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Wholesome vegetable curry with red pepper, sweet potato & peas

Wholesome vegetable curry with red pepper, sweet potato & peas

Why not start the school year with some new, quick and healthy family recipes, like this one? Created for the Uncle Ben's 'Back to School Buddy' campaign. All Uncle Ben's sauces include real, wholesome ingredients and contain no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Uncle Ben's sauces are packed with chunky vegetables like tomatoes, carrots, bamboo shoots, peppers and onions.

  • Preparation: 2 mins
  • Cooking: 8 mins
  • Serves: 4

What you need:

  • 500g jar Uncle Ben's Medium Curry sauce
  • 2 250g pouches of Uncle Ben's Express Pilau rice
  • 2 large brown skinned sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
  • 1 large red pepper, deseeded, cored and cut into chunks
  • 150g frozen peas

What you do:

  1. Cook the sweet potato in a pan of boiling water for 8 minutes until just tender
  2. Meanwhile, place the Uncle Ben's Medium Curry sauce, 75ml water, red pepper and the peas in a saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes
  3. Drain the sweet potato and stir into the curry sauce
  4. Heat up two pouches of Uncle Ben's Express Pilau rice according to the instructions and serve together

Handy cook's tip:

This recipe also works well with any other of your favourite vegetables. Use butternut squash, potato, courgette and yellow peppers to give a different kind of flavour

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