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