Spring Black Bean Chili

SPRING BLACK BEAN CHILI

Black Bean Chili with Butternut Squash

Vegan – Gluten Free

Posted on May 15th, 2017

In the past I always made chili with Gardein’s meat substitute, which you can check if you like on my older recipe page. However, now I am cutting down on using processed vegan products so I created whole food plant based option with very small about of oil. The result was highly satisfying and I highly recommend you to try.

Eating whole foods is the key in fair combination of raw and cooked. Always aim on eating as much raw as possible and when you eating cooked make sure you are using only good quality oil and only very minimum. Good quality grape seed oil, possibly organic is one of the best for cooking,

Spring Black Bean Chili

Author: Lena Novak - Lena's Vegan Living

Recipe type: Chili

Serves: 8

INGREDIENTS

Black Beans 2cups soaked overnight, rinsed and cooked for 2 hours in 2 cups of water)

Butternut squash cut into small cubes

Tomatoes 5 medium size diced

Red bell pepper 1 diced

Yellow bell pepper 1 diced

Organic frozen corn 1cup

Onion 1 medium size minced

Garlic 4 cloves minced

Garlic powder 1 tsp

Cumin powder 2tbs

Chilli powder 1tbs

Dry chilli peppers to taste

Himalayan pink salt to taste

Oil 1tbs

Avocado for garnish

Cilantro 1 cup only the leaves

Medium size pot

Small pot

Medium size casserole dish

PROCESS

Preheat your oven to 400F.

In a casserole dish mix all the ingredients except tomatoes, beans & corn.

Cover with lid and roast in oven for 30min.

In the mean time, cook the tomatoes with pinch of salt and garlic powder in the small pot for 20 min until mushy.

When ready, remove the cover from the casserole and toss the mixture to distribute the juice from the bottom.

Place it back into the oven without the cover for ten more minutes.

Mix all in the pot with the cooked beans, tomatoes, corn and cilantro.

Serve garnished with avocado and cilantro.

I really hope you will try this deliciously tangy chili and you will add it to your recipe list. Please let me know what you think, I would love to hear your feedback.

Bon Appetit

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