Chilli recipie as requested
Slow oven cooked chilli recipe:
2x 500g packets minced beef
A lug of olive oil
2x diced white onion
x2 garlic cloves (crushed)
Good heaped tablespoon cumin
1x Oxo cube
1x chicken stock (I use Knorr)
1x beef stock (I use Knorr)
2x tins chopped tomato's
2-3 table spoon tomato paste
1/2 to 3/4 bottle Merlot
1x tin red kidney beans
x2 table spoon Worcestershire sauce
A good shake of balsamic vinegar
Dash of red wine vinegar
4 squares of 70+% cocoa dark chocolate
x2 tea spoons sugar
Plenty black pepper
A couple pinches of salt.
For spice I add:
Good shake crushed Jalapeno’s
1x tea spoon hot paprika
Good shake hot chilli powder
Good shake crushed chilli's
As many chopped chilli's as you like (I add about 3)
Brown meat off first using olive oil and a pinch of salt (a good lug will do) – add meat (and juices) to a big pot.
Obviously you can trim / add to the spice to taste, my other half doesn't have as high tolerance for spice as I do so I tone it down from the above for her.
Some of the ingredients above can disappear, I use them because I have them available (red wine vinegar can go, chicken stock can go, use any red wine you have, and the chocolate just makes it silkier (the sugar takes the acidity out of the tomato’s) – I’ve tried and tested the above and it works well for us, and I sometimes use one red and one white onion also.
Stick the pot in the oven at 160 C for as long as you can (over 3 hours), stirring every 45min to an hour or so. If it needs to reduce for the final hour take the lid of the pot, but stirr every 20min or so.
Like all good home cooked chilli, this is always better left in the fridge overnight and re-heated the next day, but still is awesome that evening - I get a load of mates round, make a massive bowl of rice, massive platter of nacho's (layer nacho's, then grated cheddar, then repeat till you run out of nacho's, cover the top in cheddar and mozzarella, bake for 10min on high, then cover in salsa, jalapeno’s and serve with guacamole and soured cream as a side)
Pudding – Pah, if you can manage a pudding after that then you are on your own!
