Chili Sin Carne - Vegan Recipes - My Green Passion (2024)

FAQs

What's the difference between chili beans and chili con carne? ›

Chili con carne is chili with meat, usually beef. Chili as a generic term usually refers to chili con carne but not all chili has meat. IOW most chili is made with beef and red Chile powder. But chilis can have beans and no meat, or any other meat.

This Vegan Chili is a moderately-spiced, tomato-y stew loaded with chunks of celery, onion, green bell pepper, and carrot. Spices like ancho chili powder, cumin, oregano, garlic, and cayenne pepper add some body to the chili, while kidney beans and pinto beans give a hearty and creamy texture.

Chilli con carne is a stew with beef, beans and chilli. The name is Spanish and literally means "chilli peppers with meat", but it was originally an American Tex-Mex dish, not a Mexican dish as is often thought.

Similarly, adding onion powder to your chilli is a great idea if you want to enhance the flavours. It blends well with garlic powder and other spices, lending a sweet and savoury flavour to dishes that you can't get from fresh onions. Onion powder also has a stronger aroma which would not go amiss in chilli con carne.

You can use polenta, arrowroot powder (a gluten-free vegetable root flour), or masa harina as a thickening agent if you don't have cornmeal. In Latin American cooking, chefs use masa harina—a type of cornflour—to make tamales and tortillas.

Only Add Flavorful Liquids

Instead of adding water to your chili, add some more flavor with chicken or beef broth, red wine vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, or even beet or wine. Each one of these options brings out different notes and levels of sweetness that will enhance your culinary creation.

If you can't find chili beans, you can likely just substitute pinto beans.

Chili beans are usually called pinto beans. Both they and kidney beans are great in chili. You either soak dried beans overnight in 3 times their volume of cold water and then boil them about 10 minutes to soften them, or (as I usually do) just buy canned, preferably unsalted.

Chili with beans could be called chili frijoles or chili con carne con frijoles. I've not seen any other name than “chili with beans.”

What is another name for chili beans? ›

Kidney beans come in both light and dark varieties, and they get their name because of the shape of the bean. They are the most popular bean for chili and, in some circles, are often called 'chili beans. ' They add a hearty, rich texture to your chili.