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
- Fry onion, garlic and spices.
- Add diced sweet potato, beans and tomatoes.
- 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