Linda's Pressure Cooker Lima Beans

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 large smoked ham hocks
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 (12 ounce) packages frozen lima beans
• 2 teaspoons mccormick's montreal brand steak seasoning
• 1 pinch thyme
• 1 pinch chives
• 2 carrots, pared and chunked
• 2 celery ribs, with leaves diced
• 1 small onion, diced
• 2 scallions, diced part and pale green part

Recipe

• 1 put the hocks and water into your pressure cooker and set for one hour on high pressure.
• 2 when done, remove to a bowl while the rest of the ingredients cook.
• 3 add all the veggies and seasonings to the liquid in the pressure cooker and set to high pressure for one hour.
• 4 meanwhile, pick the meat out of the hocks and dice.
• 5 when the time is up on the pressure cooker let it cool down naturally and then add the meat back to the cooker.
• 6 test a lima bean - they should be creamy with no grainy texture at all. if they are grainy turn the pressure cooker on for about 15 more minutes.
• 7 serve it up with yankee corn bread!
• 8 this recipe is for frozen lima beans, not dried or canned.