Cheesie chili con carne recipe

Being on a diet doesn't mean you can not eat great meals. As you know I am following the Dukan diet and I love to eat allowed but tasty meals, among my favorite one is this delicious Cheesy chili con carne:

The recipe is so tasty and so simple, it severs one hungry one or two not so hungry people.

INGREDIENTS

• 250gr of lean beef mince
• two shallots
• two big mushrooms 
• two canned plum tomatos 
• garlic powder
• sal
• chili powder 
• fat free formage cheese
• optional cooking spray 

INSTRUCTIONS

Get you meat, make sure it is lean, less than 10% fat otherwise it would be too greasy

Chop your shallots in small pieces, not too small or it would disappear an you wanna taste them

   

Then the same thing with the mushrooms, remember not too small, I use two for the flavor but feel free to add more if you fancy 

I normally I add some cooking spray, just two touches which the package claims is 2 cal., however you can skip this step if you wanna keep the rules strictly

Add the shallots first let them get toasted: just a BIT or they will get burn, remember we are not using oil, and even with the cooking spray they will be burn in no time. Then Add the meat. The meat goes plain into the pan do not add anything to it will have time to add stuff later. Cook the two things together  until the meat gets pinkie.

Then add the mushrooms and keep cooking it till they are almost done. how do you how they are almost done? the white mushrooms change to beige color (which for guys it is light brown). It is at this point that you should add a bit of salt, the garlic powder  and chili to taste. I normally add a lot of garlic powder, beware if you wanna kis someone and little chili, but that is just me.

The final step is to add the plum tomatos, I normally add two. You can use natural or canned ones I used the canned ones for confort but make sure if you do that they do not have anything added to them. 

Smash the tomatos with the spatula, give a five minutes a medium heat and you are good to go. (Some times needs a bit of water if it is too dry.)

Finally, As I am not gonna eat any rice with it and on itself the chili con carne seem very ... how can I say this?... Alone. I set the plate with some fat free formage frais on the botton and the chili con carne on top of it. The contrast is absolutely fabulous and becomes a light gourmet dish.

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ENJOY ;)