Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans)
Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans)

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Gigandes plaki, also spelled gigantes or yigandes is a Greek dish known in English as giant baked beans. The name Gigantes comes from the Greek word for giants, hence giant beans. Gigandes plaki is a vegetarian meze dish that consists of large dried white beans.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have gigantes plaki (giant baked beans) using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans):
  1. Make ready 1/2 kg giant beans
  2. Prepare 3 medium dry onions processed in a food processor
  3. Get 6 sliced carrots
  4. Take 8 celery sprigs coarsely chopped
  5. Get 1 can tomato grated
  6. Get 1/2 cup olive oil
  7. Take 2 tsp sugar
  8. Take salt - pepper
  9. Make ready 2 vegetable stock cubes
  10. Get 3 sliced country sausages
  11. Get corn oil for frying
  12. Get crumbled feta cheese (optional)

I find it a lot easier (and with less cleanup) to just add all of the ingredients to the pan and let them bake in the oven for about an hour. This is one of Greece's traditional recipes. Giant beans grow in the northern part of Greece. This Greek Style Baked Bean recipe, gigantes plaki, is delicious served both hot and cold as a meal or side dish.

Instructions to make Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans):
  1. Soak the beans overnight in plenty of water.
  2. The next day, strain and boil in a pressure cooker with plenty of water.
  3. From the time the pressure cooker's valve starts to let steam off let cook for about 1 hour so that they boil and get tender.
  4. Remove the beans from the pressure cooker and strain. Let them stand in a bowl.
  5. Put the onions, carrots, celery (together with the sprigs, finely chopped), the tomato, the olive oil, the sugar, salt, pepper, vegetable stock cubes and about 1 litre of water in the same pressure cooker.
  6. Close the pressure cooker and boil the vegetables for about 15 minutes (after the valve starts releasing steam).
  7. Put some olive oil in a frying pan and sauté the sausages.
  8. Heat the oven at 180 degrees.
  9. Put the giant beans in a deep oven tray, the vegetables and the sausages with their oil on top.
  10. Stir all the ingredients well.
  11. Place the tray in the oven and bake for about 1 hour till all the sauce is absorbed.
  12. Stir the food a couple of times while baking. Serve with crumbled feta on top and hot fresh bread!

In most Greek homes, beans are a staple. This dish, appropriately named gigantes, or giants, calls for large lima beans. These are great served warm but also delicious right out of the. This one-pot recipe makes an easy Greek giant beans recipe for an easy vegetarian midweek meal. Try our beans in tomato sauce.

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