Bean Stew-a-licious!!

In the highly respectable neighbourhood of Leith Walk, where I now reside, there is more Chinese restaurants and supermarkets than there is lamp posts. Which fits in well with my obsession with Asian Food. However Jackie Chan would probably faint with horror if he saw the alterations I've made to traditional dishes.
The thing is, I'm not trying to be creative, I just seem to lack both the ingredients and the skills to recreate some of my favourite dishes, so I simply improvise with whats in the cupboard.


The other day I bought a jar of Black Bean sauce with all the best intentions to look up a recipe online and alter it to make it vegan. But by the time I'd arrived home for work I was so hungus (humongously hungry), that I just started dicing and cooking everything in sight until I'd created a one-pot-wonder.


So I will post the recipe for my Bean Stew-a-licious, but first I require no judgement for using ketchup instead of canned or fresh tomatoes as planned.

Bean Stew-a-licious

Ingredients:

1 tbs olive oil

1 small onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, diced

1 tsp red diced chilli 

1 red pepper, diced

handful of broccoli

1 can of kidney beans

couple of handfuls of spinach

1 tbs black bean sauce

dash of soy sauce

2 tbs of jamming jamaican tomato sauce (no I'm not kidding)

chopped coriander 

A grind or two of s&p

1 cup of brown rice

How to:

Chuck a cup of brown rice into a pot with 2 cups of water and a pinch of salt.

Get this on the stove first because we all know brown rice takes a trillion years to cook. Use white rice if it tickles ya fancy, I'm just trying to be healthy because it's the first week into the new year.

Saute your onions and red pepper for 4-5 min, thrown in the garlic and red chilli and cook for a further minute. Tip in your well drained and rinsed can of kidney beans, your broccoli, and if you have it, now would probably be a wicked time to add a can of chopped tomatoes, but if like me you don't have any handy, just add some of your jamming jamaican tomato sauce along with your black bean and soy sauce. Mix it all together with some s&p and coriander, put on the lip and allow to simmer until the broccoli is cooked. Add the spinach and allow to wilter for a further couple of minutes.

By this stage, god be willing, your brown rice will be cooked. And you're ready to serve.

Delish. 

Be sure to leave some beans leftover because they're awesome on nachos.