Roasted Red Pepper Vegan Chili with Quinoa

Trying to find a high-protein vegetarian chili dish that’s loaded with flavor and easy to make? Use one single pot and make our flavorful Roasted Red Pepper Vegan Chili fully geared up with quinoa and beans.

A couple of years ago we published a Black Bean Quinoa Chili, which is one of my all-time preferred vegan chili recipes. The internet wild for it so we de chose to develop a spin-off dish that was made from a comparable base, but slightly various tastes.

Vegan Chili made with Roasted Red Pepper & Quinoa

Lately, I’ve been actually into sun-dried tomatoes and roasted red peppers. They include a lot excellent taste to everything. We thought we ‘d utilize a base of pureed roasted red peppers, beans, and quinoa for a hearty, delicious meal that is still loaded with protein and fiber sans the meat. That’s why this really is the ultimate vegetarian chili recipe! You won’t miss the meat at all, I assure.

Let’s go back to the roasted red peppers for a 2nd. In this vegetarian chili, we utilized store-bought, jarred roasted red peppers, however you can totally make your own if you’re into that. In order to get them saucy and velvety, you need to use a high-speed food processor. We dumped the whole contents of the jar consisting of the liquid right into my food mill and gave it a try for a great minute up until everything was pureed.

Reasons to Make This Vegetarian Chili

If the roasted red pepper x quinoa combo hasn’t persuaded you to whip up this incredible chili. Here are a few more reasons that you need to make it.

• You just need to use one pot for this entire meal. Start off by bringing quinoa and water to a boil and then include the rest of the active ingredients to the very same pot and let that baby simmer.
• Supper is ready in less than 45 minutes.
• Leftovers for days. This dish serves 6!
• Get a serving of protein, fiber, and veggies!

Secret Component

In almost all of our chili dishes, we utilize the exact same secret active ingredient. Can you guess what we used in this quino chili dish?

Maple syrup!

That’s right. I included a couple of tablespoons of maple syrup to really draw out the flavor. It might sound a little odd, but I promise it does such great things for this chili.

Vegetarian Chili Add-In Ideas

If you’re considering getting additional fancy with this vegan chili, feel free to add other veggies such as sweet potatoes, peppers, or any kind of bean your heart desires. It’s one of those dishes where you might just keep including things to it and it simply improve and better. Do note that the more things you add to this vegetarian chili dish, the more spices you’re likely going to require to add to balance things out. Start with a bit more chili and garlic powder and go from there. Here are a few more add-in concepts:

• sweet potatoes
• russet potatoes
• leek
• squash
• peppers
• shallot

Finally, do not forget to go wild with your garnishes. Every bowl of chili should have a little bit of crunch. We served ours with some dairy-free yogurt, green onions, and purple onions.

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