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

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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. There are countless variations of this classic dish and the recipe below is our family's favorite.

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

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

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. 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.

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!

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. This way, the sauce has enough time to caramelize and get a hint of smokiness from the charred tops of the beans. Spread the beans in an oven dish. Soak the beans overnight in plenty of water.

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