Corn Chowder Stuffed Peppers

Incredible vegetarian food step on down

The Capsule Pantry in one sentence: Save money, time, and food waste by adopting a Capsule Pantry approach — a small number of ingredients that form the basis of thousands of different, highly flexible recipes.

I have a problem with vegetarian food.

Not the food itself - I cook vegetarian a lot and I love it. But I hate fake vegetarian - “chicken” nuggets, “vegan” bacon, and the like.

Why do that when you could cook incredible ways with vegetables instead?

Whenever I visit the UK, I stay with my brother and sister-in-law. She’s vegetarian which is great because it means I can flex my cooking muscles with a bit of a challenge. Meat-based dishes are always so easy. Vegetarian takes a bit more care and attention, if you don’t want to resort to fake chicken.

Whilst poking around in an Ottolenghi recipe book (if you’ve not come across him, his food is almost all veggie and always incredible) I found a recipe for stuffed peppers.

Great, I thought, but we could improve on it. Make it flexible. Make it Capsule Pantry worthy.

The result is corn chowder stuffed peppers with herb yogurt. One of the best dinners I made for my sister-in-law. It got thumbs up all round the family, including from their 5 and 2-year-olds.

Enjoy.

Key: Bold = Capsule Pantry ingredients

Serves 4