Rick Stein cooked gigantes stew with big beans, spinach and tomatoes on Rick Stein: From Venice to Istanbul.

The ingredients are: 500g dried gigantes beans or butter beans, soaked overnight, 1 onion, chopped, 2 garlic cloves, chopped, 6 tbsp olive oil, ½ tsp sweet paprika, 1 tbsp tomato purée, 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes, 1 tsp salt, freshly ground black pepper, to taste, 350g chard or spinach, washed, small handful fresh parsley, chopped and small handful fresh mint, chopped.