Of all the bean recipes I've tried in my life the Greek giant bean idea is by far the best. The Greeks started our civilization, and they still have some good stuff to prove it! 🥂🎉
This is one of my all time favorite recipes! (Along with one of my all time favorite cooks!) All Diane's food is fabulous. No nonsense and truly delicious. I'm so grateful for her taking time to share her wisdom. 😊
I know you posted years ago, but this is indeed a wonderful dish! I have made a few times now. It's easy, though I had to make several subsitutions: balsamic vinegar, local honey, and cannelini beans (even online I can't get good butter beans). I've made with those beans in the pouch or canned and that works nicely too. This is good for breakfast on toast, or any other meal.
I had Lima beans and they took FOREVER to get soft, even after soaking overnight And baking for 3 hours. I ended up putting them into a slow cooker overnight plus three hours the next morning ... finally soft and I improvised on the spices and honey amounts. Tastes delicious! Next time I will do it differently.
Wonderful recipe! Your presentation is so graceful and floods my longing for Greece. If you are suffering from gas, you should boil the beans at least once before cooking in the pressure cooker and pour out the water It is nice to cook the beans with bay leaves and some all spice berries. After cooking throw them away. .For vegans - replace the honey with silan (date honey)
Another authentic, delicious-looking recipe! I like Diane's version, but I'll throw my variation in the ring as well: once cooked, add some orange juice and orange zest, spread out fairly thin (two-bean height :-) on a broiler pan,top with a few cut-up slices of bacon, and broil until the bacon has browned ... maybe leave out the dill. One of my very favorite Greek dishes!
What a wonderfully satisfying looking dish. I love dishes where you can just throw the ingredients together and get on with your life! 😉 I'm going to try it, but will probably "cheat" and use canned butter beans, halve the amounts and I'm hoping that balsamic vinegar will work instead of the vinegar used in the recipe, which I'm pretty sure isn't available in the U.K.
This was utterly delicious - as good as some of the γίγαντες I've had in Greece - even without the honey. In the end I had to cook mine for two hours, so I'll use slightly less liquid next time, or slightly higher heat. And maybe skip the tomato paste. But what a great, straightforward and watchable video recipe ! I found it in Greek, too (so I knew how much a 'sigma cup' of oil was… !) It would be cool if you included links to toggle between the English and Greek versions of all your recipes. Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ.
This looks wonderful! I just ordered another 5 lbs. of giagandes beans and will make this for Christmas dinner along with my more traditional prime rib. Should go well. I love Mediterranean cuisine but am not versed well in it. Now, I 'm going to start learning how to cook it, thanks to you! Very nice tutorial!
I have seen many videos of this recipe, but this is the first one using a pressure cooker. It certainly does save time to precook the beans this way, but it also takes a lot of experience to know how long to cook the beans this way, starting from dry, and without salt or baking soda. The very good tip shown here is to not try and cook them all the way through in the pressure cooker, but to add more water into the pan with the other ingredients, where they finish cooking more slowly, and you can check on them periodically. This recipe saves the overnight soaking so it can be prepared and served on the same day.
@Wysiwygnuttyjo51 Hi the pressure cooker is a tefal jamie oliver clipso pressure cooker, available from lakeland. it is quite pricy though at £139.99. Hope this helps.
uhh 🙄 that top or dress is great and all in fact I would totally wear it but it’s a little risqué low cut for a cooking demo, it’s something I would wear to a wine tasting not to boil bread in!
love these recipes. Since last trip to Greece we eat greek vegetable meals several times a week.
Of all the bean recipes I've tried in my life the Greek giant bean idea is by far the best. The Greeks started our civilization, and they still have some good stuff to prove it! 🥂🎉
This is one of my all time favorite recipes! (Along with one of my all time favorite cooks!) All Diane's food is fabulous. No nonsense and truly delicious. I'm so grateful for her taking time to share her wisdom. 😊
This woman is a godsend.
Love Greek food.
