sadly they are out
of the gigantes white beans at rancho gordo..
Not exact matches
I used capers instead
of olives (which were a great alternative) and white
gigante beans - it actually did look like a Christmas soup because
of all the red and green.
It features some
of my favorite ingredients including
gigante beans!
1 pound
of large, dried white beans (corona, giant limas,
gigantes, or any giant white beans you can find), rinsed, picked over and soaked overnight - or up to 24 hours.
Big beans (limas, Tarbais,
gigantes, coronas) are stars
of the legume family.
Gigantes plaki (Greek baked
gigantes) is a classic Greek recipe, consisting
of «giant» beans baked in a tomato sauce along with plenty
of fresh herbs, which give a really unique taste.
Drain and rinse 2 cans
of white beans, like
gigante or cannellini, and crush 1 large can
of whole peeled tomatoes by hand (which I like to do in a plastic bag, to avoid a crime - scene-esque kitchen).
These range from pé de ouro (golden feet)-- one
of the most heavily harvested species — to sempre - viva
gigante, the largest species, with a head the size
of a quarter, which is now so rare that it only occupies a two - square - kilometer plot
of land.