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Hearty vegan chili recipe with beans. This healthy chili sin carne is perfect for lunch, meal prep or dinner. The recipe is low-fat and gluten-free. You can serve this delicious comfort meal with rice, potatoes, pasta or flatbread.
Vegan Chili – my favorite comfort food!
How amazing is chili? I love comfort food like chili and curry very much since it’s hearty, healthy, and delicious. This vegan chili recipe is easy to make and can be served with rice, potatoes, pasta or flatbread. My chili sin carne (chili without meat) is packed with healthy veggies and is full of flavor.
I often prepare a huge pot of chili as my boyfriend can’t get enough of it, so we often end up eating chili twice a week.
Eating Chili is healthy
Did you know that eating hot red chili peppers may help us live longer? “A study of more than 16,000 people in the United States revealed that individuals who consumed red chili peppers had a lower risk of death from all causes over an average of 18 years than those who did not eat the spicy food.” How amazing is that?
This vegan chili recipe contains hot red chili peppers which makes it a healthy and delicious comfort meal.
This vegan chili con carne recipe is:
- Gluten-free
- Low in fat
- Dairy-free
- Healthy
- Spicy
- Flavorful
- An amazing comfort food
- Great for meal prep
How To Make Chili Sin Carne?
The recipe is very easy to make with simple ingredients. Watch the video below to see the easy instruction steps.
You can make this chili with kidney beans, white beans, pinto beans or black beans. I often use two cups of kidney beans and 2 cups of white beans but you can use one cup of each, it’s totally up to you. You can sprinkle some fresh cilantro or parsley on top which will add even more flavor to this vegan chili con carne.
Perfect for meal prep
This vegan chili recipe is also great for meal prep. Here is a meal prep idea which you might like. I bought the glass containers on Amazon.
Easy to make recipe
This vegan chili recipe doesn’t require any fancy ingredients. It took me about 40 minutes from start to finish. I would recommend however to let the chili simmer for more than 30 minutes, as is will be even more flavorful the longer it cooks.
Please leave a comment and rating below if you try out this recipe. Also, don’t forget to tag me in your Instagram or Facebook post with @elavegan and #elavegan because I would love to see it. 🙂
Vegan chili recipe
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 4 cloves of garlic finely minced
- 1 green pepper chopped
- 1 small/medium carrot grated
- 5-6 medium (560 g) diced fresh tomatoes or use canned ones (20 oz)
- 5-6 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 cups water or vegetable broth
- 4 cups canned beans e.g. kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, white beans, or 1 cup of each
- 2 tsp coconut sugar or sub brown sugar or any other sweetener like maple syrup
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3/4 tsp salt or less if you use vegetable broth
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp hot chili powder
- 1-2 hot red chili peppers (I used 1, my boyfriend prefers 2)
- 2 tsp oil of choice for frying
Instructions
- Watch the video (scroll down a bit) to see all instruction steps.
- In a large pan or pot over medium heat, add in the oil. Sauté the onion and pepper for about 5 minutes, add the garlic and sauté for an additional 1-2 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Mix in the tomatoes and sauté for another 3 to 5 minutes.
- Now add all remaining ingredients, increase the heat and simmer for about 30 minutes or longer, stirring occasionally. Add more water or vegetable broth if the chili gets too thick.
- Serve with rice, pasta, potatoes or flatbread. Garnish with fresh cilantro or parsley.
Video
Notes
- Recipe serves 4. Nutrition facts are for one serving.
- If you love chili, definitely also check out my Vegan Chili Cheese Fries recipe.
Nutrition
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I love how easy your recipes are as I always have all ingridents on hand this is perfect for meal prep and busy days to feed my family a easy healthy nutritious meal so thank you ! Xo
Thank you very much Kirsten, I love easy and healthy meals. Let me know if you ever try it out. Enjoy your weekend 🙂
Looks super tasty Ela! I can’t go through the day without adding chilies into my dishes, I even use crushed chilies in my sandwiches! Love these spicy beauties, so good news about living longer! 😉
Beautiful pictures, as always, and it looks super tasty! I’m definitely trying this with beans! Pinned of course! x
Hello Anna, thank you so much my dear! You are so right, chili peppers are amazing, we buy them regularly and I even dry them (when we have too many) and make chili powder. So tasty and good for us. Thanks for pinning, you are a sweetheart! 🙂
I looooove LOVE this recipe!! Wow So and It looks PERFECT AND yummy! Hehe… I think I have all ingridents for tonigh. I this is perfect for this new healthy lifestyle my family is eating. I’ll tag you on Instagram when I make it! ????????❤️.. Thanks!
