Can you freeze veggie Chilli?
Yes. Freeze it in containers, one meal to each.
How to freeze and defrost it, with the Food Standards Agency’s advice at each step.
The recipe
One batch makes 8 portions.
Ingredients for 8 portions
Method
Prep
- Boil the kettle.
- Peel and dice onions, carrot and celery stick into 1 cm pieces.
- Deseed red pepper and green pepper and dice into 1 cm pieces.
- Crush garlic clove.
Cook the base
- Heat vegetable oil in your biggest pan over a low to medium heat. Add the onion, carrot, celery and harissa paste and fry for 12 minutes until soft. Add a splash of water if it starts to catch.
- While it softens, dissolve vegetable stock cube in water from the kettle in a jug, and drain red kidney beans and black beans.
- Stir in the garlic and peppers and cook for 5 minutes, until the peppers start to soften.
- Stir in hot chilli powder and smoked paprika and cook for 1 minute.
- Stir in tomato puree and cook for 1 minute.
Simmer
- Pour in chopped tomatoes, the beans and the stock. Stir and bring to the boil.
- Turn the heat down and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring now and then, until thick.
How to freeze
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cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Pour into your containers, one meal to each, and seal.
How to defrost
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the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Take it out of its container.
- Tip it into a pan and heat it, stirring, until it’s steaming hot all the way through.
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it is important that food is cooked to steaming hot throughout, rather than warmed
, says the Food Standards Agency.
How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety
Nutrition
Per portion- Energy
- 192 kcal
- Fat
- 5.4g
- Carbohydrate
- 23.6g
- Protein
- 9g
Nutrition details
- Energy
- 192 kcal
- Fat
- 5.4g
- of which saturates
- 1.9g
- Carbohydrate
- 23.6g
- of which sugars
- 10.1g
- Fibre
- 9.4g
- Protein
- 9g
- Salt
- 0.62g
Estimated from ingredient data.
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Used in
No special kit
- Works best in freezer bags Any freezer-safe container does the job too.
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Freezing and defrosting safely
The Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words.
Label everything you freeze.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
- Food Standards Agency Cooking your food gov.uk
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