Cold Bean Salad: Piyaz

Tasty summer dish as a main but also accompanying tsipouro meze. Garnished with chopped onion, parsley, oil and lemon and sprinkled with freshly ground pepper, sumac & chili peppers for color and flavor and all together for health and vitamins! Whether you say it bean salad or Turkish piyaz, is one of the most classic dishes with beans after the bean soup.
All beans contain high amounts of protein and fiber. An amazing combination for the protection of the digestive system and moving the food through the intestines. Fiber helps to better digest food and help ensure that the waste products to be eliminated. It is known for their irreplaceable effects in the digestive tract, while protein helps the body to maintain optimal health and build healthy muscle mass.
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work: 15′

time: 45′

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Slow Cooker Gigantes Beans

Slow cooking is an ideal method of cooking and this is possible by a Slow Cooking machine. Beyond any positive elements, such as energy savings, convenience for a delicious meal, etc., we have more personal time free to utilize in wherever else we want.
Put all the ingredients of the food in the pot and forget it for 6-8 hours depending on the temperature you choose. It is a convenient solution to put the food to be cooked all night (or all morning) and the next day we ready for serving hot food.
Cook my Slow Cooker Giant Beans, whom I had not previously soaked! I admit that the result was a pleasant and delicious surprise.
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work: 10′

time: 7h:00′

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Smoked Pork Shank with Giant Beans

Giant beans along with syglino (corned pork) from Cretan Sfakia, sprinkled and smoked with aromatic herbs of the mountains of Crete (throuby or summer savory, thyme, sage). A delicious and hearty dish, where the coexistence of beans with smoked pork give a proteinaceous, delicious meal with excellent combined components.
The syglino in Crete was made from many years ago and was kept in clay pots with glyna (pork fat). Whole pieces of delicious pork meat is smoked and fried. It was the meat preservation a way to have it during the whole year. Similarly prepared and is found in Mani, in the Cyclades and elsewhere.
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work: 30′

time: 12h:00′

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Chilli con Carne

Chili con Carne (Hot Peppers with meat) are among the most famous, typical dishes of Tex-Mex (Texan and Mexican) cuisine. There are infinite variations on the basic recipe of this dish, which has its roots in Mexican cuisine and was the dish of the poor Mexican population. For sure it contains meat, hot peppers and spices. The rest -red beans, tomatoes etc.-, probably added in the course of transition in every continent.
It is intensely spicy to very spicy and what you need for this season of the year and for lovers of very spicy flavors. In our house we have one of those lovers and this dish is his favorite. So the more spicy the better. You moderate a little bit the hot doses of ingredients and enjoy it completely plain or on boiled rice, yogurt, mashed or baked potatoes, sprinkled with grated cheddar cheese and tortilla chips or wrapped in tortillas with a little corn and lettuce leaves. Consumed with zest as it is!
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work: 45′

time: 12h:00′

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Black Giant Beans with Stewed Onions

Delicious giant beans with a stew of caramelized onions, carrot slices and sundried tomatoes in oil. All mixed with spices and herbs to increase the taste. Balanced, to have a finish of a perfect stew without meat.
Black giant beans, black to brown, but there are black to dark purple - blue. A particular variety of beans, delicious, full in protein, antioxidants, plant fiber, low fat and they care for the proper functioning of our heart. A super food!
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work: 45′

time: 12h:45′

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Giant Beans with Celery

A delightful delicacy. Delicious, hearty, economical and favorite for too many. Along with feta cheese and olives, warm loaf of bread and a glass of wine is a unique, tasty treat.
The combination of celery with giant beans is tasty and has proper nutritional value. Traditional cooking in a casserole dish in the oven enhances their flavor. For those of you who haven't seen this particular triedish, it's time to reconsider.
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work: 1h:30′

time: 13h:30′

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Baked Lima Beans with Tomatoes

Lima beans are among the oldest varieties of beans available, a native of the Andes. In our kitchen, however, they have an important role but also tasty! A very tasty legume every way you may cook it.
Lima beans are baked in the oven with much onion, peppers, tomatoes and more, they are a healthy and filling combination.
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work: 20′

time: 13h:00′

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Greek Giant Baked Beans

Baked giant beans.
Considered one of the tastiest dishes of traditional Greek cuisine, a dish that Greeks and visitors foreigners love. Simple yet so delicious and useful for our diet.
Ingredients such as the Greek giant beans, tomato, onion, and olive oil, well tempered, for a delicious result!

work: 00h:20′

time: 12h:20′

easy: 2/5

Beef Braised with Beans

Beef braised with beans cooked in red sauce.
Heirloom beans look like small, colorful beads. They have a light pink to red or purple color with red spots on them. It's a delicious variety of beans, which we find in the market in the summer.

work: 00h:45′

time: 01h:30′

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Green Beans Salad

Fresh, green beans, thin french green beans for a simple, delicious and healthy salad.
On hot summer days, they gives us the opportunity to have a refreshing light and tasty dish.
Green bean salad is as delicious as green bean stew with the advantage of shorter preparation time and fewer calories.
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work: 15′

time: 45′

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Greek Bean Soup

Delicious beans with onion, celery, carrots and olive oil. All tied together, compose and take off with a delicious result, a dried bean soup!
The ingredients are simple and we can find them easily. May be the olive oil is in some places hard to find, but the rest are common everywhere, I hope.

εργασία: 30′

χρόνος: 2h:00′

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Black-Eyed Beans's Salad

Salad with black-eyed beans and herbs. The addition of smoked salmon makes it even more delicious and gives it its characteristic flavor. Try a salad, that can easily replace the main dish on the table and is second to none in flavor, vitamins and fiber! It can accompany almost any dish you like. I prefer it plain, enjoying all the flavor it gives.

work: 0:30'

time: 1h:00'

easy: 2/10

Greek Giant Baked Beans

Baked Beans. Considered one of the tastiest dishes of Traditional Greek Cuisine. Simple yet so delicious and useful to our diet. It is lacking sodium but is a source of vegetable protein and soluble fiber, which help control cholesterol levels in the body. It also contains B vitamins, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. All this makes them one of the most important foods in our diet.

work: 0:30'+1h:30'

time: 1d:2h:00'

easy: 4/10