Vegetable chili recipe: looking for the best ever!

leonie_2

Hi folks

Please feel free to move this to the slow cooker thread. Its grown so big that I wasnt sure where to put it!

Basically, my son is a veggie, but my hubby complains when I dont make a 'meat' dinner so I want a good hearty vegetable chilli that I can bulk up with rice and make a good meal out of.

I've just bought a slow cooker so a recipe to go in there would be good :-)

Thanks ppl

Liz19

I made a lovely red bean chilli recently and I got the recipe from https://www.beyondbakedbeans.com. It was very simple and quick to make and was very filling.

squeaky

The nearest I could get was the chilli bean recipe from our main Old Style Recipe Collection which could be done in a slow cooker, and you could always lightly fry hubbie's mince or diced meat and just stir it into his portion just before serving...

No recipe is carved in stone and this one should adapt quite well. To convert cooking times from oven to slow cooker there's a helpful thread and link in the Complete Slow Cooker Collection at the top of Old Style

Swan_2

I haven't tried it myself, but I have a friend who used veggie mince with my chilli recipe & says it turned out well, so that might be worth a try

I've made the meat version in my slow cooker & it works well, just increase the ingredients to suit the capacity of your SC

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leonie_2

Great thanks everyone.

I'm going to pinch bits from each recipe. Looking forward to eating a non meat meal :-)

catkins

I make veggie chilli a lot (although not in a slow cooker, must admit I have never thought of using it for that!). I basically use lots of veg, i.e. onion, carrots, red and orange peppers, courgettes, cauliflower, green beans, mushrooms and then add kidney beans some tomato puree, small amount of coriander and cumin and chilli. Everyone I have ever cooked this for has loved it (even my friends who love meat) and I lot of said it is better than chilli made with meat

leonie_2

Yes thats why I decided to make one. I went to a friends buffet at Christmas and decided to try a little bit of the veggie option which was the chili. It was lovely and I imagine very satisfying (only had a teeny bit as it was a buffet) She used different veg and I didnt miss the meat at all!