Mexican Chili Recipe

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We are living difficult times. Many people is struggle in to bring food home. This is the reason I will be sharing some easy, tasty and economical recipes. When it comes to saving, grains immediately come to mind. This Mexican chili recipe is made with ground beef and beans, which make it really nutritious and super delicious!

The mother of one of my best friends always prepared Chili Beans for her children’s birthday parties, the reason? Chili is the delicious way to prepare a super profitable, economic, nutritious and delicious dish. I prepare Chili con carne at least every two weeks. My children love it.

Get ready to make a giant pot of this chili beans with ground meat recipe. This is the perfect meal to eat again next day or freeze it to eat it next week… if there is something left.

HOMEMADE CHILI WITH BEANS

The truth is that this recipe is not Mexican. It is one of those spectacular Tex-Mex meals. They say that the origin of Chili goes back to San Antonio, Texas. Mexicans that became Americans when USA took over a big part of Mexico started to create their own culinary art.

Chilli beans recipe

The original Tex-Mex recipe is prepared with paprika to give it the red color and flavor. Some people add some kind of sauce to it but I like to prepare it with guajillo chili. The guajillo chiles take the chili beans to another level.

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WHAT INGREDIENTS DO I NEED TO MAKE CHILI

This is what you need to cook my recipe for Mexican Chili beans

Ground beef
Bay beans
Cumin
Oregano
Garlic
Onion
Guajillo chile
Tomato
Ingredients for making chili

HOW TO MAKE CHILI WITH MEAT STEP BY STEP

This is super easy. Here is the step-by-step recipe for making Chili beans with ground meat Mexican style for 8 servings

First cut 2 garlic cloves very finely and 5 tablespoons of onion.
Place 1.5 pounds of ground beef in a saucepan and add the garlic and onion.
Season with 1 tsp. Oregano and ½ cumin. Add 1 tsp of salt. Cook everything until the meat is done.
While the meat is cooking, place the guajillo peppers to soak in hot water. Make sure they are submerged underwater. We want soft the pulp of the chili. This process takes between 5 and 7 minutes.
Blend the chilies in the blender along with 1.5 cups of the beans broth. Pass the pulp through a sieve and add to the meat.

Let the meat finish cooking with the guajillo broth and add ¾ cup of chopped tomato.

Add the beans and boil everything for another 5 minutes and ready the perfect and delicious homemade chili recipe.

HOW DO I COOK BEANS FOR CHILI

Beans are cooked separately. It is very easy to prepare beans in a pot or as we call them in Mexico, frijoles de la olla. In a saucepan, place 4 cups of beans with double the water of their volume and soak for at least half an hour. This will help you cook much faster and use less gas. Then rinse the water from the beans. Put the beans back in the pot along with 12 cups of water, 2 garlic cloves, ¼ of an onion and 1 tablespoon of salt. Bring to a boil over high heat and when they boil cover and set the heat low for about 1 hour.

Chili and meat

The truth is that I always cook the beans in the Instant Pot and they are ready in less time. Take advantage if you have a pressure cooker or instant Pot prepare them there.

Mexican Chili Recipe

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Prep Time: 20

Servings: people

Author: Laura Muller

Ingredients

4 cups of beans
680 gr of ground beef
1 spoon of chopped garlic
5 spoons of chopped onion
1 spoon of salt
½ tbsp of cumin
1 tbsp of oregano
6 guajillo chile
¾ cups of tomato

Instructions

First cut 2 garlic cloves very finely and 5 tablespoons of onion.
Place 1.5 pounds of ground beef in a saucepan and add the garlic and onion.
Season with 1 tsp. Oregano and ½ cumin. Add 1 tsp of salt. Cook everything until the meat is done.
While the meat is cooking, place the guajillo peppers to soak in hot water. Make sure they are submerged underwater. We want soft the pulp of the chili. This process takes between 5 and 7 minutes.
Blend the chilies in the blender along with 1.5 cups of the beans broth. Pass the pulp through a sieve and add to the meat.
Let the meat finish cooking with the guajillo broth and add ¾ cup of chopped tomato.
Add the beans and boil everything for another 5 minutes and ready the perfect and delicious homemade chili recipe.

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Laura Muller

Laura Muller is a trilingual Mexican mom living in the city of Chicago. Laura started her YouTube channel Las Recetas de Laura more than 10 years ago to teach people how to cook Mexican food in a healthier way. Laura's recipes are specialized for people with diabetes and high cholesterol. Laura promotes healthy eating for every body size and talks about her own experience dealing with being overweight and how people of any size can have an active and healthy life.

Laura creates content in Spanish and English for a community of over 3 million followers and has been recognized as one of the most influential Latinas in the US, Latinos 40 under 40 in Chicago.