Lunch

Jacket Potato with Chilli Beans and Cheddar

Name: Jacket Potato with Chilli Beans and Cheddar
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 300 g Potato; 150 g Red kidney beans, tinned and drained; 150 g Chopped tomatoes, tinned; 50 g Onion; 1 clove, about 3 g Garlic; 30 g Reduced-fat cheddar; 4 sprays Olive oil spray; Half a tsp Chilli powder; Half a tsp Ground cumin; Half a tsp Smoked paprika

Kidney beans cooked down in a spiced tomato sauce while the potato bakes, with reduced-fat cheddar melted over. 27 g of protein, no gluten.

Calories: 519kcal
Protein: 27g
Fat: 7g
Carbs: 88g

Per serving, makes 1. 15 minutes of work, then an hour in the oven. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Milk

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Ingredients

Potato300 g
Raw, peeled weight.
Red kidney beans, tinned and drained150 g
Drained weight.
Chopped tomatoes, tinned150 g
Onion50 g
Garlic1 clove, about 3 g
Reduced-fat cheddar30 g
Olive oil spray4 sprays
Counted at a quarter of a gram per spray, which is what the nozzle on most bottles delivers. Four sprays is 9 kcal.
Chilli powderHalf a tsp
Ground cuminHalf a tsp
Smoked paprikaHalf a tsp

Method

Prick the potato, rub it with salt and bake at 200°C for an hour.
In the last twenty minutes, soften the chopped onion in a sprayed pan for five minutes, add the garlic and spices for one minute, then the tomatoes and beans. Simmer for ten minutes until thick, crushing a few beans against the pan.
Split the potato, fill it with the beans and grate the cheddar over so it melts into them.

Worth knowing

The bean sauce is better made in a batch. Multiply by four and it keeps for four days, which turns the next three lunches into baking a potato.
Reduced-fat cheddar at 30 g is 78 kcal; ordinary cheddar at the same weight is 123. The difference is real but the reduced-fat kind melts less well, so grate it fine.

Other lunch recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every lunch between 450 and 600 calories a serving.

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Macros are calculated from the weights listed above using standard food composition values, and will shift with your own brands and measuring. Weigh what you can. This is a recipe, not dietary advice. The full health disclaimer is below.