Monday 25 January 2016

Sweet and sour bean and vegetable hotpot

Welcome to two new readers - Alwayshappy and DHE. Lovely to have you aboard :)

This recipe is both gluten free and vegan.



450g unpeeled potatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp plain GF flour or cornflour
1 can chopped tomatoes or passata
150ml Apple juice
3 tbsp each : Demerara sugar, tomato ketchup, dry sherry (or chinese cooking wine), vinegar (I used up the rice vinegar I had in the cupboard) and tamari sauce (use light soy if you are not coeliac)
1 can chick peas
1 can borlotti beans
1 can butter beans 
1 finely chopped onion
A handful of mushrooms, sliced
1 carrot finely diced
2 tsp dried herbs or 2 tbsp mixed chopped fresh herbs

Put the cornflour, tomatoes, apple juice, sugar, sherry, vinegar and tamari sauce in a medium pan and whisk over a medium heat until it thickens. Simmer for about 3 mins, whisking occasionally.

Put the beans (you can use any combination of beans you wish here of course - I used what I had) with the vegetables (again you could use sweetcorn/peas/green beans etc ) and herbs in a large shallow casserole dish. Stir in the thickened sweet and sour sauce to coat thoroughly. You can season here, but I found it wasn't needed.


Finely slice the potatoes and lay, neatly overlapping, over the bean mixture. (Mr D's idea of neat rows varied somewhat from the recipe, but who cares!) Drizzle with the olive oil. 
Cover with foil and put in the oven at 200c for about an hour. Take the foil off for the final 20 mins to brown the potatoes. 

We served it with crusty bread and a nice crisp green salad. Very tasty and very healthy!

This is what my daughter is facing in New Jersey, America! It'll be the most snow she's experienced!


15 comments:

  1. Sounds delicious, I have all the ingredients so it is on next weeks planner. I do like a one pot wonder I will shred spinach and pile on a hot plate then dollop the hotpot on top and the spinach is wilted ready to enjoy.

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    1. That sounds nice. The ingredients are very variable which is great! This made enough for six servings.

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  2. My kind of meal! Those potatoes are my favourite way of having them!

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  3. My kind of meal! Those potatoes are my favourite way of having them!

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    1. I love potatoes any which way they are served, but I do love gratin dauphinois...although that might be the cream, cheese and garlic?!

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  4. I love hotpot style meals, layers of goodness. Yum yum. Just the sort of food we need witht he weather heading our way!

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    1. It would have cooked well in a slow cooker I imagine. It was very apt for the chilly weather :)

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  5. oohhh that dish looks and sounds lovely myself and my family are vegetarian and im always looking for nice hearty meals to make thank you for sharing :-) The snow looks so pretty but I know what a pain it can be to. Have a lovely week, dee x

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    1. That's a pleasure :)
      The snow was amazing, but she couldn't really go out in it as she doesn't have suitable clothes out there :( I guess she couldn't fit anything more in her suitcase!

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  6. Such a lovely looking meal, I am certainly going to give that a try. I too gave up work when my husband took early retirement, we have not looked back and wonder how we ever managed the time to actually got to work.

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    1. I'm sure you won't regret giving it a try.
      I long for my husband to take early retirement - I'd like to have someone to share my time with. I have loved this change of lifestyle though - it's very satisfying :)

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  7. That looks fabulous, and wow to the snow picture - now that is winter!!

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  8. This looks amazing. I am a vegetarian and aspiring to be vegan. Thank you for sharing this!

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  9. This looks amazing. I am a vegetarian and aspiring to be vegan. Thank you for sharing this!

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