Bekkie’s Healthy Chili

Chili is a wonderful food it sticks with you is easy to make and 1 cup is about 266 calories. It can be made and ready to eat in a little over an hour. This is my own recipe and I used it throughout my weight loss journey and after dinner, I was never hungry. You don’t have to be dieting to eat this chili it’s just good healthy food.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 pounds of hamburger (I like hamburger with some fat it tastes better)

3 green peppers (any color)

1 onion

2 cloves of garlic

1 teaspoon of salt

3 shakes from the bottle (or what you like) of paprika

parsley flakes or fresh (as much as you’d like)

2 to 3 tablespoons chili powder (or more, it’s up to you)

2 fresh tomatoes (I leave the skin on)

1, 28 ounce can finely chopped tomatoes

1 bay leaf

1 cup of water

1, 15 ounce can kidney beans

1, 15 ounce can black beans

1, 15 ounce can garbanzo beans

Let’s cook:

Put the hamburger in a non-stick dutch oven. Chop the green peppers, onion, and add. Chop the garlic very fine and add. Add the salt, paprika, and parsley flakes. Chop the tomatoes and set aside.

Cook on high stirring occasionally until almost all of the liquid disappears. (This should take no more than 15 minutes but don’t time it, watch the liquid and don’t leave it to burn.) Then add chili powder and stir until the mixture is coated with it.

Add the canned tomatoes with the liquid from the can. Add the fresh chopped tomatoes, water, the bay leaf, and stir.

Reduce heat by half, cover with a lid and cook for 45 minutes. Make sure the heat just boils the chili without burning it on the bottom. It should be gently boiling when you peek under the lid.

When 45 minutes is up, drain and rinse the kidney beans, black beans, and garbanzo beans and mix them in. I like to make a 3 bean chili but you can substitute any kind of beans you like or use all kidney beans.

Keeping the lid on, heat for another 20 minutes until the beans are hot. Because the skin was left on the fresh tomatoes you may see little pieces of the skin rolled up in the chili. Eating the skin is good for you.

Remove the bay leaf when it’s done. I like to have a piece of Safeway nut and grain bread (my favorite) with a tablespoon of butter on it with my 1 cup of chili. My whole meal, with 8 ounces of 1% milk is 566 calories and it’s healthy!

Enjoy! My chili will keep you full for hours your body will love it and it’ll give you plenty of energy for your bike rides. It keeps well in the fridge.

My finished photo doesn’t do it justice I’m not a food photographer. Lol! Have any questions or comments let me know.

Eating smart is living well.