I typically put in a cup of beans and 3 cups of water and blast it for an hour and let it natural release. Then when I get around to it I open the pot, put it on low saute for 30 minutes and add in things I want. This time I added canned roasted green chiles, tomato paste, frozen corn, ground cumin, ground guajillo chile, ground mexican oregano, salt, pepper, all spice, sage, and a bit extra water and let that chill and bubble a while.
Rice cooker is just 1 cup rice, 1 cup water, 1 cup frozen vegetables, turmeric, salt, pepper.
This is low effort for me, I set up the beans in the morning and sometimes leave them in the pot on warm after the natural release for a while before I do the saute part. I typically set up the rice, beans, oatmeal, and sometimes other things in the morning really quickly and let the robots do all the labor.
I don’t have a rice cooker, so naturally, I use my instapot to make rice. But when I make rice and beans, I also use the instapot to make beans… so I’m toying with the idea of just doing rice and beans in the same instapot at the same time… thoughts?