Chili (Vegan)
A weeknight-friendly vegan built around fresh jalapenos, medium tomatoes and red kidney beans — roughly 75 minutes start to finish, and rated medium to make. You'll find the full ingredient list (with a scaler to change the servings), 7 steps of method, substitutions, and ideas for what to serve alongside.
You'll mainly reach for large pot and saucepan. At medium difficulty across 7 steps, it's manageable with a little attention. As written, every ingredient resolved to a plant source.
What you'll need
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Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: vegan — no meat, fish, dairy, egg or honey, based on every ingredient listed below.
Contains: none of the major allergens we track from the ingredients listed.
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How to make it
- Warm the olive oil in a large heavy pot over medium heat, then add the diced onion and a pinch of salt and cook for about 6 minutes until softened and translucent.
- Stir in the minced garlic, diced green bell pepper and finely chopped jalapenos and cook for another 4 minutes until fragrant and beginning to soften.
- Add the tomato paste, cumin, chili powder and smoked paprika and stir constantly for 1 to 2 minutes to toast the spices and deepen their flavour.
- Tip in the chopped tomatoes and the vegetable stock, scrape up anything stuck to the bottom, and bring the mixture to a gentle simmer.
- Drain and rinse all three beans, then add them along with the corn kernels and stir to combine.
- Simmer uncovered over low heat for 25 to 30 minutes, stirring now and then, until the chili has thickened and the flavours have melded; mash a few beans against the side of the pot if you want a thicker texture.
- Taste and adjust with salt and extra chili powder, then let it rest off the heat for 5 minutes before serving.
You'll use: Large pot · Saucepan
Tips & common questions
How long does Chili (Vegan) take to make?
About 75 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 7 steps and 16 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Chili (Vegan) vegan?
Every ingredient listed on this page resolved to a plant or mineral source in our ingredient ontology — no meat, fish, shellfish, dairy, egg or honey. Labels can still differ by brand, so check packaged items.
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Adapted recipe — rewritten in our own wording from an open-licensed community cookbook, not yet independently kitchen-tested by Consomee. How we source, test & correct recipes.
Chili (Vegan) is adapted by Consomee from the Wikibooks Cookbook, rewritten in our own wording and used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo: Vegan chili.jpeg (CC0) via Wikimedia Commons. We add the serving scaler, ingredient tools, timing and structure — how we source recipes.