Giant beans with sausage in the oven
Posted on Aug 26, 2010 in Main Dishes | 15 comments
INGREDIENTS
- 1/2kgr giant beans
- 1/2 bunch celery (roughly chopped)
- 1/2 bunch parsley (roughly chopped)
- 2 large dry onions (chopped)
- 3-4 carrots (sliced)
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 2-3 tomatoes (grated)
- 10 thick slices sausage
- Salt and pepper
METHOD
- In a bowl add water, a medium tablespoon of salt, the giant beans and leave overnight to rise (12h).
- Wash well the giants and put them in a saucepan with enough water and let boil for 10′.
- Pour the water, add hot water to saucepan and boil again the giants until softened a bit.
- Add the celery, parsley, onion, carrots, olive oil and pepper and continue cooking.
- If necessary add water.
- Shortly before the end of cooking add the tomato and salt and let it cook until juice evaporates.
- In a pan, add the sausage pieces (scattered) and add between them the giants.
- Place the pan in moderate oven for a while to catch up crust on the top and the sausage be cooked (20′-30′).
TIP: Serve with feta cheese.
I am Livya from Greece, I'm 27 years old, I love cooking and I work as graphic-web designer.
i like this dish very much , but the beans are really giant:))
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That’s really interesting. It sounds flavourful and comforting
This looks great. i have never worked with giant beans – but might try this!
ceecee
Looks great though I have never used giant beans before – maybe I will try this!
This looks great. We enjoy a marinated version of the giant beans as an antipasto. Is there any particular variety of sausage you recommend?
~Loren
hello Loren!
I used the traditional sausage we have here in Greece. If you have plenty varieties there you can use a type of sausage that it can be grilled.
ha ha ha giant beans, I read earlier the story of Jack and the bean stalk to my daughter and here you are posting a giant bean recipe
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hahaha….. it’s really so funny!!!!
This dish sounds and looks so tasty. I wish i can have some now. Thank you for sharing this cool recipe and I will try to make it in the future.
Beans (especially GIANT beans) just cannot be beaten when they are together with sausage. Yum!! This looks great!
Love beans, love sausages, love them together. Fab dish!
Giant beans? Amazing! This is such an easy recipe for a weeknight dinner.
I have never seen giant beans, but I am sure they are super delicious!
Those beans are monsters!
I bet the dish was mighty tasty.
LL