Gigantes (greek Giant Baked Beans)

Name: Gigantes (greek Giant Baked Beans)
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Mediterranean, European, Greek
Ingredients: 227 grams bacon , chopped (or 6 oz. bacon and 6 oz good quality pork sausage, cut up) (optional); 454 grams diced tomatoes with juice (concasse); 3 larges carrots , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces; 2 stalks celery & leaves , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces; 454 grams dried butter beans or dried lima beans (soaked overnight); 2 Tbsps fresh dill , minced; 4 garlic cloves , minced; 2 Tbsps ketchup; 177 milliliters olive oil; 355 milliliters large onion , chopped (about; 1 teaspoons pepper; 1 red bell pepper , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces; 2 vegetable bouillon cubes; 1 serving enough hot water , to cover beans by 1 inch; 1 yellow bell pepper , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces

Gigantes (greek Giant Baked Beans) is a gluten free and dairy free recipe with 1 servings. This recipe covers 84% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 142g of protein, 260g of fat, and a total of 4390 calories. It works well as a main course. A mixture of vegetable bouillon cubes, ketchup, garlic cloves, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Gigantes Plaki (Greek Baked Beans), Baked Gigantes Beans, and Baked Gigantes in Tomato Sauce.

Instructions

Cook the pre-soaked beans in a pressure cooker, with enough water to cover by one inch, for 20 minutes and allow to sit, undisturbed, for 2-3 hours before proceeding with recipe.Tip the beans into a large baking pan.

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Add all of the remaining ingredients, except the dill, and stir well to distribute.

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Pour over enough hot water to cover beans by 1".

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Place pan in oven and set oven to 400F.

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Bake for 2 hours. Check, if you like your beans more tender, cook them a half hour longer.Stir dill in for last 15 minutes of baking.There will still be plenty of juices in the pan, but these will be absorbed by the beans and thicken as the beans cool.Like nearly all bean recipes, these only improve the next day, and the day after next.In Greece, these beans would constitute the main, 'vegetarian' meal and would not include the bacon, which is my own addition. We often eat meatless, especially when we're fasting. With or without the bacon or sausage, this is good eating, especially with a big chunk of sharp feta cheese on the side to nibble on between bites of beans and slurps of sauce and some good, honest, crusty bread to clean your plate up with. :-).

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Servings:

227grams

bacon , chopped (or 6 oz. bacon and 6 oz good quality pork sausage, cut up) (optional)454grams

diced tomatoes with juice (concasse)3larges

carrots , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces 2stalks

celery & leaves , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces 454grams

dried butter beans or dried lima beans (soaked overnight)2Tbsps

fresh dill , minced 4

garlic cloves , minced 2Tbsps

ketchup 177milliliters

olive oil 355milliliters

large onion , chopped (about 1teaspoons

pepper 1

red bell pepper , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces 2

vegetable bouillon cubes 1serving

enough hot water , to cover beans by 1 inch 1

yellow bell pepper , chopped into 1/2 inch pieces

Recommended wine: Agiorgitiko, Assyrtiko, Moschofilero

Agiorgitiko, Assyrtiko, and Moschofilero are my top picks for Greek. If you feel like going Greek with your Greek food, assyrtiko and moschofilero are both lovely white wines to pair with chicken, seafood, etc. Agiorgitiko is a full bodied red suitable for roasted meats and lamb. You could try Skouras Saint George Agiorgitiko. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.1 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 18 dollars per bottle.