Name: Spicy mexican bean soup
Ingredients: Olive oil; 1 onion (preferably red), peeled and diced; 1 tin of chopped tomatoes; 1 tin of chilli beans; 1 clove of garlic, crushed; Chilli powder; 1 vegetable stock cube

Instructions

Step 1:

1. Fill the kettle and put it on to boil.

Step 2:

2. Fry the onion and garlic until soft in a large saucepan with a splash of olive oil.

Step 3:

3. Add the tin of tomatoes and the tin of chilli beans

Step 4:

4. Add chilli powder (as much or as little as you want, generally about 1tsp of mild)

Step 5:

5. Crumble a vegetable stock cube into a jug, and add 3/4 pint of boiling water. Stir well and add to the saucepan.

Step 6:

6. Bring to the boil then turn heat down and simmer gently for 20 minutes.