Healthy, full of fiber and filling, gigantes plaki (γίγαντες πλακί), is a common mezze all over Greece.
Tag: Beans
Gigantes Plaki sto Fourno
Gallo Pinto
(Costa Rican, Nicaraguan red beans and rice)
If there is one meal that everyone in Nicaragua and Costa Rica eats, it's gallo pinto. This hearty, healthy and filling dish is your basic rice and beans.
Cowboy Beans
(American Tex-Mex beans with ground beef)
Full of spicy Tex-Mex flavor, this border-state variation of baked beans bulks up with a hefty helping of browned ground beef and adds a nice dose of barbecue sauce.
Chakalaka
(South African spicy tomato, pepper and onion dish)
Born in the townships of South Africa, chakalaka is a simple, spicy dish of onions, tomatoes and often beans.
Cerdo con Frijoles
(Mexican stewed pork and black beans)
Wild boar, or cerdo, was traditionally used in this typically Mayan dish from southern Mexico. Epazote is an herb that is almost always used to flavor black beans in the Yucatán.
Boston Baked Beans
(American white beans baked with molasses)
Flavored with molasses, and slow baked in the oven, Boston baked beans are a Yankee favorite and are traditionally served with Boston brown bread.
Baleadas
(Honduran flour tortillas with beans and cheese)
A quick and satisfying Honduran breakfast, lunch or evening meal, baleadas are thick flour tortillas folded over a variety of fillings.
Frijoles de la Olla
(Mexican beans in broth)
Frijoles de la olla, or beans in a pot, are good in Mexican burritos and tacos, on tostadas or on their own as a side dish. Traditionally made in a ceramic bean pot, or olla.
Feijoada
(Brazilian pork, beef and black bean stew)
Feijoada, or feijoada completa, is Brazil's national dish, a lusty meat and bean stew slow simmered and traditionally served as a Saturday afternoon meal.
Fagioli all’Uccelletto
(Italian white beans with tomato and sage)
This comforting bean dish originates in the Tuscan town of Siena. Fagioli all’uccelletto goes well with a variety of boiled or braised meats.