If pressure cooking also yields hard beans, it’s not the recipe. It’s your beans. I’ve learned over the years that beans have a shelf life of one year, and I’ve even taken home beans from the store that are bad. It’s very frustrating, but it’s not the acid or the recipe. I was going to suggest, it could also be that your slow cooker operates at a lower temperature than mine but your comment about the pressure cooker confirms the issue. If you happen to have your beans around still, you could test my theory by cooking them after an 8 hour soak and see if they ever soften. Beans should soften after a simmer of 1 hour for sure.

I was concerned because I remembered reading that beans won’t cook properly with acids which prevent their cell walls from softening. I figured I must be wrong because look at these positive reviews. After it completely failed to soften the beans I tried to rescue it by pressure-cooking it but to no avail. My daughter suggested maybe the positive reviews were by people who prefer extra crunchy beans. How foolish of me to assume that everyone appreciates properly cooked beans. Cook your beans first, then use them for this dish.

Thanks so much Chari. If you ever get the chance to make this recipe with gigantes (extra large white beans), they turn out so creamy and really shine in this recipe.

I wish I could give this recipe more than 5 stars. I am thankful that I landed here today because I can’t stress enough how wonderful these turned out. When I took a quick look at the ingredient list, I immediately knew I had to try this. I can now tell you that I am officially obsessed with how great the flavor is! Hats off to you for such a phenomenal recipe!

Since canned vegetables are already cooked, you can use them at the very end of the cooking cycle and just heat them through. This is so the texture doesn’t become overly mushy. Hope you let us know how it goes.

Making them right now. I’ll keep ya posted. Ty

Thanks Robyn for your glowing review. Happy thanksgiving to you!

I made this for Thanksgiving dinner, and was is absolutely amazing. I will be coming back to this recipe again and again. Thank you so much!