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!
Sounds wonderful! Our weather is doing similar things. Yesterday it was 30′, this morning it was 10′! How crazy.
We’ve been eating similar things!
Looks good!
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?
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
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.
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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!
Oh yum! That looks colourful and delicious – look at all that flavour!