Serves 1
Stuffed Peppers with Chilli
This hearty chilli filling is a great recipe to have up your sleeve for those nights when you need a warming, healthy meal full of plant-based goodness. And it also happens to be vegan.
It works well as a stand-alone dish too – just load up a bowl and add a handful of seasonal greens for added nutrients, or pour it over some brown rice for a filling supper after a long, blustery day out. The chilli is a perfect recipe for batch cooking too, as it freezes beautifully.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 large red or yellow pepper
- 1 teaspoon light olive oil
For the chilli:
- 1 tsp coconut oil or light olive oil
- ½ a small red onion, peeled and sliced
- 1 clove of garlic, peeled and sliced
- 1 small stick of celery, diced
- ½ red chilli, diced
- 100g sweet potatoes, peeled and diced into 1-2cm pieces
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp paprika
- A small bunch of fresh coriander, stems finely chopped, leaves reserved
- 125ml water
- ½ a 400g tin of black beans or kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 tsp tomato purée
- 1 tsp tamari or coconut aminos (or soy sauce if you’re OK with gluten)
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
To serve:
- 1 handful of salad leaves of your choice.
STEP-BY-STEP
Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6.
Heat the coconut or olive oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion, garlic, celery, chilli and sweet potatoes for 5 minutes, then stir in the ground cumin and ground coriander, paprika and coriander stalks until everything is well coated.
Add the water and cover with a tightly fitting lid. Turn the heat down to its lowest setting and cook for 25 – 30 minutes, stirring occasionally to stop it sticking.
Meanwhile, cut the pepper in half straight through the stalk and carefully take out the seeds and pithy white bits from inside. Pour ½ teaspoon of olive oil inside each half pepper and use your hands rub this all over both sides. Place on a baking tray, skin side down, and put into the oven for 12 – 15 minutes, to soften. Remove from the oven when the peppers are soft and slightly caramelized around the edges, and set to one side.
After the filling has had 25 – 30 minutes simmering, add the beans, tomato purée and tamari / animos / soy. You may need to add another splash of water if it looks dry, although you are aiming for quite a thick texture. Bring back to a simmer for another 5 – 6 minutes, to warm the beans through. Stir in half the coriander leaves, then taste and adjust the seasoning as necessary.
Spoon the mixture into your prepared pepper halves, sprinkle with the remaining coriander leaves and serve over a bed of salad leaves of your choice.
This recipe is from Nourish and Glow: The 10 Day Plan, Michael Joseph, 2017
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