Easy Chili Recipe - How to Make Chili

Chili, Chilli, or Chili Con Carne is an easy stew recipe made chili peppers, chili powder, ground beef, red kidney beans, and some tomatoes. Easy Chili Recipe can be made with or without beans. I will be showing you how to make chili with beans. It is a spicy but delicious stew that you would love.

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mexican, Texas

Keyword Best Chili Recipe, Chili Recipes, Easy Chili Recipe, How to Make Chili

Cook Time 40

Servings 10 People

Calories 334kcal

Author Razi Brown

Equipment

Crock Pot
Instant Pot
Saucepan

Ingredients

2½ tbsp chili powder
500 grams ground beef lean ground beef
½ tsp paprika powder
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup fresh tomato sauce
1 cup diced tomatoes fresh
1 tsp cumin ground
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp oregano
2 cubes beef seasoning stocks crushed
400 grams red kidney beans drained. If your kidney beans are fresh, you need to properly cook them first before adding them to this chili con carne recipe. You can use a crock pot or instant pot for cooking the fresh beans. For this recipe, I am using canned beans because they are cooked already, it reduces the cooking time.
2 tbsp tomato paste
2 tsp sugar The sugar helps to tame the sour taste of tomatoes in the chili recipe
½ tsp black pepper ground
1 cup onions chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
1½ tsp salt

Instructions

Place your pot on the stovetop and add 2 tbsp of olive oil to it
When the oil is heated up, add 1 cup of chopped red onions
Saute for 3 minutes on medium heat until the onions are translucent
Go in with 3 minced garlic cloves and cook for 30 seconds until it is fragrant.
Next, add the ground beef
Break the ground beef with a spatula into small chunks
Cook the minced beef for 6 to 7 minutes until it is no longer pink; ensure you stir intermittently to prevent clumping of the ground beef.
Season this easy chili recipe with 2½ tbsp of chili powder.
Also, season the chili con carne with 1 tsp of cumin, 1 tsp of oregano, ½ tsp of paprika powder, ½ tsp of ground black pepper, 1½ tsp of salt, and ¼ tsp of cayenne pepper.
Add 2 beef stock cubes - crushed into the chili recipe. If you are using beef broth, no need of adding the beef stock cubes.
Also, go in with 2 tbsp of tomato paste.
After adding all the chili seasonings, stir to combine.
Go in with 300 ml of hot water. When using water, it is good to add beef stock to make the chili recipe tasty. But when using beef broth to substitute for water, then no need of adding beef stock cubes again.
Also, add 1 cup of tomato sauce
Add 1 cup of diced tomatoes and 2 tsp of sugar. The sugar helps to remove the sour taste of the tomato ingredients in this chili recipe. Stir to combine.
Reduce the heat to low and cover the chili and cook for 10 minutes.
Stir again after cooking the chili con carne for 10 minutes and then add 400 grams of red kidney beans. If the chilli is too thick, you can add a little water or broth to it.
Stir the kidney beans to combine with other ingredients.
Next, cover the chile con carne and cook for 20 minutes to soften the kidney beans and also give time for the ingredients to be well absorbed by the beans and the beef.
Stir to combine after 20 minutes and turn off the heat.
Allow the chilli recipe to rest for 10 minutes before serving.

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Notes

Using Beans in Chili

When using kidney beans, black beans, or any uncooked beans. You need to cook the beans until it is soft before adding to the chilli recipe. There are controversies about the addition of beans to chili. Classic chili recipe does not require the use of beans but most commercial chile con carne sold in the United States have beans added to it. Whenever canned chilli is sold without beans in it, it is called "chili no beans". Some companies do pre-cook beans and sell them Chili beans; because the precooked beans are intended for use in chili.

So whether you add beans to your own chile con carne recipe or not; it is a matter of choice as no opinion is generally accepted. Oftentimes, when chili is used as a topping, it is made without beans.

Addition of Tomatoes

Just as controversial as the use of beans is in chili, tomato also is considered by some as an optional ingredient. Where people add tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, or tomato paste there is a need to add sugar to tame down the tangy taste of the tomato component.

Use of beef broth

Also, adding beef broth or bouillon cubes make the chili recipe tasty. You can decide to go with anyone but if you add the beef broth, no need of adding the stock cubes again.