It’s Friday at last!!! What a long week it’s been, I think the sudden change from high summer and 30°C to Autumn and 15°C has made it seem even longer. My body has spun straight into hibernation mode and all I want to do is eat comfort food and sleep.
Still determined to eat less meat in order to feel better and to help me loose weight I decided to make a nice pot of chilli for dinner tonight and instead of meat I thought I would make it a vegetarian chilli. No meat doesn’t necessarily mean no flavour.
TWO BEAN VEGETARIAN CHILLI
Serves 2-3
INGREDIENTS
- 1 Tin Kidney beans (250 after being drained)
- 1 Tin Black beans (23g after being drained)
- 1 Tin Plum tomatoes (425ml), chopped
- 1 1/2 Medium onions, chopped
- 1 Red Pepper, chopped
- 1 Yellow Pepper, chopped
- 4 Cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 Medium green chilli, finely chopped
- 150g White mushrooms, sliced
- 1 Tbsp Tomato puree, heaped
- 2 Tsp Ground Cumin
- 1/2 Tsp Chilli powder
- 1/2 Tsp Smoked paprika, sweet
- 1 Tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 Tsp Onion powder
- 250ml Vegetable stock
- 1 Tbsp oil
- (Optional for a non-vegetarian chilli omit the smoked paprika and add 30g finely diced spicy chorzio sausage.)
PREPARATION
- Fry the onion, peppers, green chilli and garlic in the oil until softened.
- Add the spices (and chorizo when desired) and continue to cook for a further couple of minutes.
- Add the stock, mushrooms, black beans, kidney beans and chopped tomatoes.
- Simmer for 15 minutes or until the sauce has reached the desired consistency, taste and adjust the seasoning.
- Serve immediately! Perfect with some grated cheese sprinkled over!
Sara | 11-Aug-06 at 8:30 pm | Permalink
Sounds wonderful! Our weather is doing similar things. Yesterday it was 30′, this morning it was 10′! How crazy.
Nicole | 11-Aug-06 at 10:12 pm | Permalink
We’ve been eating similar things!
Looks good!
Meeta | 11-Aug-06 at 10:43 pm | Permalink
Looks great Pam! Isn’t the weather weird. Some of our trees are already turning yellow and in the supermarkets they’ve starting selling Halloween stuff. I hope that we get a few warm days before winter sets in.
Hope you’re doing well?
KJ | 11-Aug-06 at 11:06 pm | Permalink
What kind of oil do you use in that? Is it olive oil? That looks good. I’ve never had a vegetarian chilli before. I’m going to use some of your recipes to impress my wife
shilpa | 12-Aug-06 at 12:46 am | Permalink
Veggie chilli looks great. I love beans and any dish with them. In North Indian Cuisine, there is a famous dish called as ‘Rajma’ (named after kidney beans. kidney beans is the main ingredient and it is called as rajma in Hindi).It is served with rice or Indian bread. I love this dish. Your dish looks like more healthy version of this with two kinds of beans in it. I will give it a try soon. Thanks for sharing.
Food Bloggin | 12-Aug-06 at 1:02 am | Permalink
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Pamela | 12-Aug-06 at 2:22 pm | Permalink
Sara - 20° drop in one day is pretty severe!
Nicole - great minds think alike!
Meeta - Halloween stuff already, that pretty early!! I’m doing fine here just been busy sorry I haven’t been in touch for a while.
KJ - Yes, I did use olive oil but that’s because I love the flavour but you could use vegetable oil. I really hope your wife likes my chilli
Thanks for the post on your site, I’m honoured!
Shilpa - Glad you like my chilli. I ‘ve been reading through your site, so many inspirational recipes!
Ellie | 12-Aug-06 at 5:31 pm | Permalink
Oh yum! That looks colourful and delicious - look at all that flavour!