This is my version of Chicken Chilli Con Carne – it has no beans in it! Am just not a fan of beans. This recipe makes A LOT (36 cups)! So if you are thinking of cooking it up for your family, I would halve it. Also if you only have a small slow cooker, you will need to reduce the quantities as this quantity filled mine.
The kids loved the Chicken Chilli Con Carne Cups, the littlest ones had two with salad and the older ones had three.
Slow Cooker Chicken Chilli Con Carne Cups
Ingredients:
- 1kg chicken mince
- 2 medium brown onions, finely chopped
- 2 small red capsicums
- 2 small green capsicums
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cumin
- 1 1/2 tablespoons ground coriander
- 3 x 400g cans diced tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon diced chilli (if it were just for me, I would at least double it, as it is pretty mild.)
- 9 sheets puff pastry
- 100 grams grated tasty cheese
- 100 grams sour cream
Method:
1. Finely dice the onions and capsicums.
2. Add the chicken mince to the slow cooker.
3. Add the onions and capsicums.
4. Crush garlic into the slow cooker, add dry herbs and chilli.
5. Add tinned tomatoes and stir to combine the mixture.
6. Cook on high for 4 – 5 hours. About half way through, mix the mixture and break up any clumps of chicken.
7. About 15 minutes before the Slow Cooker Chicken Chilli Con Carne is ready, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and place pastry on the bench to defrost.
8. Once defrosted, cut pastry sheets into quarters.
9. Spray muffin tins with cooking spray.
10. Place squares into trays. Try to avoid having pastry touching, fold it up if you need to. They cook better if the pastry isn’t touching (I learnt that when cooking them!).
11. Give the chicken mixture another good mix and then scoop chicken mix into the pastry cases. Be sure to drain off excess liquid from the spoon, before filling the pastry.
12. Sprinkle with tasty cheese and place in the oven to bake for 20 minutes or until golden around the edges.
13. Serve with a dash of sour cream!
- 1kg chicken mince
- 2 medium brown onions, finely chopped
- 2 small red capsicums
- 2 small green capsicums
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1½ tablespoons ground cumin
- 1½ tablespoons ground coriander
- 3 x 400g cans diced tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon diced chilli (if it were just for me, I would at least double it, as it is pretty mild.)
- 9 sheets puff pastry
- 100 grams grated tasty cheese
- 100 grams sour cream
- Finely dice the onions and capsicums.
- Add the chicken mince to the slow cooker.
- Add the onions and capsicums.
- Crush garlic into the slow cooker, add dry herbs and chilli.
- Add tinned tomatoes and stir to combine the mixture.
- Cook on high for 4 - 5 hours. About half way through, mix the mixture and break up any clumps of chicken.
- About 15 minutes before the Slow Cooker Chicken Chilli Con Carne is ready, preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and place pastry on the bench to defrost.
- Once defrosted, cut pastry sheets into quarters.
- Spray muffin tins with cooking spray.
- Place squares into trays. Try to avoid having pastry touching, fold it up if you need to. They cook better if the pastry isn’t touching (I learnt that when cooking them!).
- Give the chicken mixture another good mix and then scoop chicken mix into the pastry cases. Be sure to drain off excess liquid from the spoon, before filling the pastry.
- Sprinkle with tasty cheese and place in the oven to bake for 20 minutes or until golden around the edges.
- Serve with a dash of sour cream! Makes 36 cups.
Free Menu Planner Update
You can find my latest monthly menu plan here in this recent post.
I use the Planning With Kids Menu Planner App to produce my menu plans. The blog does have a free menu planner that you can use if you do not have an iPhone.
Thanks to the excellent help of Lara, the free menu planner on the blog has been updated. It now contains over 200 recipes. You can see the full list of recipes in the planner here – Planning With Kids Free Menu Planner Recipes. This file is a Google Doc and will open up in a new tab in your browser. It contains two spreadsheets one with recipes sorted in alphabetical order and the second has the recipes ordered by category.
This is the last update for the menu planner on the blog. Updating both the blog menu planner and the app menu planner is not possible for me with current time constraints. The menu planner covers off most basic family meals and will continue to be accesible as it is now.
Thank you for reading the blog – Nic!