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Instant Pot Pork Green Chili with Beans

Instant Pot Pork Green Chili is an easy green chile stew with beans. It’s a hearty comfort food recipe that will stick to your ribs and feed a crowd.

Flavorful Green Chili with tender fall-apart pork tastes like it cooked all day but is done in no time using your instant pot. Your family is going to love this easy chili recipe.

Top down view of a bowl of pork chili topped with avocado and cilantro with bowls of shredded cheese, cilantro, green onions, and tortilla chips off to the side.

Why I Love this Instant Pot Pork Green Chili Recipe

I absolutely love spicy Pork Green Chili, especially on a chilly day. All of the ingredients are simple and easy to find in most grocery stores. Cooking it in the instant pot makes the pork shoulder fall-apart tender and delicious and a hands-free recipe.

This recipe is perfect for tailgating. It makes a large batch and is so easy to serve. It’s Gluten-free and dairy-free too!

Ingredients used to make Pork Green Chili

Pork Green Chili Ingredients

Please note that this recipe can be cut in half. I make the whole recipe and freeze it in airtight containers for up to 3 months.

  • Pork – We use a boneless pork shoulder.
  • Dried beans – Great northern.
  • Chicken stock – Fat-free, low sodium
  • Yellow Onion – Or white onion
  • Green chilies – Roasted, peeled, and diced. We buy them already prepared
  • Garlic cloves
  • Ground Cumin
  • Salt – We use kosher salt
  • Ground Black Pepper
  • Olive oil – Or a neutral cooking oil such as vegetable or canola oil

How to make Green Chili

  1. Trim excess fat from the pork shoulder and cut it into 2-inch pork chunks.
  2. Push the saute mode on the instant pot and drizzle olive oil over the bottom. Line the bottom of the instant pot with large chunks of pork until browned. Cook in batches removing each batch with a slotted spoon before adding the next batch.
  3. Remove all of the browned meat. If brown bits have accumulated on the bottom of the instant pot, you can deglaze the pot with a little chicken stock.
  4. Add the onion, chilies, cumin, salt, and pepper to the instant pot and saute until the onion starts to soften. Add in the garlic and cook for one minute.
  5. Add the pork, beans, and chicken stock to the onion mixture. Note: you will want to just cover the ingredients with the chicken stock for a thicker green chili. If you want more of a soup you can add more chicken stock.
  6. Put the lid on the instant pot and set the vent to sealing. Set the manual mode on high pressure for 50 minutes. Once the cook time is up, let the instant pot naturally release for 10 minutes. Carefully release any remaining pressure and serve.

Do I have to use an instant pot?

No, you do not. You can use a dutch oven or soup pot. After you brown your meat and saute your onion and peppers, combine all of your ingredients just like I did in step 5 above. Cook the pork green chili for 1-1/2 to 2 hours or until the beans are tender.

You can also put all of the ingredients into your slow cooker and cook for 4 hours on high or 8 hours on low.

3/4 view of a bowl filled with green chili pork stew garnished with avocado, cilantro and cheese.

What is the difference between Green Chili and Green Chili Verde?

They are synonymous. Chili Verde means a stew containing beef or pork and hot green peppers.

What are the best peppers to use

If you’re looking for a “Colorado” Green Chili you will want to use a pepper called a Pueblo Chile. If you want to make “New Mexico Green Chili”, you would probably use a Hatch Green Chile. Both peppers have different heat levels so you can make your green chili pork as hot as you want.

My Pork Green Chili recipe with Beans and our Green Chili Pork filling recipe uses Hatch Chiles that are pre-roasted, peeled, and diced. Hatch Chilies are also known as New Mexico Peppers. I used to roast my own, and since finding these prepared chilies, I no longer do that. Some grocery stores carry bags of prepared peppers in the frozen section of their stores as well.

Green Chile Peppers Substitutuions

If you want to roast your own green chilies such as we did in our Green Chile Pulled Pork recipe, you can use any or a combination of the following:

  • Anaheim pepper
  • Poblano peppers
  • Pasillas
  • Jalapeno
  • Serrano
  • Habenaro
  • Banana peppers

It usually comes down to what you have available. Here are 20 popular Spicy Peppers with their heat level that may help you use the right pepper for you.

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Top down view of a bowl of pork chili topped with avocado and cilantro with bowls of shredded cheese, cilantro, green onions, and tortilla chips off to the side.

What is the best pork to use?

I use a boneless pork shoulder, also known as a pork butt. This pork roast has more fat throughout than a pork tenderloin and has so much flavor.

If your pork shoulder isn’t boneless, just cube it, removing as much of the meat as you can, and then when you add all of the meat back to the instant pot, put the bone back in too. It will add a lot of flavor and you can remove it before serving your green chili.

Once our Chili is cooked, I serve it by putting the large chunks of pork in the bottom of a bowl and lightly shredding some of it, and leaving some of it in larger chunks. I find that it’s a thicker heartier stew consistency this way.

What are the best dried beans to use?

Great Northern or Cannellini beans are what I recommend. 

Do I have to add beans? No, you can leave them out and your chili will still be delicious.

Can we use canned beans? Yes, you can. However, they will be over-cooked if added in the beginning. We recommend stirring them in as soon as the instant pot is finished cooking and letting them cook for 5 minutes followed by a quick release.

How do you sort dried beans? You will want to remove any broken beans and occasionally you will find small stones or debris. After sorting your beans, we put them in a strainer and rinse them.

Top down view of broken dried beans.

