Our Chilli-Quorn-Carne recipe #ad

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Recipe time! I know, right - how have we managed to operate a parenting blog for so many years without a single recipe blog post? Well, here we are... finally!

To celebrate Quorn's wonderful new campaign, 'Helping the planet one bite at a time', here's our favourite meat-free recipe, Chilli-Quorn-Carne. Daddy created this recipe a few years ago because Tom's a veggie and Lyall loves Quorn mince. My veggie chilli is naturally low in fat, sugar and salt, it's meat-free and it uses affordable, tinned ingredients. Here we go!

Serves 4

Ingredients – in order of use

• Spray light oil

• Onion

• 1 cup vegetable stock

• large bag Quorn mince

• 20g (half small jar) mild chilli powder

• 1 tin baked beans

• 1 tin kidney beans

• 1 tin chopped tomatoes

• 1 carton passata

• 1 chopped chilli

• (optional) Vegan grated cheese

• Rice or nachos

Method

1. Spray a large frying pan with light oil spray

2. Finely chop a large onion and fry gently

3. Add a cup of stock and simmer until all the water has evaporated

4. Mix in a bag of defrosted Quorn mince

5. Mix in mild chilli powder

6. Mix in all the tinned ingredients and passata

7. Add finely chopped chilli (saving a little to use later as a garnish)

8. Season and simmer on a low heat for at least an hour - the longer, the tastier

9. Serve with rice or nachos

10. Garnish with a sprinkle of vegan grated cheese or chopped chilli