Plant-based bean curry

It really isn’t complicated to make a bean curry. Beans are highly nutritious and full of fibre and protein and great for a vegan or plant-based diet. I have made it simpler by a simple bean curry recipe that includes my spice mix on our website Annie M’s spice mix for vegan bean curry. This way you don’t have to struggle with so many spices in your cupboards and it’s all measured for you. You can use any dried bean as long as you soak them, boil them according to cooking times on our chart or use organic canned beans. I do recommend using dried beans as they are more economical and you can cook them in big batches and keep them in the freezer.

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp cooking oil (I prefer grapeseed oil, sunflower oil or avocado oil)

• 1 1/4 cup chopped onion or 2 small onions

• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (included in Annie M’s Spice mix)

• 1 1/2 cup chopped potatoes in 1” cubes

• Annie M’s spice mix package *

• 1 1/2 tsp sea salt

• 2 tsp garlic paste

• 1 tsp ginger paste

• 1 roma tomato chopped

• 1/2 cup crushed tomatoes

• 2 cups water

• 2 cups cooked beans (choice of any cooked beans)

• 1 cup cilantro

Directions:

Heat oil in a medium sized pot. Add onions and saute till golden brown. Add the package of cumin seeds from Annie M’s spice mix package and saute for a minute. Then add potatoes and cook for 2 minutes. Add garlic, ginger, salt and Annie M’s spice mix and stir till potatoes and spices are mixed in. Add crushed tomatoes and water and cover pot till potatoes are almost tender (about 20 minutes). Add cooked beans and cook for another 10 minutes. Stir in cilantro, saving a little for garnish and serve with roti and or basmati rice.

• Note -you can add other vegetables like kale, zucchini & spinach simply by adding them with the cooked beans and let cook till done.

  *Annie M’s spice ingredients (coriander ground, cumin ground, turmeric , cayenne ground)

• We include the Rice Pilaff spice mix in this package. Check recipe here.