Beef Chilli Con Carne with Rice and Corn Chips

Beef Chilli Con Carne with Rice and Corn Chips

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, June 10, 2018.

Ingredients

Rice

  • 1½ cups jasmine rice
  • 2¼ cups water

Chilli

  • 1 brown onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 600g beef mince
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 Tbsp beef chilli spice mix
  • 2 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 can chilli beans
  • 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • ½ cup beef stock
  • ½ bag baby spinach

To Serve

  • 1 tomato
  • 2 Tbsp coriander
  • 125g sour cream
  • 2-3 Tbsp sweet chilli sauce
  • Pinch of chilli flakes (optional, adults)
  • 150g corn chips (optional)

Steps

  1. Combine rice, water and a pinch of salt in a pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 12 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  2. Finely dice onion and grate carrot. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pot on high heat. Cook onion, carrot and beef mince with salt for about 5 minutes breaking mince up until browned. Add beef chilli spice mix and garlic to pot and cook a further 1 minute until fragrant.
  3. Add chilli beans, canned tomatoes and stock to pot and bring to a low simmer. Simmer for about 10 minutes until sauce has thickened.
  4. Roughly chop spinach and add to chilli. Cook for 2 minutes until wilted. Season to taste.
  5. While chilli cooks, dice tomato 1cm and roughly chop coriander leaves and stalks.
  6. To serve, divide ¾ cup cooked rice between bowls and top with chilli con carne, a sprinkle of tomato and coriander and a dollop of sour cream and sweet chilli sauce, and a pinch of chilli flakes (if using). Serve corn chips on the side (if using).

Nutritional Information

Energy 2643 kj
632 kcal
Protein 33.0g
Carbohydrate 58.5g
Fat 29.2g