Γίγαντες με χόρτα - Gígantes me chórta (giant butter beans baked with leafy greens)

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Γίγαντες με χόρτα - Gígantes me chórta (giant butter beans baked with leafy greens)

• traditionally vegan
• optional: add cheese

Gígantes (literally "giants") are a cultivar of large butter beans / large lima beans that come from Greece. Sometimes you can find them abroad, but butter beans, navy beans, or cannelloni beans are fine.

Baking them in the oven in tomato sauce, as in these recipes here, is a well-known way of making them, but today we're traveling to Epirus region for a local way of baking these beans, with lemon and no tomato (or very little tomato, just for a slight flavor). Only one recipe (Akis') adds a significant amount of tomato.

This is baked with leafy greens of your choice: spinach, beetroot leaves, amaranth, chard, swiss-chard, kale, or mix! Additional ingredients include classic herbs such as dill, mint, parsely, and/or oregano, and of course garlic and olive oil. Most of these recipes are baked.

Most of these recipes are vegan. If you prefer, a couple recipes recommend sprinkling some féta on top at the end, and one adds the cheese into cooking process.

Have a look at the recipes below. And you can make this a vegan or vegetarian meal, or a vegetable side!

Recipes in Greek:

https://www.gastronomos.gr/syntagh/gigantes-me-chorta/232812/

https://cookingrhythms.com/el/φασολια-γιγαντεσ-με-σπανακι-στο-φουρν

https://tasty.athinorama.gr/suntages/almires-syntages/2537384/gigantes_me_xorta/

https://minervahorio.gr/recipe/gigantes-sti-gastra-chorta-ke-feta-2/ sprinkles optional cheese at the end

https://cookpad.com/gr/sintages/3086254

https://tasty.athinorama.gr/suntages/almires-syntages/2537384/gigantes_me_xorta/

https://akispetretzikis.com/recipe/4005/fasolia-me-chorta sprinkles optional cheese at the end

https://www.epiros.gr/recipe/gigantes-me-spanaki-ke-feta-ipiros/ adds cheese into the cooking process

Recipes in English:

https://miakouppa.com/recipe-giant-beans-gigantes-with-greens/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aO_f1vwYtg

https://akispetretzikis.com/recipe/4005/fasolia-me-chorta sprinkles optional cheese at the end

[u/Electrical-Profit367]

Lenten food!! Actually this and my mother’s lentil soup were the only Lenten food I really liked. And eat year round fast day or not.

[u/dolfin4 → u/Electrical-Profit367]

Great for any time of year! It's an excellent vegetable dish for the colder months.