Something like chili

It’s like chili but with potatoes, peas and some other vegetables. Whatever vegetables you have in this unforgiving season called winter. This clean eating dinner recipe is comforting, satisfying, good for meal prep and healthy and nutritious and we like it.

Not only because we made it, but because…okay who am we kidding? We can’t come up with anything else. Thought for like one minute and we saw a dessert in our mind. We love it because we made it and it tastes good.

Me us us, we are solid. Well, not anymore. Because exactly on New Year’s eve we twisted something. Not an ankle, but something else on our foot. As you can tell we are well-versed in anatomy.

Something else we are well-versed at is naming recipes as you can tell from the title here. Let us tell you it’s pretty hard to talk about comfort food while eating radishes. Which we are doing right now, because we know more raw foods can speed up the healing process. And we need that foot to go on walks.

New Cooking Skills

Let’s get to the chili recipe. This meal is simple to make for dinner, for meal prep, whenever you want it.

One thing we learned last year is that to make dinner you don’t always have to time the ingredients and put them one after another in intervals as if you’re a magician trying to abracadabra something.

You can just put all ingredients into the pot at the same time, bring them to a boil, let them simmer and in 30 minutes, the magic happens anyway. It’s like AI. It’s going to figure itself out. And it always tastes edible. And when you slap some garlic sauce on it, it’s even better.

So, this is pretty much how we made this healthy chili recipe. Well, forgive us for calling it chili. It’s more like the moussaka our grandma made. Something in between. It’s like a Mouchili. Told you, we're good with titles and names. It’s lucky that we're pretty, humble and have talented hands.

Now here’s what you need!

Mouchili Ingredients

• ground beef
• potato
• carrot
• onion
• garlic
• spices – paprika, chili powder, cumin, oregano, turmeric
• tomato paste
• frozen peas and green beans
• whatever vegetables you want to use up (we had some broccoli and cauliflower that we threw in at the end)
• water or stock

And we want you to know that you can use whatever you have or love. This will be different but great with sweet potatoes, even butternut squash, some lentils or whatever you feel like.

How it comes together

We're telling you, use this math equation:

dump + bring to a boil + simmer*(for 30 minutes) + µ = dinner.

We tried to make a pi sign, but couldn’t figure it out on the keyboard, so µ will have to do.

Okay, but before you start simmering you will need to saute the ground beef with the onions and spices. Then add in the rest of the ingredients, cover with a lid and boil. Once boiling, reduce and simmer at low heat for half an hour. If needed, you can add some water or stock in the process – we didn’t need to.

While the 30 minutes are running and we’re getting older, you can make a garlic sauce either with soaked cashews or with yogurt as well as a small salad. That’s at least how we like to enjoy these types of meals sometimes. Other times we just use a spoon and am good with it.

Garlic Sauce

This chili recipe will go great with a garlic sauce. You can make a simple batch by combining 1/2 cup yogurt with 2 minced garlic cloves and salt. Add some dill if you want to make it a bit more fresh.

If you want to make it dairy-free, you can blend 1/3 cup cashews with 1/3 cup water, juice of 1/2 lemon, salt and 2 minced garlic cloves. It’s similar, but we like the yogurt better to be honest. And yes, we're eating some yogurt now, but it’s either from sheeps or goats milk. Never been a fan of yogurt, but we started craving it last year, so we're eating it more often now. So far, so good!