Jerk sweet potato & black bean curry

Jerk sweet potato & black bean curry

Serve your vegetable curry Caribbean style, flavoured with thyme, jerk seasoning and red peppers – great with rice and peas

Prep50 min
Cook45 min
Total1 hr 35 min
Servings10
Difficultymedium
Dinner / SupperEntrees

Ingredients

  • 2Onion, diced roughly chopped
  • 2 tbspsunflower oil
  • 1.76 ozGinger, roughly chopped
  • smallbunch coriander leaves and stalks separated
  • 3 tbspjerk seasoning
  • 2thyme sprigs
  • 14.11 ozcan tomato, chopped
  • 4 tbspRed Wine Vinegar
  • 3 tbspdemerara sugar
  • 2vegetable stock cubes, crumbled
  • 2.2 lbsweet potato cut into chunks, peeled
  • 2x 400g cans black beans, rinsed drained
  • 15.87 ozjar roasted red pepper cut into thick slices

Instructions

  1. 1

    Gently soften the diced onion in the sunflower oil in a big pan or casserole.

  2. 2

    Meanwhile, whizz together the roughly chopped onion, ginger, coriander stalks and jerk seasoning with a hand-held blender. Add to the softened onion and fry until fragrant. Stir in the thyme, chopped tomatoes, vinegar, sugar and stock cubes with 600ml water and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 10 mins, then drop in the sweet potatoes and simmer for 10 mins more. Stir in the beans, peppers and some seasoning, and simmer for another 5 mins until the potatoes are almost tender. Cool and chill for up to 2 days.

  3. 3

    To serve, gently heat through on the hob. Roughly chop most of the coriander leaves and stir in, then serve scattered with the remaining leaves.