Hello all you #hivers out there it's time for some home cooking, today it's "chili con carne". We consider this a Mexican dish but after scanning the tinternet I found that it is a dish of unknown origin, it seems the best guess is that it is a Mexican fusion dish developed by immigrant's living in America and it is a mix of the two nations, so it's more Tex-Mex.
Chili con carne, my fave!
Today's recipe was as many at the moment a challenge, here in the provinces we are struggling to find ingredients due to the lock down so this is a little stripped down from my usual recipe.
To get started 24 hours before planning to cook I soaked 1 large cup of dried Red Kidney beans in water, normally for the ease of it I use tinned beans, next day we are ready to cook.
Your list of ingredients are, 1kg lean minced beef, 3 sweet peppers, 2 large onions, 3 cloves of garlic crushed, red kidney beans and 1 pint of sieved tomato passata, plus spices and herbs which I will cover as we proceed.
First fry finely sliced onions until lightly browned.
Add garlic and peppers, cook till softened then remove from heat.
In a second pan brown the mince.
Once browned off add 2 teaspoons of chili powder, 1 of cayenne pepper and 1 of smoked paprika, cook for a couple of minutes to infuse the meat with the spices.
Add the beans and top up with water or light beef stock.
Mix well then cover with lid and simmer gently for 20 minutes to soften meat and beans, once this is done add previously cooked onions garlic and peppers mix in then add the tomato passata sauce.
Cook over a gentle heat for a further 20 minutes to thicken.
Meanwhile cook the rice, once drained you are ready to serve.
There you have it, today's recipe would serve 4 to 6 depending on how hungry you are. Hope you enjoy this spicy delight, until we meet again stay safe folks!
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Cool thanks very much!