Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans)
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Gigantes plaki (giant baked beans)
There are no words to describe them.... simply perfect!
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Soak the beans overnight in plenty of water.
* Step 2
The next day, strain and boil in a pressure cooker with plenty of water.
* Step 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.
* Step 4
Remove the beans from the pressure cooker and strain. Let them stand in a bowl.
* Step 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.
* Step 6
Close the pressure cooker and boil the vegetables for about 15 minutes (after the valve starts releasing steam).
* Step 7
Put some olive oil in a frying pan and sauté the sausages.
* Step 8
Heat the oven at 180 degrees.
* Step 9
Put the giant beans in a deep oven tray, the vegetables and the sausages with their oil on top.
* Step 10
Stir all the ingredients well.
* Step 11
Place the tray in the oven and bake for about 1 hour till all the sauce is absorbed.
* Step 12
Stir the food a couple of times while baking. Serve with crumbled feta on top and hot fresh bread!
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