Vegan Chili Mac Skillet – Sharon Palmer, The Plant Powered Dietitian

Ahh…Chili Mac! Get this scrumptious, budget-friendly, family-friendly, wholesome, plant-based consolation meals skillets meal on the desk in half-hour. Signal me up! Serve it proper out of the skillet for simple clear up, too. This traditional chili mac and cheese recipe is made right into a lighter, more healthy plant-based model due to its basis of tempeh, spices, tomatoes, corn, onions, and black beans. Gentle in fat, sodium, and sugars, this can be a easy, savory meal the entire household will love.

Based mostly on economical pantry staples–macaroni, spices, EVOO, canned tomatoes, canned (or frozen) corn and black beans–you’ll be able to preserve readily available always, together with a number of recent components like onions, garlic, tempeh, and plant-based cheese, this recipe for Vegan Chili Mac Skillet is your new go-to recipe on busy nights of the week. It’s additionally fantastic for meal prep–make up a complete batch and portion it into particular person meals to pop into the microwave for lunch at work. Nice for faculty dorm rooms (cook dinner it on a scorching plate!) or attempt making an On the spot Pot chili mac by cooking it on the sauté setting as an alternative of over the range.

You too can swap out the components to match your pantry–attempt canned pinto beans, kidney beans, or chickpeas as an alternative of black beans, and frozen inexperienced beans or peas as an alternative of corn. Plus, you may get inventive together with your chili mac toppings–attempt the urged checklist beneath, together with cilantro, inexperienced onions, black olives, vegan bitter cream, avocadoes, radishes, lime or lemon wedges, and jalapenos. Make it your approach, or based mostly on what you’ve got readily available! 

Vitamin Notes

This vegan chili mac skillet recipe is a meal in a single, offering supply of plant protein, fiber, nutritional vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals, like anthocyanins, lutein, and lycopene to your day. You possibly can simply make this recipe right into a gluten-free chili mac through the use of gluten-free macaroni. And use complete grain macaroni to make this recipe supply of complete grains. 

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For different plant-based skillet meals, take a look at a few of my favorites:

Simple Vegan Bibimbap Skillet
Thai Tempeh Noodle Skillet
Simple Scalloped Potato White Bean Skillet
Rustic Vegan Corn Potato Sausage Skillet
Moroccan Chickpea Freekeh Eggplant Skillet

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