Legumes · Dried
Giant white beans
Also called gigantes, gigandes, elephant beans, judión
Very large dried white beans (Greek gigantes, Spanish judión); creamy and meaty, baked in tomato sauce with dill or braised in Spanish stews.
- A kind of Butter beans
What can replace it
- T2 · GoodCanned butter beans
Canned and smaller; less meaty, add late so they don't break up. (use 2.5× the amount)
- T2 · GoodCannellini beans
Much smaller and less meaty; shorter cooking.
- T3 · In a pinchBorlotti beans
Smaller and nuttier, and colours the sauce brownish.
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