Chilli con carne
By: Rachel Allen From: Rachel's Favourite Food...
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Chilli con carne
- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 1 hrs 30 mins
- Serves:
- 6
Rachel Allen's classic retro dish is a hearty meal that's well worth coming home for
Ingredients
- 2 large Onions
- 700g lean stewing beef, fat removed and cut into 1-2cm cubes
- 5 cloves Garlic, crushed
- 800g tinned chopped tomatoes
- 2 green peppers, sliced
- 3 green or red chillies, chopped, seeds left in if you like your chillies fiery
- 2 tsp ground Cumin
- 1 tinned red Kidney beans, 400g
- 1 tsp brown sugar
To serve
- 125ml Soured cream
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped
- 4 tbsp Cheddar cheese, grated
Method
Heat the olive oil in a casserole,or saucepan and fry the meat until it changes colour - about 5-7 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and stir for a minute or so before tipping in the tinned tomatoes,chopped chillies, peppers, and a good pinch of salt.
Cover the pan and simmer for about an hour, until the meat is tender and the liquid reduced to a thick sauce. If it gets too dry during cooking, pour in a little more water.
Add the cumin, kidney beans (and a little of the bean liquid,if you like)and the brown sugar. Simmer for a further 10 mins before serving with rice, a spoonful of sour cream, grated cheddar cheese and and coriander leaves as a garnish. For added spicy kick, serve this dish with hot chilli sauce.
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View all comments (7)Fantastic Receipe - so easy to follow and all my guests thought it was fab! Although i do have to say that it says use stewing beef cut into cubes which is quite odd - i used mince beef and it was much better
Didnt have any reference to the cumin in the recipe until the end,misprint i think,found it a tad bland,and had to add tomato puree,more cumin and sugar,maybe a piece of dark choclate should have been added at the end also,quite basic to be honest,if you are a newbie to cooking its fine,but for me was quite dissapointed considerating it was a Rachel Allen recipe!
excellent the only thing that puzzled me was that in the method it mentioned cumin however in the ingredients it is NOT mentioned. Very tastie
Lovely recipe i stuck to the recipe but my chillis were the thin long ones and were pretty hot, i cooled it down with yogurt and some coconut milk, and it was lovely, will be making it again.
Delicious! Would add more chillies though as it was very mild just using the amount as per the recipe. Also added in an extra tin of kidney beans....!!
Very nice, a late night supper with "long time no see " friends.
I tried this recipe for my family and it went down a storm. Easy to make and absolutely delicious.