Most chili recipes use ground beef, but this version uses real chunks of lean beef for deeper flavor and a better texture. Slow simmered with tomatoes, kidney beans, and warm spices, this hearty beef chili becomes rich, thick, and incredibly satisfying.
If you enjoy proper comfort food cooking, one-pot meals, and big bowls of chili, this recipe is simple, affordable, and perfect for batch cooking.
This style of chili has a more rustic, stew-like texture, making it perfect with rice, cornbread, baked potatoes, or tortilla chips.
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Ingredients (Serves 4–6)
Beef
Lean beef, cut into 1–1.5 cm cubes – 700 g | 24 oz | 4½ cups US | 4 cups UK
Base
Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp | 3 tsp | 15 ml
Onion, diced – 200 g | 1½ cups US | 1¼ cups UK
Garlic, minced – 3 cloves | 9 g | 1 tbsp
Vegetables
Green bell pepper, diced – 150 g | 1 cup US | ¾ cup UK
Carrot, diced (optional) – 100 g | ¾ cup US | ⅔ cup UK
Spices
Chili powder – 2 tbsp | 6 tsp | 16 g
Ground cumin – 2 tsp | 4 g
Smoked paprika – 1 tsp | 2 g
Dried oregano – 1 tsp | 1 g
Black pepper – ½ tsp | 1 g
Salt – 1 tsp | 6 g
Sauce & Beans
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp | 6 tsp | 30 g
Crushed tomatoes – 400 g | 1¾ cups US | 1½ cups UK
Kidney beans, drained – 400 g tin | 1½ cups US | 1¼ cups UK
Beef stock – 1½ cups US | 1½ cups UK | 360 ml
Optional finish
Brown sugar – 1 tsp | 5 ml | 4 g
Cocoa powder or dark chocolate – ½ tsp | 2 g
Fresh coriander or parsley – 2 tbsp | 6 tsp | 8 g
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30 Comments
Hi Rick – yes, it does your head in when there is so much water injected into the meat that you have paid for! A right rip-off.
This recipe is 'proper' and very traditional type of Colarado Chilli con Carne. Mince is a modern thing for chillies… so this harks back to the old cowboy recipes (sorry – I'm a bit of a traditionalist with chillies!) – of course you can make it also very very hot. But this is a nice flavourful and filling dish. I reckon best served with corn bread or flat bread… rice is a 'new' thing 🙂
Hello Rick!… This is gonna be our next recipe…
Those sausage and bell peppers were a success last Sunday… it's gonna be a cult one,like one pot chorizo pasta,blue cheese sauce, any pasta lasagna …
Love and Light from Brazil!
Leave the seeds in, it makes a difference.
Great recipe Rik, love a good beef chili 😊
I've never seen carrot in chili. Any specific reason for carrots in your dish, sweetness?
I hate butter beans, any suggestion Rik as a replacement?
Morning 🌄 Rik looks very tasty 😋 thanks for sharing Johno Whyalla South Australia 🇦🇺
Lovely that Rik, I often make spag Bol with shin beef it's so nice and much richer in flavour than mince . Thanks my lovely friend 👍
Looks absolutely delicious! Very appetising thank you Chef Rik! Best chef on yt! ♥️🙌🏼
The Bob Ross of cooking..
Rik, you are an amazing chef, rivalling any in some fancy hotel. So many fabulous recipes.
Some alternate things: fry the beef with some cumin and chili rubbed on along with the salt and pepper. Also, not all chili has tomato of any kind in it. The color is powdered chilies, usually of different kinds. This is also the only chili I've ever heard of that has carrots in it. Cocoa is good. So is adding a bottle of good lager (not too hoppy to avoid bitterness).
I used cook beef and potato and tin tomatoes slow
Rik you know how to make something delicious an hearty
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beautiful Rik
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Looks so much better than my chilli!
Mind ya in beef stews I sometimes use a square of galaxy chocolate.
Better still ALDI's cheap dark chocolate. You always make me HUNGRY, please STOP make something AWFUL like ground semolina pudding like we were forced to eat in school 50's and 60's!
Truly love your vids!
My daughter makes her chilli this way Rik , delicious thank you for reminding me it doesn’t have to be mince 👍Amanda xx
Really loving your recipes and channel. I subscribed for the classic British dishes, but I'm really enjoying the variety from different parts of the world.
❤😋😋😋 gona be trying that, like your pan is it induction freindly have said the brand ? ❤❤❤
Much better than ground beef. Nice fatty streaks in the beef is always more flavour. Sadly beef in Canada has become ridiculous. chicken, pork and turkey have become affordable everyday fare..
I made chilli tonight! I got 5 green chillis I THOUGHT were Jalapeños, but thy weren’t!!! LUCKILY I tasted them 1st, and found thy were HOT as! so I only put in 2 bits BUT when I did the de-seeding, of them they BURNT my fingers! OMG that has NEVER happened to me before! It's been 6 hrs, they are STILL burning! Thankfully i have steroid ointment to rub on them! It's INSANE!!! EVER had that happen to you???
delicious rik columbo would be proud😂
Delicious 😋
oh my but every time I hear your kitchen timer ring I almost jump up to go to my kitchen to check on my dinner making. Even at my breakfast coffee time.
This is how my husband made chili low and slow. Pinto beans in his, I had mine with rice he thought I was mad. 😂
I had to chase this feed from another site to come an give a negative comment! Not the ingredients. Not the food. I just thought your accent and clumsy skills irritated me. But then I listened and watched and saw and Flippin’ ‘eck….its a nice steady cook! Lovely job my friend well done. Looks awesome. More content please I shall subscribe
A dollop of nuttella instead of cocoa and sugar.. Cook until the chocolate flavour dissappears and the flavour is amazing
Like your style mate.