This easy recipe for canning dry beans without soaking is a great, inexpensive method to have all kinds of dry beans on your shelves for use anytime. Canning dry beans saves money, but it is also healthier than buying canned beans from the grocery store, because you know what is going into your beans. No preservatives are added, you can add how much salt or no salt, plus you can season the beans to your preference. Cumin, chili powder, jalapenos – whatever you desire can be added to your jars of beans when canning at home.

Basic Steps for Canning Dry Beans

Rinse the beans
Add 1/2 cup of unsoaked beans to each pint jar (1 cup for each quart jar)
Optional add 1/2 tsp canning salt to pints (1 teaspoon of salt for quarts) or desired seasonings
Fill each jar with hot water to one inch of headspace
Wipe jar rims, add lids
Processing time of 75 minutes for pints, 90 minutes for quarts

No-Soak Canning Dry Beans

The options are to soak your beans before canning or to use the no-soak method. I prefer the no-soak method which is the easy way

If you want soaked beans, add enough water to cover beans and overnight soak them for 12-24 hours in a large stockpot, drain water and then rinse with fresh water.

I prefer the no-soak method, because it is easier and faster, plus you can judge how many jars you will need based on the amount of dry beans. A pound of beans is about one cup, which would be two pint jars of canned beans. Also I feel that soaking the beans allows them to get too soft and mushy after canning. When I use the no-soak method, I feel they turn out just right for the recipes that I use them in.

Here are some black beans I used recently that I had canned without soaking.

Detailed Steps for Canning Dry Beans

For this canning batch, I wanted to can 4 different types of beans. I canned kidney, pinto, black and white northern beans.

4 types of dry beans, kidney, pinto, black and white northern beanst — 4 types of dry beans

Rinse the beans and remove any bad beans.

Add 1/2 cup dry beans to each pint jar (1 cup for quarts).

Adding 1/2 cup dry pinto beans to the pint jar for canning dry beans — Adding 1/2 cup dry pinto beans to the pint jar

5 jars filled with 1/2 cup of dry beans each, 2 jars kidney and then one jar of white, pinto and black beans — Five jars with 1/2 cup of different types of dry beans

Add seasonings or salt, if desired. Then fill the canning jars to 1-inch headspace with boiling water.

Filling jar of dry beans with boiling water for canning dry beans — Filling jar of dry kidney beans with boiling water

Jars of dry beans filled with boiling water

Remove the air bubbles with a bubble popper. Wipe the rims with a paper towel, add the canning lids and screw bands.

Broth is a low-acid food and requires canning in a pressure canner. See my article on beginners guide to canning for a complete guide on canning.

Place jars into the pressure canner and process according to your canner’s manufacturer’s instructions. Processing pint jars for 75 minutes. Process quart jars for 90 minutes.

I use the NESCO Electric Pressure Canner. I have included step by step instructions on how to use the NESCO Electric Canner on my website.

When the process time is complete and the canner has had time to depressurize, remove the hot jars with a jar lifter and place the canner jars of hot beans on a dish towel on the counter and do not disturb for 24 hours.

Enjoy!

This recipe can be used for canning any dried beans, including kidney beans, pinto beans, and navy beans. I have canned all of these beans and also have canned a mixture of beans and seasoning to use as chili beans. I will be posting that recipe in the future. Canning beans is an easy, healthy and money-saving thing to do. There are so many ways to use home-canned beans.

Home food preservation with home canning is such a great way to save on the grocery store and have shelf stable and healthy and quick meals and other food ready to eat in your pantry.

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Recipe for Canning Dry Beans without Soaking

Yield: 1/2 cup dry beans per pint

Basic Steps for Can

Ingredients

Dry Beans (kidney, black, pinto, white northern)
Water
Desired seasonings, such as salt

Instructions

Rinse the beans
Add 1/2 cup to each pint jar (1 cup for quarts)
Optional add 1/2 tsp canning salt to pints (1 tsp for quarts) or desired seasonings
Fill each jar with hot water to 1 inch headspace
Wipe rims, add lids
Process for 75 minutes for pints, 90 minutes for quarts