The Instant Pot is a great tool for quickly cooking dried beans and making soup at the last minute. This is our Instant Pot Italian White Bean Soup recipe.

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Instant Pot Italian Bean Soup

Dave Cole

This is an Instant Pot Italian Bean Soup that features sausage and kale. This is a low-cost nutritional soup that provides a full meal. Even with dried beans it can be made in an hour.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 50

Course Soup

Cuisine Italian

Servings 6

Equipment

Instant Pot

Ingredients

Soaking Beans

1 pound Great Northern beans
6 cups water
2 teaspoon salt

Soup

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion diced
2 carrots diced
2 stalks celery diced
4 cloves garlic minced
5 cups chicken stock
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 bay leaves
1 15 ounce can diced tomato
1 teaspoon red pepper flake
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon thyme
½ teaspoon black pepper
3 links Italian sausage crumbled (about 1 pound)
One bundle kale chopped

Instructions

Add 6 cups water, salt and beans to Instant Pot. Pressure cook on high for 30 minutes. Let natural release for 15 minutes and then manually release. Drain and set aside.
Set Instant Pot to sauté and add oil. Add sausage and start browning. Add onion, carrots, celery and garlic. Cook until softened about 5 minutes. Add drained beans to Instant Pot. Add remaining ingredients.
Cook on high pressure for 10 minutes and manually release. Adjust for salt to taste.

Notes

You can substitute vegetable stock and eliminate sausage for a vegetarian version. While beans are cooking you can sauté sausage and vegetables on the stovetop to save time. To make a soupier version add more water or stock before or after pressure cooking.

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One of our favorites is our Instant Pot Italian White Bean Soup. This hearty soup features beans with sausage and kale. It is a complete meal and the entire process takes a little over an hour, most of it hands off.

This is a healthy meal that is easy to prepare and inexpensive. The cost of ingredients is well under $10 for a soup that can serve 6 to 8 people.

For the sausage we remove them from the casing and crumble them in the Instant Pot to brown.

We buy Italian sausage from our butcher for about $2 a pound. Three links of sausage weigh about one pound. We use 2 mild Italian sausages and one spicy Italian sausage.

Of course if you want a vegetarian version you could simply leave out the sausage and replace the chicken broth with vegetable broth.

Our version of Instant Pot Italian White Bean Soup is fairly thick, more like a stew. If you wanted to make a soupier version you can add more water or stock. This could be done either before or after it cooks under pressure. If you do it after simply let it simmer for a few minutes.

I have no idea if this soup is authentic to what is served in Italy. I do know it is similar to Ribollita, an Italian soup made with leftover minestrone and bread. (Serious Eats has a complete recipe for Ribollita). We call it Italian because it is similar to the type of white bean soups you would find in Italy.

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