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Gigantes Yahni — Greek Giant Beans in Tomato, Ready in 2 Minutes (300g)

Name: Gigantes Yahni — Greek Giant Beans in Tomato, Ready in 2 Minutes (300g)
Brand: 3 Alfa
SKU: 3ALFGIG300
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Product Description

The bean dish that used to take an afternoon, ready in two minutes

Gigantes yahni is one of the oldest plates in the Greek repertoire: large white beans simmered with tomato, onion, olive oil, and parsley until the sauce thickens around them. It is what comes out of the oven at Sunday lunch, and what sits on the table again, cold, on Monday. 3 Alfa cooks it in Athens with gigantes beans grown by the Group of Greek Producers, its own network of contracted Greek growers, and finishes it with extra virgin olive oil at 6%. The dish is steam-cooked and sealed in a protective atmosphere, which is why the pouch carries no preservatives and still keeps for months in a cupboard.

The beans stay whole, with the thin skin and the floury centre that gigantes are grown for, and they do not collapse into paste. The tomato is round rather than sharp, the onion has gone soft into the sauce, and there is enough parsley to keep it fresh. Warmed through, it tastes like something that has been on a low heat all afternoon, because that is essentially what happened before it was sealed. Eaten cold, straight from the fridge, it becomes a meze, which is exactly how Greeks treat what is left over.

There is a reason this dish carried Greek households through the meatless days of the calendar for generations, and the label still shows it. A single pouch delivers around 21g of fibre and around 16g of plant protein, all of it from the beans. The fat comes from olive oil, not from a refined seed oil. It is the meal you keep in the cupboard for the evening when cooking is not going to happen, and it does not ask you to compromise on what you eat.

How to use it

Ready in 2 minutes: open the pouch by about 3cm and heat it at 900W for two minutes, or empty it into a small pan with a tablespoon of water and warm it gently.
As a full plate, with bread to wipe the sauce and a wedge of feta on the side.
As a warm meze, spooned into a small bowl alongside olives and a slice of bread.
Cold from the fridge, the way Greeks eat the leftovers, with a squeeze of lemon and a turn of black pepper.
As a base to build on: fold in wilted greens, a spoon of chopped dill, or a handful of rocket.

Nutritional Components

A bean dish with the numbers to justify the routine.

Beans make up 72.7% of this pouch, and the fat in it comes from extra virgin olive oil rather than a refined seed oil. That combination is what produces the figures below, and it is the reason gigantes carried Greek households through the meatless days of the calendar for generations.

What the pouch actually gives you:

High in fibre: 7.1g per 100g, which puts the full 300g pouch at around 21g.
Plant protein: 5.4g per 100g, around 16g in the full pouch, all of it from the beans themselves.
Extra virgin olive oil at 6%: the fat in this dish is olive oil, not a refined vegetable oil, and the saturated fraction stays at 1g per 100g.
No preservatives: the dish is steam-cooked and sealed in a protective atmosphere. That is what makes an 18-month shelf life possible without preservatives.
Certified vegan: V-Label certified, with no animal ingredients at any stage.

Average values per 100g:

Energy: 580 kJ / 139 kcal
Fat: 6.6 g, of which saturates: 1 g
Carbohydrate: 11 g, of which sugars: 3 g
Fibre: 7.1 g
Protein: 5.4 g
Salt: 0.88 g

Ingredients: Gigantes beans 72.7%, tomato, tomato puree, extra virgin olive oil 6%, onion, salt, sugar, parsley, yeast extract, black pepper. May contain celery and cereals containing gluten.

The beans are grown by the Group of Greek Producers, 3 Alfa's own network of contracted Greek growers, and the dish is cooked and sealed in Greece.

Useful Information

Storage guide: a slow-cooked meal that lives in the cupboard.

This is a cooked dish that needs no refrigeration until you open it. The pouch is sealed in a protective atmosphere straight after steam cooking, which is what keeps the beans stable for 18 months without a single preservative. Treat it as a pantry item, not as a chilled ready meal.

How to store it correctly:

Before opening: a dry cupboard, away from direct light. No refrigeration is needed at any point before opening.
Heating in the pouch: open the pouch by about 3cm first, then heat at 900W for two minutes. Never microwave it sealed.
Heating in a pan: empty the contents into a small pan, add one tablespoon of water and warm for two minutes over a low heat.
After opening: this is a single portion and is meant to be finished. If anything is left, transfer it to a covered container and keep it in the fridge.

Freshness timeline:

Unopened: 18 months from production. The date is printed on the pouch.
Heated: serve straight away. Reheating a second time is not recommended.
Opened and refrigerated: cover it and eat it cold, or warm it gently, the way the leftovers are eaten in Greece.

Product details:

Format: sealed pouch, one portion, cooked and ready to warm
Net weight: 300g
Origin: Athens, Greece. Beans grown by the Group of Greek Producers.
Producer: 3 Alfa
Certifications: V-Label certified vegan
Allergens: no allergenic ingredients. May contain celery and cereals containing gluten.
Shelf life: 18 months

Why a pouch and not a jar

A jar of gigantes is a family format: you open it, you serve four people, and what is left goes into the fridge. This pouch answers a different question. It is one portion, cooked to the point where a home cook would stop, and sealed without preservatives because the protective atmosphere does the work that chemistry would otherwise do. It is not a smaller jar. It is the version of the dish that survives a working week.

Cooked slowly, kept slow, and simply made available on a Tuesday.