What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? Front-Runner Favs: Vegan Black Bean Stew! Autumn has arrived. And with it comes all the comfort we crave in foods that warm our toes and fill our tummies. You don’t have to be a meat-lover to appreciate a heaping bowl of hearty stew. Choose vegetable medleys and aromatic spices instead. Combine them all together in the slow cooker for savory results. Go meatless!
VEGAN BLACK BEAN STEW
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 large carrots, chopped
2 stalks celery, sliced
1 sweet onion, diced
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoon cumin
3 cups vegetable broth
45 ounces black beans, with liquid
1 cup sweet corn
Bell Pepper rings
Fresh Cilantro
Instructions:
In a large skillet over medium heat, warm olive oil. Add chopped carrots, sliced celery, and sweet onion. Sprinkle with seasoned salt and black pepper. Cook 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add tomato paste, garlic powder, and cumin. Cook 2 minutes longer until tomato paste turns brownish. Add 1/2 cup vegetable broth. Stir to combine. Transfer skillet mixture to a crockpot. Add black beans, sweet corn, and remaining vegetable broth. Stir well. Cover and cook on High for 4 hours or Low for 6 hours. Serve heaping bowls with bell pepper rings and cilantro to garnish.
Autumn? 🤔 Summer has hardly arrived here so I’ll save this one for later! 😋😋😋
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Yeah, I got ahead of myself. Busted. 😜🍃
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For a moment there I thought you’d moved to the southern hemisphere 😂🙃😉
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Me too!
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Honestly, I’m trying to run a rummage sale on Facebook so I don’t know if I’m coming or going. 🤣🍃
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Not happening. 🤣
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Black beans are a neglected legume. I might cook some tomorrow.
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I really love them in soups. Then again, I can eat soup year around. 🍲
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I love black beans. Just this week I had black beans and rice with breaded steak. Black bean stew is right up my alley.
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Sounds delicious. Now I’m in the mood for Chicken Mole with black beans and rice. 🌿😋
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Yum
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Looking tasty!😋
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Sometimes I cheat and add cheese. 🍃🧀
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Haha!😄😊
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I’m trying this.
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Enjoy! Let me know if you’d have it again. 😜🍃
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I’ve never had them in a stew. It sounds good.
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I like beans, so I look for an excuse to have them more often. 😋🌿
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Don’t eat too much. 😜🍃😋
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It would be great on this cool spring like day 🌄😃🌱
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It’s rainy here, so I agree. Comfort food. 😋🌿
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Rainy and cool here too. Serve me up a bowl please 😋🌱
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Looks delicious!
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Thank you. 🙏🏻🍃 BTW…great food photos on your blog. 👀🍃
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You are so welcome! And thank you, that’s very kind 💜
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Looks wonderful.
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I’m thinking cornbread would be rather tasty with it, on the side. 👏
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Fantastic for the colder days!. :-)) xx
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True. But why are the days so cool all of a sudden? Should we blame the moon? 😜🌒
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Thats an idea, not singing better ranting to the moon! Lol xx
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Hot Floridian summer has arrived here, dear Gail, I am making this deliciousness for sure!
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What part of Florida do you live?
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I live where, according to Dave Barry, America ends and Cuba begins, or as close to the US as possible without actually living there. We live on a little island called Miami Beach, on the very tip of it, AKA ‘The European Playground.”
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I recently visited Marco Island simply because the Hawaiian island of Kauai was closed due to the pandemic. I fell in love with the area enough to imagine my future there. 👀🍃
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It gets under your skin, doesn’t it? You don’t ever want to leave, right?
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You are spot on! 💫
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🌴🍹😻
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Yum
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My recipes are easy enough for the novice, but appealing enough for the pros. 😋🌿
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I’m in the novice category, but this looks pretty tasty. Black bean soup is one of my favorites!
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I’m only a retired lady who loves to cook. 😋🌿
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Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing!
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This is a soup kind-of-day. What happened to Spring?! 😜🍃
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Sounds delicious…and so healthy.
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I’m never disappointed. 😍🌿
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Thanks for “Paying It Forward”. 💫
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Thaaanks. Enjoy! 😋🌿
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This sounds so nice, I’m going to make it this week!
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Fabulous. I make soups all year round! 💙🍃
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Wow this looks amazing 🤩🌱🙏
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It is one of my “go-to” comfort foods. 😋🌾
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