Healthy Comfort Stew

A couple weeks ago, after a weekend long of rain, I needed some type of comfort food.  I rifled through my cupboards and found a few things to make a filling stew!

I grabbed an acorn squash, kale, sweet potatoes, red curry paste, coconut milk and black beans. After preparing all of the ingredients, in it all went into my cast iron pot to gently simmer so that all the flavours marinated through and through. 

Then I had the old "get in my belly!" moment. I like this recipe because it is quick, easy and you can really play with the ratio of your ingredients. If you really like kale then load it up! It will only improve the recipe. It's also very colourful which is always a bonus.

Sunday Night Stew

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp of olive oil
• 1 medium size squash- acorn or butternut cut up into cubes
• 1 can of coconut milk
• 1 tsp of red curry paste (you can keep adding a tsp at a time to get the heat that you want) 
• 3 large de-vined Kale leaves (ripped up)
• 1 medium size sweet potato or 2 small sweet potatoes cut up into cubes
• 1 can of black beans (drained)
• 1 teaspoon of cornstarch

Directions:

• Put a frying pan on medium-high heat with two tablespoons of olive oil
• Wait until the oil heats (not smoking, you can test this with drops of water) and saute the ripped up kale leaves for 3 minutes.
• Add the squash and sweet potatoes for 2 minutes so that they get seared a bit.
• Add the coconut milk, curry paste and black beans and let it simmer for 10 minutes uncovered.
• Add 1 teaspoon of cornstarch for the mixture to thicken. Cook for another 5 minutes uncovered.   

Yay for easy recipes!