Homemade Ground Beef Chili Recipe uses ingredients that your have in your home and is an easy recipe and versatile for your meal preferences.

Ingredients for this versatile chili recipe.

Obtain these ingredients for this amazing warming beef chili recipe for a meal.

Ground beef and chili, tomato and onion are some of the ingredients.

Kidney bean and cilantro for the additional ingredients for this amazing recipe.

Chili is one of the easiest meals to prepare at home, as it only uses a few main ingredients. There are many chili variations, but this is one basic chili recipe.

cooking the beef and ingredients for this recipe

Chili is, for the most part, composed of kidney beans and ground beef, but there are a number of other ingredients or substitutes that make for a wonderful chili meal.

A Versatile Recipe

This is one homemade chili recipe, although there are many variations of the meal. Grilled chicken may be used instead of ground beef, and great northern beans go well in that version (instead of kidney beans).

When making classic chili, kidney beans and beef are the only ingredients that are entirely necessary, although the other ingredients certainly make tasty additions. To make a soupier chili, a little bit of water may be stirred into the pot during step 7.

For vegetarian chili, simply use all of the ingredients from the above chili, minus the ground beef. The above chili recipe makes a full meal in itself, although the result may be used to top hot dogs or burgers. Chili is also delicious in a bread bowl.

homemade meal for lunch or supper. chili and beef

Here is one recipe for delicious, homemade chili that incorporates the flavors of many tasty ingredients.

Homemade Ground Beef Chili Recipe

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Total time

minutes

Homemade Ground Beef Chili Recipe uses ingredients that your have in your home and is an easy recipe and versatile for your meal preferences.

Ingredients

Two 15 ounce cans of pre-cooked kidney beans
1 lb. ground beef
1 large tomato, diced
1 small white onion, chopped or minced
1/4 of green bell pepper, chopped or minced
1 jalapeno or one-fourth of habanero pepper, minced (optional, these are both very spicy, although the habanero is much spicier)
2 tablespoons tomato sauce
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon hot sauce
cilantro, for garnish

Directions

In a large pot, greased lightly with olive oil, warm the kidney beans on the stove over medium heat. Stir the beans every few minutes.
Dice one large tomato, and chop or mince a small onion, and a satisfactory amount of green bell pepper. If using a jalapeno or habanero pepper, mince it as well.
Place the ground beef in a frying pan set over medium heat, and stir in about one half of the sliced tomato, onion, bell pepper, and hot pepper (if used). Set the other half of these aside. The frying pan should now contain some of all of the ingredients from the last step and all of the ground beef.
Add tomato sauce, chili powder, salt, pepper, and hot sauce to the pan.
Stir the ingredients of the pan around until the beef is browned and mostly cooked.
Pour the contents of the frying pan into the pot with the kidney beans, still heated at medium. Add the remainder of the sliced tomato, onion, and peppers to the pot.
Cover the pot, and wait. Remove cover, and stir the ingredients around every few minutes, and replace the top. After about twenty minutes on medium heat, the chili should be done. Garnish with cilantro, and serve.

Notes

This is one homemade chili recipe, although there are many variations of the meal. Grilled chicken may be used instead of ground beef, and great northern beans go well in that version (instead of kidney beans).
When making classic chili, kidney beans and beef are the only ingredients that are entirely necessary, although the other ingredients certainly make tasty additions. To make a soupier chili, a little bit of water may be stirred into the pot during step 7.
For vegetarian chili, simply use all of the ingredients from the above chili, minus the ground beef. The above chili recipe makes a full meal in itself, although the result may be used to top hot dogs or burgers. Chili is also delicious in a bread bowl.

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