Classic Chili Con Carne
Classic Chili con Carne is the perfect cold-weather food, it’s comfort food at its best. Cook up a batch to enjoy while watching the big game. Full of vitamins and flavour, it’ll become your go-to chili recipe.
Classic Chili con Carne
This beautiful classic chili recipe is perfectly paired with these easy Baking Powder Biscuits or Moist Cornbread. So make sure to check that out as well, to make one fantastic duo!
When my fabulous and talented group and foodie bloggers and I settled on a ‘Chili’ theme for this weeks recipe, I had to stifle a laugh. Could I really make Chili again after ‘the incident’?!
Still fresh in memory and most likely still evidence throughout, I wasn’t sure I wanted to go that route again.
That is until we had another week of -40 weather {shaking fists at the sky} and hubby asking, ‘Think we could have Chili tonight?’ … YES! While I could have made my Taco Chili, I was craving the comforting original that made me fall in love with the dish in the first place.
I make this in the slow cooker, but in reality that is for convenience. If you’d rather it be done quicker, cook on the stove top until beans are soft and enjoy!
Fact is, I didn’t have a physical recipe for the Classic Chili con Carne that I have been making for 20 years.
I first learned in the cooking portion of Home Economics class in Junior High and have made it by memory since then after altering it through the years, to taste.
It’s one of those recipes that I could make in my sleep. A no fail, tried and true comfort meal that is full of veggies and beans.
It was about time I put my recipe to paper and be added to the Recipe Box, perhaps one day my kids will want to make Mom’s Classic Chili con Carne and hopefully get a dose of karma with their own clumsy kids {again, see ‘the incident’}.
Best Chili Con Carne Recipe Ever!
Chili is the perfect cold-weather food, it’s comfort food at its best. Cook up a batch of this robust chili to enjoy while watching the big game. Full of vitamins and flavour, it’ll become your go-to chili recipe.
Note that this isn’t a spicy Chili, the kids don’t like a ton of spices so we have learned to add it to the end as preferred. So when done, add hot sauce/cayenne pepper/black pepper {and cheese} as desired.
The photos are pictured with my Easy Baking Powder Biscuits, a perfect pair with this chili recipe! This is another recipt that I learned in school and have been making for so many year.
Classic Chili con Carne
Ingredients
- 1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 large onion (diced)
- 1 red bell pepper (diced)
- 1 green or yellow bell pepper (diced)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- 1 28 oz can diced tomatoes
- 1 16 oz can kidney beans
- 1 16 oz can beans with pork
- 1 16 oz can whole or sliced Mushrooms
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tbsp oregano
- 1 tsp cayenne
- Shredded cheese (as a topping)
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a pan cook ground beef and onions until thoroughly cooked. Add spices to the last 1 minute of cooking.
- Add beef mixture and all the other ingredients to a slow cooker.
- Cook on low for 8 hours
- Enjoy!
I love chili because its easy to make, easy to freeze and serve. Its one of my fave comfort meals. I like to add black beans and corn sometimes too. Dont forget the fresh bread to dip as well as cheese and sour cream to top !
My kids are not big fans of chili but I love it, especially with mushrooms~
Great recipe, Tammi 🙂 I love melted cheese on chili!
My chili recipe changes each time i make it .. lately I have been doing it in the crock pot and replacing beef with ground chicken and/or turkey this post reminds me I am all out .. I like to make a BIG pot and freeze it
I wish my kids liked Chili :(, I would really like to try this recipe
That sounds yummy on a cold snowy day.
Looks lovely, how much of a pain is it to try and relay a recipe you haven’t written down lol. You did well!
I was just thinking of breaking out the slow cooker for Sunday, going to try this chili. Thanks! 🙂
Nice, have a great rest of the weekend!
This looks yummy, have only just got a slow cooker so looking forward to trying lots of fab new recipes
Oh, you are going to fall in LOVE!!! 🙂
LOVE the slow cooker!!!! This recipe is fabulous Tammi and thank you so much for sharing it!!!
Thanks Kristen! xo
I love slow cooker recipes – they take so much pressure off of the dinner hour! Your recipe looks delicious!! And isn’t it amazing how far stuff can fly when dropped – we’ve had a few ‘incidents’ ourselves!! 🙂
Oh … the incidents!!! AHHHH!
And yes, I adore my slow cooker, could not live without it!!
Yum! I love slow cooker chili. The recipe sounds delicious.
Me too, love meals that are ready when you are. Fits so well with my schedule!
I love chili, it’s one of the first recipe I ever made too!
So good!!!
Those recipes that we have been making forever are always the best yet so hard to put on paper. Beautiful photo as usual.
It was hard to think of all the ingredients, hope I got them all, though it’s very versatile.
And thank you!! 🙂
Cold days do require chili, hope it was incident free this time. 🙂
Yes, I can happily say it was!! lol