Making Greek baked beans advice...

[blopez34]

I saw a recipe for Greek baked beans in tomato sauce and I want to make it.

It calls for dried gigantes beans, which I can't find. Can I use any dried bean? I was thinking dried, white lima beans. I also think I read in another thread that someone here uses butter beans? Can I use canned beans? That would make things so much easier...

 

[PemiKanavos]

Lima or ( Butter beans) work wonderfully, as do Great Northern Beans. Just be careful because each bean has a different cooking time. For example Great Northern Beans needs more cooking time (2+ hours) than Lima/ Butter beans (1+ hours). This is not including soaking time.
I have never used canned beans but my assumption is that cooking time would be less then the beans mentioned above.

 

[blopez34]

Lima or ( Butter beans) work wonderfully, as do Great Northern Beans. Just be careful because each bean has a different cooking time. For example Great Northern Beans needs more cooking time (2+ hours) than Lima/ Butter beans (1+ hours). This is not including soaking time.
I have never used canned beans but my assumption is that cooking time would be less then the beans mentioned above.

Thank you! I think I will give this a try. I didn't even realize they may have different cooking times.

 

[k_tsoukalas]

I use canned butter beans as a substitute and skip the part of the recipe describing to soak and boil the beans. I pick the recipe up from there. Butter beans are very similar.