Chilli Chickpea Stew

Spicy Chickpea Stew

Chickpeas

Chickpeas are nutritious, versatile and cheap – and readily available in cans. If you are looking for a store cupboard recipe – this fits the bill and you can make changes according to what you have in your cupboards. Use it as a recipe by itself or as abase recipe to add other ingredients and make it go further

This is a vegetarian chilli recipe but you could add some leftover cooked chicken or beef if you would like to make it go further.

I have included red pepper and carrots but you could add mushrooms, celery, peas and/or sweetcorn. You could also substitute kidney beans with other pulses.

Chilli Chickpea Stew is delicious and versatile – an excellent store cupboard recipe

Store Cupboard Cooking

If you have times when you can’t get to the shops (like now during the Coronavirus Lockdown), it is useful to be able to make tasty meals from what you have available. You can make up this stew and add other things to it to make it go further – vegetable, pulses or leftover cooked meat. It is an ideal base recipe

Spice it up as much as you want. Serve with potato or rice and fresh vegetables or salad. Top it with cheese.

Midweek Supper

Chickpea Chilli is also very easy and quick to make in times when you are busy and want something nutritious and tasty with very little fuss. It is a recipe you will come back to again and again.