Vegetarian Chilli-ish
This isn't hot, just spicy and flavoursome
Makes 4 reasonable servings:
Ingredients
1 large onion
2 sweet red peppers
3 large medium hot chillies
10 small finger chillis (not sure what they actually are, Sainburys called them finger chillis and rated them as hot - personally I'd rate them as medium)
1 small can red kidney beans
1 can of chopped tomatoes (or one can of tomatoes and chop them
)
1/2 bottle passata or similar
Some kind of mince substitute - I used a 350g pack of Quorn mince, but a mix of lentils would be nice, or mixed beans etc)
Handful fresh sweet basil leaves
Handful fresh coriander leaves
1 tsp or so of salt (smoked sea salt works well)
About 1 tbsp olive oil
Heat olive oil in large pan until shimmery.
Finely chop onion
Add onion to pan, stir and turn heat to lowest
Put lid on pan
Leave to slowly steam/fry for 7 minutes or so
Chop sweet peppers (de-seed if preferred) and add to onions
Stir
Put lid back on
Leave for another 7 minutes or so - onions should be soft, and golden-clear, peppers should be soft
Chop medium chillies - deseed if required - and add to pan - put lid back on
Chop hot chillies (if you use the small ones you may not be able to deseed them even if you want to
) - add to pan and cover
Leave for about 7 minutes
chop basil and coriander
Grind salt
Add basil, salt and coriander to pan. Stir. Re-cover
Add quorn mince/lentils/beans
Stir & re-cover
Add tomatoes, passata and water if needed to achieve desired consistency
Drain kidney beans and add to mix
Stir, turn heat up so it's bubbling nicely and cook for a further 12 minutes or so.