Leftover Chilli Con Carne Recipes

What’s one of your favourite leftover chilli con carne recipes? Have you even got a favourite recipe for chilli con carne? What goes well with leftover chilli con carne? What to have with leftover chilli con carne instead of rice? So many questions! Hopefully, we can help you out. Please read on for lots of leftover chilli ideas.

Everyone loves a bit of rice, but variety is the spice of life and spice is what we’re all about here at Gran Luchito. So we’ve put together a few ideas to get you thinking outside the box. If there’s one thing our Chipotle Paste works well in, it’s a recipe for chilli con carne. So if you haven’t tried it, add some to your next batch and taste the difference for yourself. It’s not like the standard chilli con carne mix.

So go on, feast your eyes below and click to discover the ideas in full.

First on our list is a chilli con carne burrito. What better way to use leftover chilli than loaded up in a Burrito Wrap with your favourite toppings?

In this recipe, we share a new chilli con carne recipe using our Cantina Beans and the result is delicious!

Peppers work amazingly well with chilli con carne. Once you’ve made your best chilli and got out the leftovers, mix it with some rice and spoon it into the peppers before sprinkling with a little cheese and baking in the oven.

The results speak for themselves.

Delicious crumbly pastry stuffed full of tasty chilli con carne.

A great way to take your leftover chilli to a picnic, and perfect for party snacks, or pre-dinner appetisers.

Another fantastic one of our ideas is to use up leftover chilli. Get yourself some Soft Taco Wraps, eggs, guacamole and tomatoes and enjoy a breakfast or brunch that’ll set you up for the rest of the day.

The most important element here is to nail your fried egg to perfection!

Aahh Nachos.. one of life’s many pleasures. These are even more exciting because they are Chilli Beef Nachos! Lightly Salted Tortilla Chips and Serrano Chillies are also needed for these. Pair the leftover chilli with homemade salsa and guacamole and make it the ultimate in Tex-Mex dishes. Go on, go ahead and try this next-level leftover chilli version! It’s the bees knees! We recommend serving them with a side of Frijoles for extra dunking, and here is our perfect guacamole recipe.

First up for our leftover chilli con carne recipes is this one. What bread to serve with chilli con carne? How about a bun! Chilli dogs are a classic American dish that we knew would work really well, given the Gran Luchito treatment. We used our Chipotle Paste to make a rich and smoky chilli con carne, and spooned it onto meaty good quality sausages in a bun, topped with grated cheddar, diced onion, coriander and Serrano Green Chillies. One for the meat-lovers for sure! 

Not much explanation or justification is needed here. You can tell just by looking at it that chips are a worthy substitute for rice. This leftover chilli recipe makes for a great sharing dish as well. Just make sure it’s big enough!