Loaded Beef & Bacon Chili

By Lauren_Jorgensen

Ingredients

• Coconut/olive oil- for cooking veggies
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 8-10 slices of bacon – or more if desired!
• 1 can diced tomatoes- organic (just tomatoes- look at ingredients)
• 1 can crushed tomatoes- same as above
• 2 package mushroom- quartered into chunks
• 3-4 large carrots- coined
• 3 stalks celery – chopped
• 1 large yellow onion- thickly diced
• 3 zucchini- diced into chunks
• 2 red pepper- chopped
• 6 cloves garlic – minced
• 1 tbsp ground smoked chipotle chilies
• loads of chili powder – add and taste – repeat (to reach desired flavour and colour richness)
• fresh cilantro- chopped for garnish

Details

Adapted from paleodish.com

Preparation

Step 1

Brown the ground beef, on medium heat in a frying pan- set aside

In the meantime, bake the bacon in the oven at 325 degrees, until fully cooked – set aside to cool, then break into chunks

In a separate dutch oven (large), sautee all the veggies in coconut/olive oil on medium heat, until cooked (softened)

Drain most of the liquid from the veggies, as you don’t want it too watered down

Then take the ground beef and bacon pieces and add both to the veggies in the dutch oven

Next, add in both cans of tomatoes and stir throughly

Then, sprinkle in desired amounts of spices (taste test as you go – we put in lots as that is the way we prefer it!

Let cook on low-medium heat- stirring occasionally

Dish and garnish with fresh cilantro

Enjoy!