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Let Us Help You Make Dinner Tonight With Recipes Your Family Will Love! Gigantes plaki (Greek baked gigantes) is a classic Greek recipe, consisting of 'giant' beans baked in a tomato sauce along with plenty of fresh herbs, which give a really unique taste. This Gigantes recipe takes some time to prepare, but it's all worth it! Gigantes plaki, or baked giant beans, are about as Greek and about as good as a dish can be.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have gigantes plaki (giant baked beans) using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans):
- Make ready 1/2 kg giant beans
- Take 3 medium dry onions processed in a food processor
- Make ready 6 sliced carrots
- Take 8 celery sprigs coarsely chopped
- Make ready 1 can tomato grated
- Get 1/2 cup olive oil
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Get salt - pepper
- Make ready 2 vegetable stock cubes
- Get 3 sliced country sausages
- Take corn oil for frying
- Prepare crumbled feta cheese (optional)
Excellent as an appetizer or as a light meal on its own. Some recipes for Greek baked giant beans (Gigantes Plaki) require cooking the tomato sauce separately and then combine everything in a pan. 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. And that is what you're cooking with in this dish — giant white beans like Lima or butter beans baked in a tomato based sauce.
Instructions to make Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans):
- Soak the beans overnight in plenty of water.
- The next day, strain and boil in a pressure cooker with plenty of water.
- 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.
- Remove the beans from the pressure cooker and strain. Let them stand in a bowl.
- 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.
- Close the pressure cooker and boil the vegetables for about 15 minutes (after the valve starts releasing steam).
- Put some olive oil in a frying pan and sauté the sausages.
- Heat the oven at 180 degrees.
- Put the giant beans in a deep oven tray, the vegetables and the sausages with their oil on top.
- Stir all the ingredients well.
- Place the tray in the oven and bake for about 1 hour till all the sauce is absorbed.
- Stir the food a couple of times while baking. Serve with crumbled feta on top and hot fresh bread!
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. And that is what you're cooking with in this dish — giant white beans like Lima or butter beans baked in a tomato based sauce. This is a perfect side or a meal in itself. Soak the beans overnight in plenty of water. Drain, rinse, then place in a pan covered with water.
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