Approximately 10 cups of cooked drained garbanzo beans
Soak garbanzo beans in plenty of water for 8 or more hours
Drain the soaked garbanzo beans, rinse, and add to the Instant Pot base. Bury the onion part way into beans. In order to easily remove them when cooking is finished, place the remaining ingredients on top of the beans. Barely over the beans and veggies with water.
Set the Instant Pot to high pressure. Pressure cook for 18 minutes. Let naturally release for 20 minutes, then release pressure. Remove the veggies from the pot and put in your compost bin (if you use one). Season with salt & pepper to taste, if desired.
Strain the beans and keep the ‘aqua fava’ (the rich broth) for another use, it can also be frozen. I use it in a vegetable soup into which I add garbanzo beans.
After the beans are well drained and cool, spread them out on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet with sides (called a jelly roll pan), and freeze in the pan (if your freezer will accommodate the pan), or, simply scoop the cooled beans into 1-quart Zip Lock freezer bags and freeze what you won’t use within a week. I got three full bags from my 2 pounds of beans. When frozen in the Zip Lock bags, you can lightly tap a bag on the counter and the beans will become loose and scoop-able.
Watch me make this easy recipe here:
