Black Bean Beef Chili Recipe

By Amanda Sanders


You will find numerous great recipes for different dishes. Some of these dishes can be easily prepared while others require more time and effort. In any case, you might find this delicious black bean beef chili recipe quite interesting, and it is really easy to prepare. For those with more time, there is another recipe down there.

So, for preparing this lovely dish you will need two onions, finely chopped, approximately four garlic cloves, depending on your taste, chopped or minced, four nice slices of smoked bacon, one pound of ground beef, one can of black beans and twice as much of peeled, crushed plum tomatoes, one teaspoon of chili powder, cumin, unsweetened cocoa and dry oregano, salt and pepper, olive oil, one tablespoon of sweet paprika powder and a cup of good beef broth.

In a large pan, on medium heat, brown slices of smoked bacon on a little bit of olive oil, together with garlic. Remove bacon and garlic from the pan, add more olive oil and chopped onions. After a while, add chopped sweet paprika and a little bit of salt. Cook for a few minutes, and add ground beef. Cook for another five to ten minutes, and add rinsed and drained black beans and previously removed bacon and garlic.

After a few minutes, add other ingredients and spices and leave everything cooking on low heat for twenty minutes or so. Add more salt or more other ingredients if you, for example, like your chili to be really hot. Serve with fresh sliced vegetables and green salad, tortilla or toasted bread. Some people prefer serving this specialty with grated hard cheese and sour cream instead.

Preparing the same dish in your slow cooker requires more time, but it tastes simply great this way. If you prepare larger quantity, you can put it into your freezer and serve whenever you feel like it. This recipe is equally simple, it just takes more time to cook. It is great for various gatherings and quite hot, but you probably expect it to be hot anyway.

So, for this slow cooker chili you need to chop four medium sized onions, two larger carrots, one red and one green sweet pepper and at least six cloves of garlic. You can use two pounds of diced or ground meat. You also need six slices of good smoked bacon, three cans crushed plum tomatoes, beef broth, cumin, oregano and cocoa, one teaspoon each and two teaspoons of hot chili powder, as well as one tablespoon, or two, of nice smoked paprika powder, salt, pepper, olive oil and, at the end, a spoon of red wine.

First, you have to fry your onions on olive oil in some large pan. When yellow, add carrots, chopped peppers, salt and garlic. After that, you can add meat and bacon. When it is brown, add spices and broth, beans and tomatoes. Put everything into the slow cooker and let it simmer for another two hours or so. Everything should be soft and tender.

Here is a little additional dish you can make using the leftovers. Put some olive oil in a pan, add chili, cover with canned crushed tomatoes, sour cream and grated hard cheese. Bake in preheated oven for up to forty minutes, and it is done. Serve with mash potato, salad or various vegetables and enjoy.




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