This vegan bean stew is really comforting, unpretentious and delicious. No spice at all, yet simply tasteful from the essence of vegetables. Serve it with some crusty bread as a filling lunch or light supper.
A Vegan Bean Stew Recipe from Joe Woodhouse
This is the first recipe I tried out from Joe Woodhouse’s cookbook, ‘More Daily Veg’. I like it as the required ingredients are handy and the cooking steps are simple enough.
Healthy, Humble and Easy to Eat
As the stew base’s flavour mainly comes from 2 things – slow-cooked onions and celery, and the vegetable broth. So make sure you sauté the onions and celery until fragrant, and the vegetable you use is a good one. Since there is no spice in the broth, and not much oil is used, the whole dish is quite healthy, humble and easy to eat.
Ingredients
Serves 2
- 1 small sweet potato (approx. 200 g)
- a bowl of butternut squash
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 celery stick, sliced
- 1 garlic clove, sliced
- 1 bay leaf
- 500 ml boiling water
- ½ tsp salted vegetable bouillon powder
- 1 tin cannellini bean (400 g)
- 80 g kale, chopped
- ¼ tsp salt (to taste)
- freshly grind black pepper
- extra-virgin olive oil
How to Make Vegan Bean Stew with Kale and Roast Squash
- Preheat the oven to 200ºC. Cut the sweet potato and butternut squash into wedges or cubes. Toss them with oil, salt and pepper, then roast for 25-30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat 2 tbsp of oil in a big pan and add the onions and celery with a pinch of salt, sauté for 5 minutes. Then add the bay leaf and garlic. Cook for 10 minutes until they are fragrant.
- Dissolve the vegetable bouillon powder in the boiling water, and pour into the pan. Also, add the whole tin of cannellini beans with the liquid.
- Add the kale and bring it to a boil, cook for 8-10 minutes, then do the plating. Place the roasted sweet potatoes and squash on top, and drizzle in a good splash of extra-virgin olive oil, together with a generous grind of black pepper. Grate some more hard cheese on top if you like. Serve with crusty bread.
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