Chilli Con Carne {Easiest Ever Recipe}

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Chilli Con Carne {Easiest Ever Recipe}

This Chilli Con Carne recipe is packed with minced beef and red kidney beans. The BEST version of the family classic!

Prep Time10

Cook Time1

Total Time1 10

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Family Food

Servings:

Author: Sarah Rossi

Ingredients

2 tsp Sunflower oil
750 g Beef mince
1 Onion Peeled and finely chopped
3 cloves Garlic Peeled and crushed
2 tsp Mild chilli powder
1 tbsp Smoked paprika
1 tbsp Ground cumin
1 tbsp Dark brown sugar
800 g Chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp Tomato puree
800 g Kidney beans Drained and rinsed
2 Red peppers Chopped into 3cm pieces
300 ml Beef stock
25 g Dark chocolate Approx 1 square
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Metric - Imperial

Instructions

Heat the oil in a large, deep pan or saucepan over a medium heat. Add the mince, and fry for 5-10 mins, or until browned all over. Use a wooden spoon to break up the chunks as you go.
Reduce the heat to medium low and add the onion, garlic, chilli powder, paprika, cumin, brown sugar and plenty of salt and pepper.
Cook gently for a further 10 minutes, stirring frequently so the spices are toasted in the pan. Stir and reduce the heat if the mixture starts to 'catch' on the bottom of the pan.
Add the tomatoes, tomato puree, kidney beans, red peppers and beef stock, stirring well, pop a lid on the pan.
Simmer gently for 45 minutes.
Remove from the heat, stir through the chocolate until it's melted. Check for seasonings. If it's not spicy enough add more chilli powder to taste.

Notes

Beef mince: 10% fat mince would be best for this recipe, however - you could use 5% but the mince may be slightly tougher, or 20% (as it is cheaper) but you may want to drain off some of the fat

Cooking the mince: Your mince should be coloured all over and stating to turn golden in places

Garlic: I use garlic puree as it is so easy, the rough conversion would be 1tsp per clove

Peppers: I like red or green, but whichever colour you have is fine.

Dark chocolate: This needs to be really dark, good quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids or higher) you cannot substitute this with another type of chocolate as it will just make the chilli too sweet, so if you don't have the chocolate then leave it out

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