Black bean and sweet potato chili

A Mexican dinner for the galley that copes with rough seas, one pot, can be made ahead and frozen, needs no fridge, about 40 min hands-on.

  • Dinner
  • Mexican
  • ⏱ 40 min
  • 🌊 Sea tolerance 4/5
  • 🌶 Medium (on the side)
  • 🪨 Bare bones
  • vegan
  • vegetarian
  • pescatarian
  • gluten-free
  • kosher
  • halal

Ingredients

For 4 servings (one normal-appetite adult each). Per serving in brackets.

  • Sweet potato480 g (≈ 3.5 sweet potatos) (120 g (≈ 1 sweet potato))
  • Canned black beans480 g (120 g)
  • Canned chopped tomatoes480 g (120 g)
  • Onion (brown/yellow)200 g (≈ 2 onions) (50 g (≈ 0.5 onion))
  • Garlic (bulb)16 g (≈ 0.5 bulb) (4 g)
  • Ground cumin8 g (2 g)
  • Smoked paprika8 g (2 g)
  • Chili flakes2 g (0.5 g)
  • Extra-virgin olive oil32 g (8 g)

Method

  1. Fry onion, garlic and spices.
  2. Add diced sweet potato, beans and tomatoes.
  3. Simmer 25 minutes until thick.

In the galley

  • Copes with a seaway — 4/5 for sea tolerance.
  • Stow the main ingredients in a cool, dark locker — nothing here needs a fridge.
  • Make ahead: cook in port and freeze in portions.
  • One pot — less to secure, less washing-up with fresh water.
  • No listed allergens in our data — still check the labels of what you buy.

Per serving

🪶 Light · 🌾 Fibre-rich

kcal
343
protein
12 g
fat
10 g
carbs
56 g
sugar
11 g
fibre
16 g

From USDA FoodData Central, raw weights — a planning guide, not a label.

Nutrition per serving: USDA FoodData Central — SR Legacy (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service), weighted by each ingredient's grams — a planning guide, not a label. Quantities follow standard portion sizes; this recipe hasn't been tested in a real galley yet. How we make recipes

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