Yay that’s awesome! I can’t wait to hear how it turned out 🙂
I am not lying when I say that this was one of the best chili recipe’s that I have ever made. The flavor is spot on and goes perfectly well with a steamed sweet potato and side of chopped romaine <3
Thank you so much for the amazing feedback Amy! I am really happy that you like my recipe. Steamed sweet potato and romaine sounds like the perfect addition to this chili 🙂
I love a good chili recipe. This sounds so comforting and delicious, Ela!
Thank you very much Nisha, how amazing is a good chili 😀
Well hello gorgeous! Isn’t this the most nourishing and delicious bowl ever! I love it. Thanks for sharing the recipe my love <3
Hello beautiful and thanks a lot for stopping by. 🙂 Glad you love chili as much as I do ❤️
THIS CHILI, YOU GUYS! As a new vegan I feel SO lucky to have found Ela`s recipes, theyre simple to make and so delicious! I tried to curry and its awesome, but this chili, I could have this chili every single day (and I just might do that).
Thanks you Ela! <3
Wow, I am speechless! Thanks so much for this awesome feedback Marian! Makes me so happy that you enjoyed my vegan chili. I made it today as well because my boyfriend loves it so much 🙂 ????
Ela! I did not know hot chili peppers can support a longer life! Fascinating. I love that you add sugar in this recipe, that is like something my grandmother used to do – she was always tossing brown sugar into tomato dishes..You and she must know secrets..Thank you for this comforting recipe! Dee xx
Thank you very much, Dee! Yes, isn’t it fascinating that some food can make us healthy and some food makes us really sick? I really love adding some sweetness to savory recipes, especially when tomatoes are involved. Makes it taste so much better. Have a great new week 🙂
Thankyou so much for sharing… just a little confused- when it says add garlic and sauté which ingredients make up the saute?
Omg ahaha.. I realise how I misread the saute part – its a verb????????! I just woke up ahaha
Haha, don’t worry 😀 I hope you will like my recipe 🙂
You and your super delicious, easy and healthy recipies are life!! You inspire me to be healthy and to eat simple delicious food !! Specially this one is super yumm ..Looking forward to try more recipies ????????
Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback, Vaishali!! Your comment made my day ???? Lots of love ????
This recipe reminds of my holiday in Northern India. This dish is called Rajmah Chawal. I really like the meal prep containers. Are they made of glass? Does the kidney bean gravy soul over into the other compartments?
Please could you share the brand name or link.
Thanks, Nisha! Yes, they are made of glass and I bought them on Amazon. I will include the link to the blog post now.
I normally don’t fill them with so much liquid and haven’t had problems with leaking yet. But yes, if you use a lot of liquid and shake the box or turn it upside down it will definitely leak. Hope this helps. 🙂
Ciao Ela! I just made this with 3cups red kidney beans and 11/2 of favabeans and 2 hot chilli peppers and ohmygosh my mouth is on fire ha ha. I normally dont take chili but I am slowly pushing myself to and this is good ha ha. Thank you Ela!☘
I will tag you on insta so you see my big wooden sharing bowl with this awesome awesome out of my comfort zone comfort meal????
So glad you liked my recipe!! I can’t wait to see your photo on Instagram. Please use the hashtag #elavegan so that I don’t miss it. 🙂
I made this chili sin carne for my family, who are very old school and dosn’t get the whole “vegan thing”, but they LOVED it – and so did I! Thanks for your amazing recipes. Lots of love ❤️
So glad you liked my chili recipe! Thanks for your feedback, Thea. ❤️
This is going to be a go to recipe for sure. Super delicious and easy to make.
Wonderful! Thanks a lot for your feedback, Melanie. 🙂
I love that you use a grated carrot in your chilli for extra nutrients and this looks really economical as well. Can’t wIt to make this!
I hope you will love the recipe, Ray! 🙂
I cooked this chilli at least 6-7 times already and it became one of my staple dishes that never fails me! It’s SO good. Thanks Ela x
Yay! I am so glad you love this recipe, Kara. 🙂