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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 get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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):
- Make ready 1/2 kg giant beans
- Get 3 medium dry onions processed in a food processor
- Make ready 6 sliced carrots
- Get 8 celery sprigs coarsely chopped
- Take 1 can tomato grated
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil
- Prepare 2 tsp sugar
- Prepare salt - pepper
- Make ready 2 vegetable stock cubes
- Prepare 3 sliced country sausages
- Make ready corn oil for frying
- Take crumbled feta cheese (optional)
Giant beans grow in the northern part of Greece. 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. Gigantes plaki is a deliciously hearty vegan dish made with giant beans, baked in a delicious tomato sauce until the beans absorb all the juices and flavour.
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 feel embarrassed that I have never posted this dish before. This one-pot recipe makes an easy Greek giant beans recipe for an easy vegetarian midweek meal. Try our beans in tomato sauce. Gigantes plaki is simply giant white beans baked in a rich and fragrant cinnamon sauce. It's a beautiful Greek dish that's naturally vegan and Gigantes plaki is the best example of these plant-based dishes and one of our favourite 'mezedes' (small plates).
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