Vegetarian Chili and Rice Recipe Released by Healthy Foods and Eating Healthy Blog
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Vegetarian Chili and Rice
by jasmin*
Here’s a delicious healthy eating recipe for a dinner packed
with vegetables and serves 4.
Each serving of the vegetarian recipe contains approx 350 calories, 20g of sugar, 50g of Carbs and 14g of fat, (2g of which is saturated).
2 peppers (yellow and green) deseeded, and chunked
1 red onion chopped
3 celery sticks sliced diagonally
1 aubergine, topped and tailed and cut into 1cm pieces
1 tin chopped tomatoes with chilli and peppers (approx 350-400g)
200g frozen sweet corn
2 tins of chilli beans (1 tin = 300g approx)
2 tablespoons crushed chillies
3 tablespoons of olive oil
Boiled rice to serve
Heat the oil in a pan and add the onion and cook for a few minutes until the onion starts to turn clear. Add the aubergine and the celery and stir to coat all the ingredients with oil. Cook for about 5 minutes over a low heat, stirring frequently.
Add everything else but the chilli beans, and heat until everything is boiling nicely, then cover and simmer for about 5 minutes, before adding the tins of chilli beans,
Simmer for another 5 minutes and serve with the boiled rice.
Delicious.
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March 5th, 2008 at 4:33 am
I tried this very same recipe with brown rice instead of white rice. It tastes great and you ofcourse get all the health benefits of unpolished rice. Brown rice has a high fibre content and is believed to control blood sugar and cholestrol in the body. Eating brown rice also reduces the chances of you getting constipated. Many people are worried about cooked brown rice being hard and stiff, there is an easy way to get over this probelm. When you cook brown rice, soak the rice in water (before cooking) for around 20 to 25 minutes. Turn the rice cooker on after the rice has soaked for that time. If you find it hard to eat brown rice for the first time, mix 1 proportion of white rice and 1 proportion of brown rice when cooking. You probably need not pre-soak the white rice before cooking.