Chilli

Easy to bulk make and freeze, healthy, cheap and meat-free. Great to have with pasta, rice, nachos or even chips.

Info

• Serves 8

• £0.75 per serving

• 220 calories per serving

Ingredients

vegetable oil
3 onions
3 peppers
4-5 carrots
Pack of fresh chillies (about 3-4)
Several cloves of garlic
1 tsp smoked paprika
4 tsp ground cumin
6 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp chilli powder (add more if you like it hot)
4 cans of chopped tomatoes (or whole but you'll have to cut them up)
2 boxes of passata (about a litre)
2 tbsp tomato puree
2 vegetable stock cube
2 tins of kidney beans (800g)
handful of frozen peas

Method

• Cut the carrots

• Put the oil in the pan and heat it up to a mid heat, when hot throw the carrots in and put a lid on

• While these are cooking cut up the onions, peppers and chillies

• After about 5 minutes the onions can go in

• Another 5 minutes and the peppers and chillies can go in

• Once everything is softened put the garlic and spices in

• Follow up the spices with the passata, canned tomatoes, puree, peas and kidney beans

• Leave it to cook for 20 minutes stirring regularly

• If you're cooking pasta, rice or alike now's a good time to put that on.

• When all is ready serve and enjoy, freeze the leftovers for a quick healthy meal