the Instant Pot. I am down 30 pounds since August. I love that I can cook a good meal an am no longer eating all the junk.
Only think I would do a little different is use less of the Pepper Flakes. I do feel that it was a bit to spicy. I also added a bay leave.
Don’t get me wrong..this is AMAZING! Looking forward to all the hams my boyfriend wants to cook. He knows save me the bone. There is soup in the future.