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

  • Prep:50 mins
    Cook:45 mins
  • Serves 10
  • Easy

Nutrition per serving

  • kcal 209
  • fat 3g
  • saturates 1g
  • carbs 39g
  • sugars 14g
  • fibre 7g
  • protein 6g
  • salt 0.7g

Ingredients

  • 2 onions, 1 diced, 1 roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 50g ginger, roughly chopped
  • small bunch coriander, leaves and stalks separated
  • 3 tbsp jerk seasoning
  • 2 thyme sprigs
  • 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • 4 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 3 tbsp demerara sugar
  • 2 vegetable stock cubes, crumbled
  • 1kg sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
  • 2 x 400g cans black beans, rinsed and drained
  • 450g jar roasted red peppers, cut into thick slices

Tip

Tip
If you’re making ahead, keep the coriander leaves fresh after you’ve chopped off the stalks – simply wrap in slightly damp kitchen paper.

Method

  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.

Suggested recipes from this collection...