American
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb sweet potatoes
- 2 15 oz cans canned black beans
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 red bell pepper
- 28 oz diced tomatoes
- 3 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 lime
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the olive oil in a pot over medium and cook the onion, garlic, and bell pepper until soft, about 6 minutes.
- Stir in the cumin, smoked paprika, chili powder, and cinnamon until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add the peeled and cubed sweet potatoes, diced tomatoes, and broth and bring to a boil.
- Simmer until the sweet potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
- Stir in the drained black beans and the salt and simmer 8 minutes more, mashing a few sweet potato pieces to thicken.
- Finish with a squeeze of lime and the cilantro and serve.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on sweet potato, black bean, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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