Featured Recipe
One-Hour Chili
Serves 4
We
all overindulged over the holidays! It’s time to remember that our
bodies need healthier foods, now!
Whole foods, otherwise known as real food, build vitality, give
us energy, and work to keep us healthy. Try this quick and easy meal for a
hearty, last-minute winter chili to warm the bones and nourish the soul
along with the body. Chock full of veggies and whole grains along with the
expected beans and meat, this recipe wins with the familiar flavor of a
good chili in a fraction of the time you might typically invest in making
chili.
Happy cooking!
1/2
onion, chopped
1/2
cup hulled raw barley
1
cup water or broth
2
15 oz. cans kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1-1
1/2 lb. ground meat (beef, turkey, soy crumbles, etc.)
2 4
oz. cans green chiles, drained, diced, or 1-2 fresh green chiles, raw or
roasted and peeled, diced
1
tsp. sea salt
1
tsp. cumin
1
tsp. oregano
4
cups shredded zucchini (about 2 medium zucchinis)
6
med. tomatoes, diced, or 2 15 oz. cans diced tomatoes, drained
Preheat oven to 450F degrees. Spray inside of 3 1/2- or 4-quart
cast iron Dutch oven and lid with olive oil. Scatter onions across the
bottom of pot. Pour in amaranth and water and spread into an even layer.
In a
medium bowl, mix together beans, meat, chiles, most of the sea salt, cumin,
and oregano. Drop ragged forkfuls into pot. Top with a layer of shredded
zucchini, then one of tomatoes. Lightly salt with remaining sea salt. Cover
and bake for about 53 minutes, or until 3 minutes after the aroma of a
fully-cooked meal wafts from the oven.
Tips
My food processor has a shredding disc which works
wonderfully for shredding zucchini, however, sometimes I use my manual
grating tower to get the same results with fewer dishes to wash. The
shredded zucchini gives this Glorious One-Pot Meal a thicker stew-like
consistency so that it is quite a hearty dinner.
Recipe courtesy of Elizabeth Yarnell
Visit Elizabeth's website: http://www.gloriousonepotmeals.com
Elizabeth Yarnell is a Certified Nutritional Consultant, MS
patient, inventor and author of the award-winning cookbook, Glorious
One-Pot Meals: A new quick & healthy approach to Dutch oven cooking.
Her recipes are protected by US patent 6,846,504. Visit Elizabeth online
and subscribe to her free newsletter at www.gloriousonepotmeals.com.
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