This is an easy, vegan recipe for when you need to feed a crowd. It’s a simple recipe, but it’s good and healthy.

It’s lightly spiced, but you could easily make it hotter by adding more chilli powder.

Ingredients

• 1tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 large carrot, finely chopped
• 1 green pepper, finely chopped
• 250g mushrooms, finely chopped
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 2 x 410g tins mixed beans, or kidney beans
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 1tbsp ketchup
• 100g pitted black olives
• 250g tinned sweetcorn

Instructions

1. Heat the vegetable oil in a large casserole and add the onion, pepper, carrot and mushrooms and cook for 5 mins until soft.
2. Season, then add the spices. Stir often until browned.
3. Stir in the beans, tomatoes, ketchup, olives and sweetcorn and then simmer gently for 20 – 30 mins.
4. Serve with rice or bread.