Instant Pot Greek Green Beans

Instant Pot Greek Green Beans–tender cooked green beans with potatoes, tomatoes, olive oil and feta. Serve as a side dish or make it a main dish by serving with a loaf of crusty bread.

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Instant Pot Greek Green Beans

These Instant Pot Greek green beans are a perfect summer dish. Use fresh green beans and fresh garden tomatoes for all the summer feels. You can make this dish and serve it as a side to grilled meats or you can make it the main dish and serve with a loaf of crusty bread and lots of feta cheese.

This recipe is my Instant Pot take on fasolakia lathera. Fasolakia lathera is a category of Greek recipes where seasonal vegetables are cooked in olive oil. Fasolakia Lathera literally means “the ones with the oil.” Simply put, this means that you cook your vegetables in a lot of olive oil. Since my version uses the Instant Pot to steam the vegetables they are not cooked in the olive oil but rather they are tossed in the olive oil. So definitely not an authentic recipe. But really tasty nonetheless. Don’t forget the feta it’s the star of the dish!

To make Instant Pot Green Green Beans you’ll need…

• A 6 or 8 quart Instant Pot*
• A steamer basket–I like the Avokado silicone steamer basket*
• 1 pound fresh green beans, washed and trimmed–I buy mine in bag and they are already washed and trimmed and ready to go. This makes prep time close to just 5 minutes!
• 1 medium Russet potato, peeled and sliced–You can also use red or yellow potatoes
• 8-16 oz of grape or cherry tomatoes–I only used 8 ounces but wished that I had used more. I love tomatoes!
• 5 Tbsp of olive oil–it’s quite a bit of olive oil but it adds flavor and richness to the dish
• 1 cup diced onions–for flavor
• ½ tsp sugar–for flavor
• ½ tsp kosher salt–for flavor
• ¼ tsp pepper–for flavor
• Feta cheese, to taste–to add a tangy, rich and slightly salty flavor

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How to make Instant Pot Green Green Beans

1. Pour 1 ½ cups water into your Instant Pot liner. This is necessary to bring the pot to pressure.
2. Add green beans, potatoes and tomatoes to a steamer basket. The green beans are on the bottom of the steamer basket, then the potatoes and finally the tomatoes. I like the Avokado silicone steamer basket* because it’s large and flexible. You don’t need a trivet underneath it. Lower the basket into the Instant Pot. 
3. Cover Instant Pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to sealing. Set the manual/pressure cook button to 1 minute. Yes the green beans only need 1 minute to cook! The pot will take about 5-8 minutes to reach pressure. When time is up perform a quick release. This will quickly stop the cooking process so that the beans don’t get mushy.
4. Remove the basket from the Instant Pot and set aside. Dump out the water from the Instant Pot liner and dry out the liner.
5. Turn Instant Pot to sauté. When display says hot on the display add in the oil and onions. Sauté for 5 minutes or until onions are soft. Turn off sauté setting. 
6. Add in the green beans, potatoes and tomatoes and toss well in the oil. Toss in the sugar, salt and pepper. Add in feta and extra salt and pepper to taste if needed. Serve and enjoy! Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.

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