Lamb Chilli Con Carne with Brown Rice and Lime Yoghurt

Lamb Chilli Con Carne with Brown Rice and Lime Yoghurt

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 4
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, April 22, 2018.

Add some extra liquid to your chilli if it gets too thick.


Ingredients

LAMB CHILLI CON CARNE

  • 2 tsp oil
  • 500g lean ground lamb
  • 1 brown onion, thinly sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • 1 pack chilli lamb spice
  • 1½ Tbsp tomato paste
  • 400g chopped tomatoes
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1 capsicum, diced 1-2cm

RICE

  • 150g Japanese brown rice
  • 1 cup frozen corn
  • 1 tomato
  • ½-1 spring onion

LIME YOGHURT

  • ½ lime
  • 1 Tbsp coriander
  • 150g yoghurt
  • ½ tsp honey (optional)

TO SERVE

  • ½ lime, cut into wedges
  • 2 Tbsp finely chopped coriander

Steps

  1. Bring a medium pot of salted water to the boil. Prepare chilli and garnishing ingredients.
  2. Heat oil in a large fry-pan on high heat. Cook lamb for 3-4 minutes, until browned. Add onion, garlic, salt and carrot to pan and cook, stirring occasionally, for 3-4 minutes, breaking up as it cooks, until vegetables are soft and lamb is browned.
  3. Add chilli lamb spice and tomato paste to pan and cook for 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add tomatoes, stock, chilli flakes (if using) and capsicum. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low and cook for 12-15 minutes.
  4. Cook rice in pot of boiling water for about 13 minutes. Add corn and cook a further 1-2 minutes, until rice and corn are tender. Drain well and return to pot.
  5. While rice cooks, dice tomato 1cm and thinly slice spring onion. Once rice has finished cooking, add tomato and spring onion to pot, mix well to combine and season to taste.
  6. Zest and juice lime into a small bowl. Finely chop coriander and add to bowl with lime, along with yoghurt and honey (if using). Stir well to combine and season to taste.
  7. To serve, spoon rice into bowls. Top with lamb chilli con carne, dollop over lime yoghurt, squeeze over lime wedges and sprinkle over coriander.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1822 kj
435 kcal
Protein 34.1g
Carbohydrate 47.3g
Fat 11.2g