Southern Style Green Beans & PIP Rice – Instant Pot

A long, long time ago my wife and I used to sit around and French cut a bunch of fresh green beans. Then she would cook them down Southern style (what other way is there, really?) with potatoes and she would make a huge pot of rice.

It’s always been a favorite of ours, but it’s work dude. Frenching green beans ain’t quick! Cooking those suckers down on the stove ain’t quick! So one day I was bugging her to make some green beans and potatoes and she kept putting me off – too much work blah blah blah.

I’m no quitter though and the nagging continued. Finally, she relented and threw in un-Frenched green beans, potatoes and other goodies into her new fangled electric pressure cooker. This was way before Instant Pot. There were no real recipes out there. This was totally untested and of course, I didn’t have much faith in the process.

But when the food was done, it was like she had cooked it down on the stove! Yes! Needless to say we have it all the time now because it’s so damn quick. Sometimes we put bacon, sometimes leftover ham, sometimes sausage and honestly, sometimes no meat at all.

We love to eat this over hot, fluffy white rice, but if rice is not your thing, just skip that step. We cook the rice at the same time in a stackable pot pot in pot method. Even if you’re not gonna eat the rice with the green beans, you could cook it anyway and freeze it for another time. You can’t go wrong with a big slab of cornbread either!

Before we get into it though, I just wanted to clarify something about the meat in this. You don’t have to use bacon or sausage or ham. You can lay a smoked turkey wing on top of the beans or you can use Canadian bacon – bonus points if you made it yourself! Vegetarian version, leave out the meat and sub veggie broth for chicken.