Instant Pot Jamaican Stew Peas
I can’t exaggerate how delicious this Instant Pot Jamaican Stew Peas recipe is! It is so delicious that my hubby requested it two days in a row. It is the Instant Pot version of my popular Jamaican Stew Peas with Dumplings (Spinners) recipe with minor tweaks. I have also perfected my Instant Pot Jamaican Rice and Peas recipe.
I enjoyed making this recipe in the Instant Pot because I basically added all the ingredients and set the pot and walked away.
How To Cook Instant Pot Jamaican Stew Peas?
The First Method With Dried Beans
- 1. To prepare this Instant Pot Jamaican Stew Peas, sort 1 pound or 2 cups of dried kidney beans removing debris and broken beans. Wash beans and cover with water at least 2 inches above beans.
- Â 2. Allow to soak for at least 6 hours or overnight, the following morning you discard water, Add kidney beans to Instant Pot with 8 cups of water and place the lid on sealing, cook on manual high pressure for 28 minutes. At the end of 28 minutes, use the Quick release method.
- 3. Make sure there are at least 3 cups of the bean broth in the instant pot along with the cooked beans. Add to the Instant pot the remaining ingredients, coconut milk, onion, garlic, ginger, green onions, carrot, thyme, allspice, salt, and dumplings.
- 4. Stir and close the knob (sealing) set the Instant Pot on High Pressure or Manual Pressure for 20 minutes. After the Instant Pot has beeped, allow it to Natural Release for 10 minutes then turn the knob to venting and Quick Release.
- 5 After it is finished releasing the steam, open the cover and remove Scotch bonnet pepper and thyme, then serve. It is delicious served with rice but it was so hearty I served it with a large salad.
The Second Method Uses Canned Beans
- Rinse and drain canned beans, place the beans in Instant Pot, add vegetable broth, coconut milk, onion, green onions, garlic, ginger, carrot, thyme, Scotch bonnet pepper, allspice, and salt
- To prepare dumplings, place gluten-free flour in a bowl, add salt and water, mix to form into a dough. Take pieces of dough and roll into the palm of your hands to form into cylindrical pieces or balls. Drop onto stew.
- Place the lid on the Instant Pot and set the knob to Sealing. Set Instant Pot to Manual mode, HP for 20 minutes.
- After finish pressure cooking, allow the Instant Pot to natural release for 10 minutes. Then Quick Release, turn the knob to Venting, placing a damp cloth over the vent. Be Careful.
- Remove lid and serv
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Very excited to find this recipe. I miss eating stew peas since moving away from my Jamaican friend. It turned out great. Will definitely add this to my meal rotation.
If I don’t have gluten free flour, could I sub with all purpose flour and still have it turn out?
Absolutely, just add enough water to form a dough, if it is too stick add extra flour, if it is too dry,add extra water.
What size Instant Pot is this recipe for?
Raven I have a 6 quart Instant Pot.
Made this tonight for my husband (he’s eating vegetarian) and it was dinner for the whole family. Success! Will definitely add some ground provisions, pumpkin and cho cho next time. And next time will probably be this weekend.
That’s awesome Natalie, I’m happy it was a success, love the addition of ground provisions, pumpkin and chocho, yummy! Thank you for your feedback.
Mines did not come out anything like your picture. What did I do wrong? Its not thick or even red like yours.
Cindy it depends on the beans you used, there are two types of kidney beans sold in the stores here in the USA, one is light kidney beans and the other is dark kidney beans. I only use dark kidney beans. For thicker stew peas, after you are finished, you could easily switch to saute mode and cook the stew peas stirring until it reaches the consistency you love or I bet if you let it cool some it will get very thick. Also please double check that you followed the instructions to the T.
Hi Michelle. I want to try this dish today and I have a quick question. You said to reserve the liquid from cooking the dry beans (option 2) in the Instant Pot. Then add the bean broth to the pot along with the beans and other ingredients. I’m so confused by this step of reserving the liquid separately when it’s going to go back into the same pot. Can you explain more? I don’t want to get it wrong! ?
I see what the problem is now. I need to separate the two methods. I added a method using dried kidney beans and one for canned kidney beans. I hope this helps.
Amazing. You did it again Michelle, with another awesome recipe. The results were fantastic. I added jamican pumpkin, yam and potatoes. I used whole wheat spelt flour for the dumplings. Stew peas and redpea soup are my favorite things. To make it into a soup I just cooked the beans in 8 cups of water and used all the bean broth. Increased the pimento seasoning to 1tsp. And decreased the coconut milk to 1/2 cup. Tastes great both ways. Thank you for sharing these great recipes. You have quickly became my favourite vegan food blogger! Cant wait to try all your recipes out.
Cee-cee, I’m so happy you enjoyed it and I love your adjustments. You made my day, thank you for your feedback.
Yummy yummy yummy!!
Made this today and it was delicious!!
I used cayenne pepper instead of scotch bonnet…lol.
I also added yucca/casavva… it added a nice thickness to it.
Thanks for the recipe.
Tamieka, I’m so happy you enjoyed it and I love your adjustments.
Hi Michelle, I didn’t see my post from yesterday and forgot everything I typed, so I created a much smaller post today. But I’m glad the post showed up and you were able to see it. Yes, I meant the Lion of Judah brand of soya chunks (not curls). Sorry about that.
Thank you Carolyn, I appreciate that.
Hello Michelle
This recipe looks really good, but I am not a vegan and would like to add meat as well. Any instructions on how do to do that? Either beef or smoked turkey would work for me.
Rasheda this is a vegan website, I suggest you use Google, I’m happy you stopped by anyway.
hi, about to try this recipe and I’m new to the instant pot! when cooking the peas initially in the pot you’ve mentioned high pressure for 35 mins but not what type of release to do? is it a quick release or 10min natural release. many thanks
Tee sorry about that quick release is fine.