Pressure-Cooker Gigante Beans in Tomato Sauce

I’ve been doing it on the stove with canned butter beans. I follow directions up until adding the beans, but instead skip ahead to adding tomato and juices and let simmer on the stove without water. The beans don’t take on as much of the flavor but it’s still a huge hit.

My kids literally cheer when I add this to our menu. I’ve made it in the pressure cooker but lately I’ve been doing it on the stove with canned butter beans. I follow directions up until adding the beans, but instead skip ahead to adding tomato and juices and let simmer on the stove without water. The beans don’t take on as much of the flavor but it’s still a huge hit. Not sure why it’s so hard to find a variety of dried beans locally but improvising is life. My kids literally cheer when I add this to our menu. I’ve made it in the pressure cooker but lately I’ve been doing it on the stove with canned butter beans. I follow directions up until adding the beans, but instead skip ahead to adding tomato and juices and let simmer on the stove without water. The beans don’t take on as much of the flavor but it’s still a huge hit. Not sure why it’s so hard to find a variety of dried beans locally but improvising is life.

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