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Stuffed Peppers with Chilli

by Amelia Freer from Nourish & Glow: The 10-Day Plan

Easy

Serves 1

Enjoy Amelia Freer’s hearty vegetarian chilli in a sweet, caramelised pepper. This recipe from Nourish & Glow is perfect for a light, healthy dinner.

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Introduction

This hearty and warming vegan chilli filling is a great recipe to have up your sleeve for those nights when you need a warming, healthy meal. It works well as a stand-alone dish too – just load up a bowl and add a handful of seasonal greens, or pour it over some brown rice for a filling supper after a long, blustery day out.

This bean and sweet potato chilli is a very easy recipe to make a big batch of and freeze in portions, so you could always double up the quantities and put some away for another day (which will also prevent you from being left with half a tin of beans looking sad in the fridge!).

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Ingredients

1large red or yellow pepper
1 tsplight olive oil
For the chilli:
1 tspcoconut oil or light olive oil
1/2a small red onion, peeled and sliced
1clove of garlic, peeled and sliced
1small stick of celery, diced
1/2red chilli, diced
100gsweet potatoes, peeled and diced into 1-2cm pieces
1 tspground cumin
1 tspground coriander
1/2 tsppaprika
a small bunchof fresh coriander, stems finely chopped, leaves reserved
125mlwater
1/2 a 400g tinof black beans or kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 tbsptomato purée
1 tsptamari or coconut aminos
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
To serve:
1 handfulof salad leaves of your choice

Method

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. 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.

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