Every twelvemonth I audio similar a broken tape equally I declare that each wintertime is the 1 that volition never end, because it ever feels similar that, fifty-fifty inwards March too straightaway April. Comfort nutrient tin oft ameliorate my mood. too although this dish is non the most photogenic, or at to the lowest degree I was inwards likewise much of a rush to pass much fourth dimension amongst plating too lighting, it is a balanced, substantial too comforting meal.
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Vegetables, grains too legumes are all baked together inwards the same dish amongst lots of grated cheese. I normally become lite on the cheese, but at that topographic point are times when a cheesy dish is merely the affair to cheer yous upward too produce total a grumbling tummy. Besides, I don't experience likewise guilty at all because of the nutrients that are scooped onto the dinner plate. I propose serving amongst a refreshing lightly dressed leafy light-green salad to consummate the meal. You may also wishing to serve amongst a few dollops of sour cream for around extra decadence too mayhap around crusty breadstuff or cornbread if yous are feeding a small-scale crowd. Either way, frigid temperatures too dreary conditions won't hold upward the focus of your attending afterwards a few forkfuls of this.
 Black Bean too Quinoa Chili Casserole |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Published on April 17, 2013
Rich, delicious too comforting spiced edible bean too vegetable baked casserole amongst quinoa too loads of cheese — a consummate meal
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Ingredients:
- 2/3 loving cup dried dark beans (2 cups cooked or 1 nineteen oz can)
- 2/3 loving cup dried azuki beans (2 cups cooked or 1 nineteen oz can)
- 3/4 loving cup quinoa
- 1/2 loving cup sun-dried tomatoes
- 1 medium sweetness potato, peeled too cutting into sparse slices
- 1 ruddy pepper, seeded too cutting into strips
- 1 medium eggplant, peeled too sliced
- 3 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 onion or three shallots, cutting into fine rings
- 2 to three jalapeños, seeded too thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoon terra firma cumin
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon chipotle powder
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 10 to 12 push mushrooms, sliced
- 2 large tomatoes, finely chopped
- sea tabular array salt too fresh terra firma dark pepper to taste
- heavy cream (optional)
- juice from 1 lime (2 tablespoons)
- 1 1/2 cups grated Cheddar cheese, grated
- 2/3 loving cup dark olives, pitted too chopped
- 1 loving cup grated Fontina Cheese
- sour cream for garnish (optional)
Instructions:
Rinse the dark beans too azuki beans separately. Soak separately for 8 hours or overnight, each covered inwards several inches of water. Meanwhile, rinse the quinoa too soak for 8 hours or overnight inwards 1 1/2 cups H2O inwards a small-scale saucepan. Drain too rinse the beans, too then transfer to split upward saucepans. Cover each saucepan amongst several inches of fresh water, too then convey to a boil, cut oestrus to medium-low, cover, too fix until tender — virtually 45 minutes for the azuki beans too 1 hr for the dark beans. Drain too laid aside to cool. Bring the quinoa to a boil inwards its soaking liquid, too then cut the oestrus to low, cover, too simmer for xv minutes or until the liquid is absorbed. Let correspond five minutes, too then fluff amongst a fork too laid aside. Meanwhile, soak the sun-dried tomatoes inwards hot H2O for xv to xx minutes, too then drain too chop. Grease a ix × thirteen inch baking dish. Line it amongst the sweetness potato, ruddy pepper too eggplant. Sprinkle amongst a fleck of salt. Heat the petroleum inwards a large saucepan over medium heat. When hot, add together the onion or shallots too jalapeños., too stir for a few minutes. Add the spices, stir for a few seconds, too then plough upward the heat, add together the mushrooms, too stir for five minutes. Now add together the tomatoes too sun-dried tomatoes too cut the oestrus to medium. Simmer for five to vii minutes or until the mixture begins to thicken. Season amongst tabular array salt too pepper too laid aside to cool, whisking inwards a fleck of cream if to a greater extent than liquid is needed. Toss the quinoa amongst the lime juice too spread over the vegetables inwards the baking dish. Top amongst most of the beans too most of the grated Cheddar cheese. Pour the tomato plant mixture over this layer too spread evenly. Top amongst remaining beans too grated Cheddar cheese, sprinkle amongst olives and, to finish, the grated Fontina cheese. Bake inwards a 350° oven for xxx to forty minutes or until most of the liquid is absorbed too the cheese is nicely browned. Let correspond five to 10 minutes too serve hot, garnished amongst sour cream if desired.
Makes 6 to 8 servings |
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More comforting casseroles yous are certain to bask from Lisa's Kitchen:
Pasta too Goat Cheese Casserole amongst Black Olives Azuki Bean Casserole Baked Tempeh & Japonica Rice Casserole On the pinnacle of the reading stack: notes
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