Chilli con carne

Recipes / Meat

For a variation, serve the chilli in tacos instead of tortillas, or use minced pork instead of beef.

Recipe «Chilli con carne» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 30 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author sheff would need: 2 onions, 2 cloves garlic, 1 large carrot, 2 stalks celery, 1 red capsicum , 4 fresh chorizo sausages, 2 tbsp olive oil, 500g minced beef , 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground chilli, 2 tbsp sweet paprika, 2 cinnamon quills, 1 tsp caster sugar, 2 x 400g cans diced Italian tomatoes, 2 tbsp red wine vinegar.

Ingredients:

  • 2 onions 
  • 2 cloves garlic 
  • 1 large carrot 
  • 2 stalks celery 
  • 1 red capsicum 
  • 4 fresh chorizo sausages 
  • 2 tbsp olive oil 
  • 500g minced beef 
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin 
  • 1 tsp ground coriander 
  • 1 tsp ground chilli 
  • 2 tbsp sweet paprika 
  • 2 cinnamon quills 
  • 1 tsp caster sugar 
  • 2 x 400g cans diced Italian tomatoes 
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar 
  • 400g can chickpeas 
  • 400g borlotti beans 
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste 
  • 2 avocados 

Instructions

  1. Peel onions, garlic and carrot. Cut into quarters with celery. Seed and quarter capsicum. Using a food processor, pulse vegetables and garlic in short bursts until coarsely chopped. Place in a bowl.
  2. Squeeze meat from chorizo casings and pull apart into 2cm pieces. Heat oil in a large casserole over medium–high heat. Add chorizo and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until browned. Add beef, spices, sugar and 2 teaspoons salt, and cook for 5 minutes, breaking up beef with the back of a spoon, or until browned.
  3. Add vegetable mixture to casserole and stir for 5 minutes or until softened. Add tomatoes and vinegar. Rinse and drain chickpeas and beans, then add to casserole with tomato paste. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes or until thickened.
  4. Meanwhile, to make guacamole, scoop avocado flesh into a bowl. Squeeze over lime juice. Pick a handful of coriander leaves and add to bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Mash together with a fork.
  5. Pick more coriander leaves and scatter over chilli con carne and serve with guacamole, sour cream and tortillas.