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Beef Chilli with Zingy Avocado Salsa & Quinoa
You'll love our flavourful chilli, made with juicy British beef. You'll prep everything in a quick 10 mins, then simmer away with cumin, cinnamon and fresh red chillis. Dish up with fluffy quinoa and your homemade avocado lime salsa.
High protein
1/3 daily fibre
4 of 5 a day
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 1 romano pepper
- 280g beef mince (british beef mince (10% fat))
- 1 chilli
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 onion
- 80g quinoa (Quinoa 100%)
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 1 tbsp ground cumin (use half)
- 110g baby tomatoes
- 1 avocado
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
Nutritional Information
Calories: 681
Protein: 41g
Carbs: 45g
Fat: 38g
Ingredients
- 1 handful of fresh coriander (use half)
- 1 romano pepper (use half)
- 0.5 tsp ground cinnamon (use half)
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 chilli (use half)
- 1 avocado (use half)
- 1 onion (use half)
- 110g baby tomatoes (use half)
- 1 unwaxed lime (use half)
- 1 tbsp ground cumin (use a quarter)
- 80g quinoa (use half) (Quinoa 100%)
- 140g beef mince (british beef mince (10% fat))
- 200g passata (use half) (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 673
Protein: 40g
Carbs: 46g
Fat: 37g
Beef Chilli with Zingy Avocado Salsa & Quinoa
You'll love our flavourful chilli, made with juicy British beef. You'll prep everything in a quick 10 mins, then simmer away with cumin, cinnamon and fresh red chillis. Dish up with fluffy quinoa and your homemade avocado lime salsa.
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Pull out 2 medium saucepans, a medium bowl, a measuring jug & a sieve
Get started
- Roughly dice the onion and pepper. Finely chop or crush the garlic
- Heat a medium saucepan with 1 tsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the beef, onion and pepper and cook for 5 mins, breaking up the mince with a wooden spoon, until golden brown. Season with salt and pepper
Combine the flavours
- Meanwhile, deseed and finely chop the chilli
- Add the garlic, cinnamon, the half pack of cumin and half the chilli (or to taste) to the beef pan. Cook for 2 mins
Get your simmer on & cook the quinoa
- Add the passata and 100ml hot water (50ml for 1 person) to the beef pan. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 12-15 mins, until slightly thickened
- Meanwhile, bring the other medium saucepan filled with hot salted water to a boil
- Once boiling, add the quinoa and boil for 13-14 mins, until cooked, then drain
Make the avocado salsa
- Halve the lime. Roughly chop the tomatoes and coriander. Dice the avocado into 1cm chunks
- In the medium bowl, combine the tomatoes, avocado, half the coriander and the juice from half the lime. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper and mix
Plate up
- Share the beef chilli between bowls, with the quinoa and avocado salsa alongside
- Garnish with the remaining chilli (or to taste), coriander and lime, cut into wedges
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