Chili con carne is a very cheap meal to make and quite delicious. It might seem that it takes a long time to cook, but it is not work intensive. It nicely blends all the Mexican ingredients into a protein rich meal that can be served with anything from tortilla chips to baked tortilla wraps, rice or just eat it by itself if you need a low carb option.
Chili con carne
Servings: 6 (0.88 eur/portion)
Preparation time: 20 min
Cooking time: 1.5 hours
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients
- 500 g minced beef (3.2 eur)
- 1 onion (0.2 eur)
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- pepper (sweet red pepper and green for color – can be jalapeno) (0.3 eur)
- 5 tbsp of tomato sauce
- 100 ml of red wine (0.3 eur)
- 1 can of diced tomatoes (0.62 eur)
- 1 can of red beans (0.69 eur)
- 200 ml of beef broth
- 2 tsps oregano
- 2 tsps ground cumin
- 2 tbsp muscovado sugar
- 2 tsps sweet paprika
- 1 tsp chili flakes
Directions
- Start cooking the meat into a hot pan with 2 tbsp of oil. You can cook it until it gets slightly or fully brown.
- Add the chopped onion, garlic and pepper and season with salt and let them cook for about 5 min.
- Add the spices too and let them infuse for an extra min.
- Add the wine, the tomato paste, the can of diced tomatoes as well as the chicken broth.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and let it cook on small to medium fire for about 45 min.
- After 45 min add the very well rinsed beans and let it cook for additional 25 min on low fire.
- It should reduce the liquid significantly and look like this:
- Serve it with tortilla chips or some cheese on top.
