El chili con carne, a recipe Tex-Mex, it is ideal for filling burritos or enchiladas or put them on top of some nachos that you can also sprinkle with cheese and grill in the oven. If you don't like it so spicy you can add the spices at will.

In large stores and in the already very common Latin stores they sell ready-made spice mixtures that are very good, although you can always add a little more at will. Vegetables, lean meat and very little fat, which must be taken care of but creatively.

Chili burritos with chicken or turkey meat

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These Chicken or Turkey Chili Con Carne Burritos are perfect for weekend dinners. Learn how to prepare them with this recipe

Chili burritos with chicken or turkey meat

Burritos de chili con carne de pollo o pavo

Ángela

Kitchen: cuisine
Recipe type: meat

Total time:

Ingredients

1 package corn tortillas for burritos
1 jar (500g) cooked red or black beans
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cebolla
1 red pepper
500 g minced chicken or turkey meat
1 can of natural tomato (whole)
3-4 canned green chillies (optional)
½ glass of homemade tomato sauce
shawl

Spices:

1 spoon tip (or more to taste) cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon chili powder
(or half a teaspoon of burrito seasoning)
1 hoja de laurel
1 teaspoon ground cumin

Preparation

Wash the beans, drain them and reserve them. In a large frying pan, add the tablespoon of oil and brown the julienned onion and the diced pepper.
Next, we sauté the meat and when it has browned, we add the drained and slightly broken tinned tomatoes, the tomato sauce, the spices, the chopped chillies (optional) and the bay leaf.
Add salt and cook over low heat for about an hour, stirring from time to time and adding a little water if it becomes too dry.
When it takes 50 minutes, add the reserved beans, turn around and leave the remaining ten minutes over low heat.
5. Fill the previously heated corn cakes in a skillet (follow the manufacturer's instructions).

Notes

Note: You can add a little boiled white rice to chili con carne, it works really well.

Image: johnstons

Recetín

Chili burritos with chicken or turkey meat: complete and low-fat