Low Point Vege-Mince Chilli

Low Point Vege-Mince Chilli

From the kitchen of MULETT

servings | 3
estimated Points® per serving | 3

Two large onions
Two courgettes
Two red peppers
Quantity of closed-cup mushrooms (10-15 small mushrooms or 5-6 of the very large ones)
Small quantity of cherry tomatoes
One tin kidney beans in chilli sauce
3rd Bag Linda McCartney 'easy cook' mince
Half tin chopped tomatoes (with garlic, if possible)
one teaspoon lazy garlic
one teaspoon lazy chilli
two teaspoons chilli powder (or to taste)
Spray cooking oil

1. Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees and then take a large, deep baking dish and spray it with a fine coating of the cooking oil. Place it into the oven to heat for five minutes or so.

2. Whilst this is heating, chop the onions, cherry tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms and courgettes into large chunks. Place them into the heated dish, give them a fine coating of the cooking oil and then place in the oven for half an hour, or until you can see they are cooked and have started to turn crispy golden brown around the edges.

3. Pour the kidney beans (and sauce) and half tin of tomatoes into a very large saucepan and heat gently until the liquid begins to bubble. Stir regularly. Add the lazy garlic and lazy chilli, and the chilli powder. Stir in the easy-cook mince, and then reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. If at any time you feel the liquid is becoming to thick, top it up with small amounts of vegetable stock until you are happy with the consistency.

4. Once the vegetables and mushrooms are cooked, add them to the saucepan and cover. Leave this to simmer for just a short time - 10 minutes at most.

5. Serve with potato wedges (cooked using only the spray-oil) and another nice touch which really works well (honestly!) is to have a lovely big dab of virtually fat-free cottage cheese on the side of the plate as well. Believe it or not, this goes really well with vege-chilli, and can help 'cool' the dish if you've made it very spicey!

If you wish, you can reduce the points further by removing the vege-mince and simply having it as a roasted vegetable chilli.