Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, oven baked giant white beans (gigantes sto fourno). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Gigantes, or giant white beans, are slow-baked in a tomatoey sauce until they are creamy and caramelized. Wash the beans, place in water, and soak them overnight. Add beans, celery, parsley, salt & pepper, and hot water.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook oven baked giant white beans (gigantes sto fourno) using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Oven baked Giant White Beans (Gigantes sto fourno):
- Make ready 300 grams Giant White Beans (soaked in water overnight)
- Make ready 1 Leek diced
- Take 1 Carrot diced
- Get 1 Bell Peppers chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup Olive Oil
- Get 800 grams Chicken Broth
- Prepare 2 Bay Leaves
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Tomato Paste (optional)
- Get 4 fresh Tomatoes grated
- Take 2 tablespoons Sugar
- Prepare Salt
- Get Pepper
- Make ready Sweet Paprika (optional)
Although this is a staple dish in all Greek households and I cook it very often, I have. Like most 'ladera' dishes, baked Greek giant beans are best served at room temperature with feta cheese & bread. In the meantime, heat half a cup of the olive oil in a deep pan and sauté the onions. Serve with crusty bread and a glass of buttery white.
Steps to make Oven baked Giant White Beans (Gigantes sto fourno):
- Soak bean in water overnight. The following morning drain and add into a large pot of water. I boil the beans and drain the water they have been boiled in 2 times before cooking them.
- Add 1/2 of the Olive Oil into a pot and toss in the carrot, leek and sauté. Continue by adding the tomato paste and stir.
- Add the Chicken broth, if you don’t have any you can use the same amount of water.
- Add in grated tomatoes and cook for about 15 minutes before adding in the beans.
- Add in beans, sugar, salt, pepper, paprika, bay leaves and cook for 1/2 in pot. Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees and in a large baking pan add in the beans along with the Olive Oil that was left over. Bake in oven for 1 1/2 hrs. or until beans have soften, and sauce has thicken. - - Serve either as a main dish or a side dish…it really is up to you. 🙂 - - Kali Orexi!!! 🙂
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