Do I have to soak the beans overnight? Nope, I didn’t soak or pre-cook these dried beans which makes this an easy recipe for pork green chili.

What you may need

I’ve had my favorite instant pot (electric pressure cooker) since they first came out and it is simple to use and works great.

Tips:

Too spicy! – If you need to mellow out the heat of your recipe, adding dairy is a great fix. You can use milk, cream, yogurt, or sour cream to take some of the heat out. You can also add an acid such as tomatoes or lime juice.

Pork Chunks – We cut the pork shoulder into large 2-inch cubes. The large surfaces of the pork chunks make it easier to brown the meat.

Brown chunks of meat.

You will want to brown the meat in batches so each pork chunk can sit on the bottom of the pot and sear. If you pile all of the meat in at once, it will just steam and not get brown.

Garnishes

While this Pork Green Chili recipe with beans is amazing as is, we often kick it up with these garnishes:

  • Fresh cilantro
  • Tortilla chips
  • Green onion
  • Avocado
  • Grated cheese
  • Sliced jalapenos

What to serve with Pork Green Chili

We like something a little sweet with a spicy dinner. Concha bread would be my first choice, but Cornbread would be delicious or how about finishing the meal with a Chocolate Chunk Cookie?

If you like this recipe, I think you’ll really enjoy our Pork and Poblano Stew and Green Chili Pork.

Close top down view of a bowl of pork stew with beans garnished with avocado, onion and cheese.

Pork Green Chili Recipe with White Beans

Author: Julie Menghini
Instant Pot Pork Green Chili is an easy green chili stew with beans. This hearty comfort food recipe will stick to your ribs and feed a crowd.
5 from 14 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Saute time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Course Main Dish, Soup
Cuisine American, Mexican
Keyword: Chili recipe, Green Chili Pork, Pork Stew
Servings: 14

Equipment

Ingredients
 
 

  • 4 lb pork shoulder cut into 2" pieces
  • 1 onion – yellow or white, diced
  • 4 garlic cloves minced
  • cups chicken stock – low sodium, low fat
  • 1 tbsp ground cumin
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper
  • 3/4 cup green chilies – we used fire-roasted hatch chilis. Add 1/2 cup for less spice or 1 cup for more spice.
  • olive oil or neutral cooking oil
  • 1 lb dried white beans – we used Great Northern variety, rinsed and sorted

Garnish suggestions: avocado, cilantro, shredded cheese, green onion, tortilla chips, green onions, sour cream.

Instructions
 

  • Remove any thick pieces of fat from the pork and cut it into 2-inch pieces.
  • Press the saute function on the instant pot and drizzle the bottom with olive oil or another neutral-flavored oil. Once hot, add the cubed pork. Don't pile in the meat. You want each piece to touch the bottom. Cook until browned, in batches if necessary. Remove the browned pork from the instant pot.
  • Deglaze the bottom of the instant pot with chicken stock if necessary or add additional oil. Add the onions, green chilis, cumin, salt, and pepper. Saute until the onions become soft. Add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Turn the instant pot off.
  • Put the beans and pork into the instant pot and cover the ingredients with the chicken stock. Stir to mix. Put the lid on the instant pot and set the vent to sealing. Press the manual function (some say pressure cook), high pressure for 50 minutes. Let the instant pot naturally release pressure for 10 minutes and then release the remaining pressure manually.

Nutrition

Calories: 274kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 26gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 585mgPotassium: 993mgFiber: 5gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 15IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 100mgIron: 5mg

Nutritional Disclaimer

This recipe was calculated using the exact brands and measurements I used to make this recipe. If you are following a strict diet please note changing anything will cause the nutritional info to change. My calculations are intended as a guide only.

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5 from 14 votes
Recipe Rating




Erica

Thursday 13th of October 2022

Made this last night with a small pork loin. Was looking for something hands off and this was perfect. I didnt even cut the loin, just shredded it afterward. Used some green enchilada sauce I had on hand instead of the chiles, and added a peeled, diced sweet potato to the mix with the hopes of a hiding another vegetable in the meal(worked! practically disintegrated and thickened the sauce). The beans cooked perfectly--not overly done. The flavors were great for both a toddler to enjoy and for us adults to add heat to. Thanks for the recipe and inspiration!

Julie Menghini

Thursday 13th of October 2022

That sounds amazing, Erica! I loved your tip that you cooked it whole and it shredded for you! The addition of the sweet potato would be delish too! Thank you for sharing. ~Julie

Liz

Friday 5th of November 2021

I've saved this one for our annual chili party on NY day...although it hasn't happened since 2019 so I guess it's not annual anymore.

Julie Menghini

Monday 8th of November 2021

Thanks, Liz! I hope everyone loves it as much as we do.

Rebecca

Tuesday 2nd of November 2021

This is such a tasty dish! The seasonings gave the pork a delightful flavor and it feeds so many!

Julie Menghini

Thursday 4th of November 2021

Thank you, Rebecca!

Ashley Lecker

Sunday 31st of October 2021

I love my instant pot and always looking for new recipes- I can't wait to try this!

Julie Menghini

Sunday 31st of October 2021

Thank you, Ashley! I hope you'll give it a try. We love it.

Kathi

Tuesday 26th of October 2021

Such a delicious recipe, the flavors all came together so quickly in the Instant Pot too! Love that appliance! Thanks for a fabulous recipe, making again for a tailgating party this weekend!

Julie Menghini

Tuesday 26th of October 2021

Thanks, Kathy! I've got some in the freezer that I'm craving too!

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