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Canning pinto beans

Filed Under: Beans, Seasonal Winter Tagged With: Beans

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Home-canned pinto beans are delicious and wonderful to have on hand.

When you can them yourself at home, you can make them without all the added salt that commercially-canned pinto beans have.

It’s nice to have jars of different sizes available so you can open just the size you need.

You can use these canned pinto beans to quickly make refried beans (recipe link.)

Contents hide
  • 1 Quantities of dried pinto beans needed
  • 2 The recipe
  • 3 Canning pinto beans
    • 3.1 Ingredients
    • 3.2 Instructions
    • 3.3 Nutrition
  • 4 Reference information
  • 5 Recipe notes
  • 6 Recipe source
  • 7 Cooking with canning
  • 8 Nutrition

Quantities of dried pinto beans needed

Numbers are approximate guidelines.

  • Allow 175 g (6 oz) dried pinto beans per ½ litre (US pint) jar.
  • Allow 350 g (¾ lbs) dried pinto beans per litre (US quart) jar.

The recipe

Jar size choices: ¼ litre (½ US pint) or ½ litre (1 US pint) or 1 litre (US quart)

Processing method: Pressure canning only

Yield: varies

Headspace: 3 cm (1 inch)

Processing pressure: 10 lbs (69 kPa) weighted gauge, 11 lbs (76 kpa) dial gauge (adjust pressure for your altitude when over 300 metres / 1000 feet)

Processing time: Half-litres (pints) 75 minutes; litres (quarts) 90 minutes

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Canning pinto beans

How to home pressure can pinto beans, following tested USDA methods
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword Beans
Prep Time 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time 2 hours hours
Total Time 2 hours hours 15 minutes minutes
Servings 1 varies
Calories 122kcal

Ingredients

  • pinto beans (dried)
  • water

Instructions

  • Either (a) long-soak the dried pinto beans overnight covered with water, OR (b) quick-soak by covering them with water in a saucepan, bring to a boil, boil 2 minutes and let stand for an hour.
  • However the beans were soaked, drain and discard the soaking water.
  • Put in a pot, cover with fresh water, boil 30 minutes.
  • Pack in jars: quarter-litre (½ US pint) or half-litre (1 US pint) or 1 litre (US quart)
  • Leave 3 cm (1 inch) headspace.
  • OPTIONAL: Add a pinch of pickling salt or non-bitter, non-clouding salt sub.
  • Top up each jar with clean boiling water (such as from a kettle, for instance) or with the water you just boiled them in, maintaining headspace.
  • Debubble; adjust headspace.
  • Wipe jar rims.
  • Put lids on.
  • Processing pressure: 10 lbs (69 kPa) weighted gauge, 11 lbs (76 kpa) dial gauge (adjust pressure for your altitude when over 300 metres / 1000 feet)
  • Processing time: quarter-litre (½ US pint) 75 minutes; half-litre (1 US pint) 75 minutes; 1 litre (US quart) 90 minutes.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 122kcal | Carbohydrates: 22.4g | Protein: 7.7g | Fat: 0.6g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 1mg | Fiber: 7.7g | Sugar: 0.3g

Processing guidelines below are for weighted-gauge pressure canner. See also if applicable: Dial-gauge pressures.

Jar SizeTime0 to 300 m (0 - 1000 feet) pressureAbove 300 m (1000 ft) pressure
¼ litre (½ US pint)75 mins10 lbs15 lbs
½ litre (1 US pint)75 mins10 lbs15 lbs
1 litre (1 US quart)90 mins10 lbs15 lbs

Reference information

How to pressure can.

When pressure canning, you must adjust the pressure for your altitude.

More information about Salt-Free Canning in general.

Recipe notes

  • The USDA guidelines don’t mention the smaller ¼ litre (½ US pint) size jar, but it’s fine to do so, and it’s really handy to have that smaller 1 cup size for mashing into dips and for recipes, etc. It just has to have the same processing time as the next tested size up.
  • The beans must be partially rehydrated by the methods described before going into the jars. It is not safe to put dried beans in a jar and fill with water, nor will the quality of the product be good either.

Recipe source

Beans or Peas – Shelled, Dried: All Varieties. In: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Complete guide to home canning. Agriculture information bulletin No. 539. 2015. Page 4-5.

Modifications: none

Cooking with canning

Fiesta cornbread casserole

Refried beans

Nutrition

Serving size: ½ cup (100 g)

Per ½ cup / 100 g: 122 calories, 1 mg sodium

Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: ½ cup / 100 g = 3 points; 1 cup / 200 g = 5 points

pinto beans nutrition

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

* PointsPlus™ calculated by healthycanning.com. Not endorsed by Weight Watchers® International, Inc, which is the owner of the PointsPlus® registered trademark.

