Cajun beans and homemade chips
This is the ultimate healthy comfort food! It's great for lunch or dinner and, if you don't want chips, you can always try a different side: toast, a jacket potato or salad... just add whatever you fancy!
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 4 medium potatoes cut into chips
- Oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1 onion peeled and diced
- 1 red pepper deseeded and diced
- 1 carrot diced
- 1 courgette diced
- 1 tbsp cajun seasoning make your own - see below
- 400 g tin of chopped tomatoes
- 400 g tin of cannelini beans drained
- 2 tsp marmite
- 100 g cheddar cheese grated
Cajun seasoning
- 1 tbsp salt fine
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 2 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp turmeric
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and arrange the chips in a single layer on a baking tray (you may need to use 2) -pop them in the oven for 40 minutes turning half way through
- Heat some oil in a large, lidded pan. Cook the onion, pepper, carrot and courgette for 5 minutes
- Add a splash of water and give everything a stir. Turn down the heat and cook for a further 10 minutes with the lid on
- Add 1tbsp of the Cajun seasoning and cook out for a minute until fragrant.
- Add the tomatoes, beans and marmite and simmer for 20 minutes
- Serve the beans on top of the chips – finish off with a sprinkling of grated cheese
Notes
- Pop the extra Cajun seasoning in a jar in the fridge - it's great for BBQ season
- You may have extra beans left - you can either pop in the fridge for up to 5 days or it freezes really well