South American Bean and Sweet Potato Bake

"This recipe has been lurking in my filing system forever as a cutting from some magazine or other! It looks like there are a lot of ingredients, but there’s nothing unusual to find. The chocolate gives this recipe authenticity. Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 25mins
Ingredients:
19
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat the oil in a large saucepan and cook onion, peppers and celery for 8 minutes; stir in the next 9 ingredients (or in other words, everything except the topping ingredients) and simmer for 25 minutes; spoon the mixture into a large oven proof dish.
  • Preheat the oven to 375 F / 190 C /gas mark 5.
  • Drain off 4 tbsps water from the sweetcorn, then whizz the rest of the contents of the tin in a blender; place pureed sweetcorn in a saucepan, add polenta and stir and simmer to thicken.
  • Allow to sweetcorn mix to cool then beat in the egg; spread the mix over the filling and sprinkle over with paprika, sugar and salt.
  • Bake for 35 minutes.

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  1. Had a difficult time deciding how to rate this one. I think my simmer was not sufficiently vigorous and as a result my final dish was far more soupy than intended. Also, for dietary reasons I replaced the chocolate with about 2 tablespoon of Duth processed cocoa. Nonetheless, the taste of the stew was just delicious and I could envision making it with and without making the corn topping. Topping was very good as well - very moist and quite delicate - not bread-y. (I replaced the sugar with Splenda by the way.) Thanks Caroline.
     
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  1. Had a difficult time deciding how to rate this one. I think my simmer was not sufficiently vigorous and as a result my final dish was far more soupy than intended. Also, for dietary reasons I replaced the chocolate with about 2 tablespoon of Duth processed cocoa. Nonetheless, the taste of the stew was just delicious and I could envision making it with and without making the corn topping. Topping was very good as well - very moist and quite delicate - not bread-y. (I replaced the sugar with Splenda by the way.) Thanks Caroline.
     

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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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