

With it’s unique sweet and tart dressing and stunning color combination, this salad made quite an impression at a recent Italian BBQ! Admiration came with recipe requests and I realized I did not want to recommend spending all morning pressure cooking each bean variety individually. I decided to find an easier way.

Just as I was about to get experimenting, a reader published his results on pressure steaming beans. Reading this reader’s bean discovery gave me a little more confidence than usual at the beginning of my experiment – it was not unrewarded.

This recipe utilizes three cooking zones of the pressure cooker, three cooking methods (Boiling, Steaming and Bain marie) plus a little trick that involves using your freezer to get green beans to last in the pressure cooker for 13 minutes – even though they are usually ready in just three.

Don’t worry… despite all of the technical innovations, it is still an easy recipe!

Pressure Cooker Accessories Pr. Cook Time Pr. Level Open 5 L or larger steamer basket 13-15 min. High (2) Natural