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.