Black Bean Beef Chili Recipe

By Amanda Sanders


There are so many great recipes you can enjoy in, but sometimes you simply have not enough time to prepare some of them. So, here you will find one black bean beef chili recipe you can prepare in one hour or so, and another one, that takes more time to prepare, but it's worth it. You won't be disappointed with either.

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.

First, you need a large pan, half of a total amount of olive oil and bacon and garlic. Brown the bacon, add garlic and then remove these ingredients from your pan. Add the rest of the oil, add onions and cook until soft. After that, add chopped sweet peppers and salt and cook for another few minutes. Now you can add ground beef, cook for ten minutes and add other ingredients, including fried 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.

The first recipe is really delicious, but some people say there is nothing like slowly cooked one. You might need more time, but it is definitely worth it. Maybe you should consider preparing double size, and keep a bowl or two of this delicious dish in your freezer. For larger group of people this amount will probably not be enough, anyway.

For this tasty slow cooker chili you will need three to four onions, depending on their size, two larger carrots, maybe six or seven garlic cloves, six slices of good smoked bacon, two pounds of diced beef, one green and one red chopped sweet peppers, one whole can of good broth, olive oil, cumin, oregano and cocoa powder, unsweetened, one teaspoon each, one tablespoon smoked paprika and three teaspoons of chili powder, salt, pepper, two cans of black beans, three cans tomatoes and a spoon of good red wine.

In a large pan, cook olive oil and salted chopped onions until soft and yellow, add garlic, carrots and sweet peppers and cook for another five minutes. Add diced meat and smoked bacon and cook until browned. Add smoked red paprika, spices and all other ingredients. Transfer everything into your slow cooker and cook for at least two hours on low heat.

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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