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

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

There are countless variations of this classic dish and the recipe below is our family's favorite. This recipe calls for parsley, celery, oregano and mint to flavor the delicate tomato sauce and beans. 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!

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!

The beans will come out creamy and tender with a flavorful thick tomato sauce. Greek Baked Giant Beans (Gigantes Plaki) Beans in tomato sauce, hard to say no to that. 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 - Giant Baked Beans. I found these extra large Greek dried beans at my local market and decided to give them a try.

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