Vegetable bean chili.

Raymond Blanc vegetable bean chili recipe on Kew on a Plate | TV Foods:
By Raymond Blanc on Kew on a Plate.
Raymond says: “The list of ingredients here may look long and daunting but I promise you, the recipe is very simple – a one-pot wonder. This recipe was kindly given to me by a great chef – Bruno Loubet – who worked with me for many years. Risking Bruno’s wrath, I made a few changes to the recipe. I hope he will forgive my boldness and see the wisdom of an older man.”


Ingredients
For the toasted spices
1½ tsp ground coriander
1½ tsp ground cumin
2 tsp sweet smoked paprika

For the vegetable base
125g onion (about ½), cut into chunks
3 garlic cloves, crushed
125g celery, cut into 3cm/1¼in chunks
70g fennel, cut into 3cm/1¼in chunks
1 large carrot, cut into 3cm/1¼in chunks
375g button mushrooms
1 red chilli
12g fresh root ginger, finely grated or sliced
1 red pepper, cut into large dice

For the chilli
100ml rapeseed oil
large pinch sea salt

For the rice
100g flageolet beans
260g brown basmati rice
1 bay leaf

To finish the chilli
100g tomato purée
200g piquillo peppers
1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
1 x 240g tin red kidney beans (drained weight)
100g brown sauce
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

To finish:
40g chocolate (100 per cent cocoa solids), finely grated,
10g coriander leaves, roughly chopped,
salt and freshly ground black pepper.


Preparation method
For the toasted spices, in a dry frying pan over a low–medium heat, cook the spices for a minute – taking care to ensure you don’t burn them (you just want to extract the essential oils).
Set aside.
For the vegetable base, add the onion, garlic, celery, fennel, carrot, mushrooms, chilli, ginger and red pepper to a food processor.
Pulse in 3-second bursts for 30 seconds, until you have 2–3mm dice.
This may need to be done in batches depending on the capacity of your food processor.
For the chilli, heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat and gently fry the vegetable base, toasted spices, and a large pinch of salt for 10 minutes.
For the rice, in a separate large saucepan over a high heat, bring 550ml/1 pint water to the boil and cook the flageolet beans for 10 minutes on a full boil until just tender.
Lift the beans from the pan using a slotted spoon but keep the cooking liquor on the heat as you will use it to cook the rice.
Reserve the beans.
To finish the chilli, add the tomato purée, piquillo peppers and tinned tomatoes and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add the kidney beans, cooked flageolet beans, brown and Worcestershire sauces and leave to cook for a further 5 minutes.
While the chilli is cooking, cook the brown rice in the flageolet bean cooking liquor with the bay leaf and simmer for 15–20 minutes, covered with a lid.
Depending on the variety of rice, it may take a few more minutes.
Once cooked, drain off any excess liquid and transfer to serving dishes.
To finish, stir in the grated chocolate.
Taste and season with salt and pepper as required.
Serve the chilli with the chopped coriander and brown rice alongside.
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