MC MACROCHEF Train Kit Plan Start All recipes

Beef Chili

SERVES 4 · 50 MIN · ONE POT

Beef Chili
Make
Portion kcal
Coming to the App Store

The kitchen tools are part of MacroChef Plus

Meal planner, calorie tracker, the grocery list that adds up what your meals share, portion scaling and cook mode — plus every recipe, every method and every gram weight.

How Plus works
545
CALORIES
50g
PROTEIN
39g
CARBS
21g
FAT

Macros are for one serving as written. Make gives you more servings of the same size; Portion resizes one serving and moves the macros with it.

Ingredients

  • 800g (1.75 lb) ground beef, 90% lean
  • 400g (2 cups) kidney beans, drained
  • 400g (1.5 cups) passata
  • 60g (1/4 cup) tomato paste
  • 150g (1 medium) onion, diced
  • 150g (1 medium) bell pepper, diced
  • 150g (1 cup) sweetcorn
  • 12g (4 cloves) garlic, minced
  • 3 tbsp chilli powder, 1 tbsp cumin, 2 tsp smoked paprika, 1 tsp oregano
  • 1.5 tsp salt, 1 tsp cocoa powder; 400ml / 1.75 cups beef stock

10 ingredients, each with the gram weight the macros above were computed from.

Method

  1. Brown the beef in a dry pot over high heat without stirring for the first 3 min. Let one side crust properly before you break it up.
  2. Break it up, finish browning, then tip off any fat beyond a tablespoon.
  3. Add the onion and pepper and cook 6 min in the beef fat.
  4. Add the garlic and all the dry spices and cook 90 seconds. Dry spices need fat and heat, not liquid.
  5. Stir in the tomato paste and the cocoa powder and cook 2 min. The cocoa is not for chocolate flavour - it deepens the colour and rounds off the acidity.
  6. Add the passata, stock and salt, bring to a simmer.
  7. Simmer uncovered 30 min, stirring now and then, until a spoon dragged across the base leaves a track.
  8. Add the beans and corn for the last 10 min. Beans in from the start turn to mush.
Step 1 of 8 Coming to the App Store

Every recipe is part of MacroChef Plus

One subscription opens all 111 recipes, every method and every gram weight, plus the meal planner, calorie tracker, grocery list, portion scaling and cook mode. Cancel any time.

MacroChef Plus is bought in the iPhone app, which is on its way to the App Store. The free week and the subscription are handled by the App Store, so they are cancelled there too.

How Plus works

Tip: the teaspoon of cocoa. It disappears completely and it is the single thing that makes a weeknight chilli taste like it simmered all afternoon.

EquipmentLarge pot

KitLarge pot

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Links to equipment are affiliate links - they cost you nothing extra and no recipe was chosen or written to sell anything.

KeepsFridge 4 days, freezer 3 months. This is the classic day-two dish.

More like this

Browse every recipe and build a grocery list

Macros are computed from the raw ingredient weights above using USDA FoodData Central reference values. Brands vary, so treat them as close estimates rather than lab figures. Nothing here is medical or dietary advice.