Chicken, butter bean & pepper stew

I went a bit off piste - a courgette instead of peppers/celery, 5 garlic cloves instead of 1, some red wine (why not), and some spinach, but it was great!

Had this last night. This was the first time I'd cooked this, and I followed the recipe but added a teaspoon of hot chilli powder because I looked at the ingredients and thought it might need a bit of extra flavour. The chilli powder added a bit of heat without being overpowering - we thought the…

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Great recipe. Tasty, filling, healthy and easy to make. We used Heinz mixed 5 beans instead of plain butter beans and also left out the celery because we didn't have any. I think the mix of beans in the tomato sauce added to the depth of flavour and next time will use celery too if we have it. We…

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Kept to recipe as I tend to much of the time when doing a new dish... It lacks a bit of umph in the taste, next time, might increase the paprika, or think of some other ingredient I can add. But very nice overall.

You could easily change the paprika to any other spice/herb for a different flavour. This was a very simple & filling meal but I might add some button mushrooms next time and possibly replace the chicken with pork fillet. Great meal to use up leftover veg.