I know you posted years ago, but this is indeed a wonderful dish! I have made a few times now. It's easy, though I had to make several subsitutions: balsamic vinegar, local honey, and cannelini beans (even online I can't get good butter beans). I've made with those beans in the pouch or canned and that works nicely too. This is good for breakfast on toast, or any other meal.
I had Lima beans and they took FOREVER to get soft, even after soaking overnight And baking for 3 hours. I ended up putting them into a slow cooker overnight plus three hours the next morning ... finally soft and I improvised on the spices and honey amounts. Tastes delicious! Next time I will do it differently.
Omg I love these. I've never been able to get them to taste the same as in Greece. Yummy!
Wonderful recipe!
Your presentation is so graceful and floods my longing for Greece.
If you are suffering from gas, you should boil the beans at least once before cooking in the pressure cooker and pour out the water
It is nice to cook the beans with bay leaves and some all spice berries.
After cooking throw them away.
.For vegans - replace the honey with silan (date honey)
Really lovely, can I come over for dinner
Looks really yummy
Another authentic, delicious-looking recipe!
I like Diane's version, but I'll throw my variation in the ring as well: once cooked, add some orange juice and orange zest, spread out fairly thin (two-bean height :-) on a broiler pan,top with a few cut-up slices of bacon, and broil until the bacon has browned ... maybe leave out the dill.
One of my very favorite Greek dishes!
That looks so delicious!! thank you, Diane, for sharing.
Excellent recipe!
What a wonderfully satisfying looking dish. I love dishes where you can just throw the ingredients together and get on with your life! 😉
I'm going to try it, but will probably "cheat" and use canned butter beans, halve the amounts and I'm hoping that balsamic vinegar will work instead of the vinegar used in the recipe, which I'm pretty sure isn't available in the U.K.
This was utterly delicious - as good as some of the γίγαντες I've had in Greece - even without the honey.
In the end I had to cook mine for two hours, so I'll use slightly less liquid next time, or slightly higher heat. And maybe skip the tomato paste.
But what a great, straightforward and watchable video recipe ! I found it in Greek, too (so I knew how much a 'sigma cup' of oil was… !) It would be cool if you included links to toggle between the English and Greek versions of all your recipes. Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ.
I love your style, you are very elegant and your recipies are delicious !
Indeed, not the tiniest splash of tomato paste on that pristine white dress. A true greek goddess!
Looks divine!!
Yiasou, beautiful recipe. I just came across your channel and love it. Go Peloponisos!!!
This looks wonderful! I just ordered another 5 lbs. of giagandes beans and will make this for Christmas dinner along with my more traditional prime rib. Should go well. I love Mediterranean cuisine but am not versed well in it. Now, I 'm going to start learning how to cook it, thanks to you! Very nice tutorial!
I have seen many videos of this recipe, but this is the first one using a pressure cooker. It certainly does save time to precook the beans this way, but it also takes a lot of experience to know how long to cook the beans this way, starting from dry, and without salt or baking soda. The very good tip shown here is to not try and cook them all the way through in the pressure cooker, but to add more water into the pan with the other ingredients, where they finish cooking more slowly, and you can check on them periodically. This recipe saves the overnight soaking so it can be prepared and served on the same day.
lovely beans darlin😉
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What make/brand is your pressure cooker? I have been trying to find one with a push button release, here in the UK...with no luck! Thanks :)
@Wysiwygnuttyjo51 Hi the pressure cooker is a tefal jamie oliver clipso pressure cooker, available from lakeland. it is quite pricy though at £139.99. Hope this helps.
I bought a bag of frozen gigantes but can't find any recipes such as this one which uses them. Any tips?
είναι υπέροχο η μόνη ένσταση είναι ότι το μέλι δεν πρέπει να έκτη θεια σε υψηλή θερμοκρσια
Why is the label of the olive oil blurred out?
uhh 🙄 that top or dress is great and all in fact I would totally wear it but it’s a little risqué low cut for a cooking demo, it’s something I would wear to a wine tasting not to boil bread in!
Fiona O'Keefe I know. Great cook and channel but I wish these ladies would stop with the need to show the cleavage on a cooking show!
I thought it's perfectly fine to wear, sounds a bit like a you problem tbh
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