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Tagged With: Beans

Filed Under: Beans, Seasonal Winter Tagged With: Beans

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Comments

  1. Nikki

    February 06, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    5 stars
    When pre-cooking, can you add seasonings other than salt? I usually add oregano and cumin to my beans. I also typically add garlic, bell pepper and onion. Can I add these ingredients when pre-cooking and then pressure can accordingly?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      June 20, 2021 at 7:04 pm

      The dry seasonings are all pre authorized as it were, for sure. (See: Safe Tweaking of recipes). As for adding veg, check with a Master Food Preservers help group.

      Reply
  2. Michelle Prater

    November 24, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    5 stars
    After canning and cooling my beans have soaked up all the water in the jar. The jars are sealed and the beans look good bit there is very little liquid left. What did I do wrong and are they on to keep?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      June 20, 2021 at 11:58 pm

      That can happen from time to time. It can depend on how old the beans are, and oftentimes we don’t know how long they sat in warehouses before reaching us. This is part of the reason for the USDA being so explicit about wanting the pre-soak and pre-cook of the beans before canning. Your beans are fine.

      Reply
  3. Crystal

    September 13, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    Why can you can pinto beans but not refried beans?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 21, 2020 at 8:21 pm

      Too dense. Make your refried beans from the canned beans. Directions here: https://www.healthycanning.com/refried-beans-from-home-canning/

      Reply
  4. Deana

    August 01, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Can you pressure cook the pinto beans As you normally would, with all the seasoning and then can using 10pound pressure about 15-20 minutes?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 24, 2020 at 2:57 am

      The directions are seriously meant to be followed just as written, in a certified pressure canner. No shortcuts, and no other alternative ways of canning.

      Reply
  5. Jessica Allen

    April 02, 2020 at 1:14 am

    Could I use an instant pot to do this?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      May 19, 2020 at 4:36 pm

      Absolutely not. If you do not have a pressure canner, you can freeze cooked beans instead.

      Reply
  6. New to canning

    January 18, 2019 at 2:33 am

    Just a quick question could you please tell me if you could have your beans already cooked and have them good and hot and have your jars washed and hot and just can beans that way would they keep

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 09, 2019 at 2:07 am

      No, they would probably go bad fast, and in doing so they would be doing you a favour, because otherwise you run the risk of botulism. If you can’t pressure can them properly, then just keep them as dry and cook up quickly as needed in a regular pressure cooker.

      Reply
  7. Lauren Brown

    January 09, 2018 at 3:57 pm

    Hi There –

    Where did you get this information you quoted below? I always pressure can dried beans that have been rinsed and they are fine. If you presoak or precook them, they are often mushy and inedible. Is this a fact, or merely your opinion?

    “The beans must be partially rehydrated by the methods described before going into the jars. It is not safe to put dried beans in a jar and fill with water, nor will the quality of the product be good either.”

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      January 12, 2018 at 3:32 am

      Hi Lauren, Healthy Canning promotes research-based safe canning methods as developed by the USDA. You can find your method listed under “false shortcuts” here: https://www.healthycanning.com/canning-beans/#false-short-cuts

      Your “method” is highly recommended against by all home canning specialists and labelled as unsafe.

      Reply
    • Paula

      September 01, 2018 at 9:46 pm

      how full should the jars be for dry pintos

      Reply
      • Healthy Canning

        September 11, 2019 at 6:27 pm

        You do not put the pinto beans in dry, you put them in prepared as directed.

        Reply
    • Jeanie

      June 06, 2020 at 11:23 pm

      I haven canned beans yet but I have found that some lighter colored pintos cook in a couple of hours to perfect soup consistency without soaking. The darker ones I soak and some times they still take all day to cook. I’m wondering if the lighter ones could be done without presoaking?

      Reply
      • Healthy Canning

        June 15, 2020 at 11:25 pm

        The presoaking is mandatory for safety.

        Reply
  8. Kari

    August 24, 2016 at 5:20 am

    Is it okay to can the beans with chicken broth instead of water? Will it affect the processing time?

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      August 24, 2016 at 12:37 pm

      Hi Kari, I actually do not have an answer to that. I know people on the Internet say they do, but Healthy Canning likes to have a citation from a reputable source for everything as backup for statements, and I don’t recall seeing it mentioned anywhere. But I’m going to refer you to a Master Food Preserver’s group, who may be able to help. The group is here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCCE-Master-Food-Preservers-of-El-Dorado-County-456649991034665 . I’d be interested to hear what they say.

      Reply
If you need FAST or relatively immediate canning help or answers, please try one of these Master Food Preserver groups; they are more qualified than we are and have many hands to help you. Many of them even operate telephone hotlines in season.

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