What's your best chilli recipe?

**stek** · 2 March 2016, 18:08

I stick oxo cubes in mine!

**Dactylion** · 2 March 2016, 18:23

Ingredients:
xxx of Mince (as much as you want but more is better*)
quite a few onions (not too much - you need loads more meat than onion)
quite a lot of garlic (fresh, from a jar, dried or whatever)
Tins of tomato (Chopped, whole whatever)
Cartons of tomato liquid/puree (whatever)
quite a lot of chilli
Any sort of chilli....
Jars (minced)
Fresh
Dried
& any mixture/combination
Some kidney beans
Cans, Dried etc etc - it doesn't matter
(Obviously dried you need to soak and boil etc first so tins is easiest)
Some oil to fry (just about anything from Veg Oil to butter - it's up to you)

You can have pretty well as much Kidney beans as you want, You could have more beans than mince or just a few beans.... all up to you.

Equipment:
A big enough saucepan to fit everything in.
A decent knife (plus cutting board etc)
Any sort of cooking hob
Something to stir with

Method:
Warm up some oil to fry stuff
Chop up all your onions
and all your garlic (if required)
chuck a handfull of chopped onions and some garlic into pan
Fry gently until softened and begining to brown slightly
Chuck in mince to fry almost browning...
NB If loads of mince don't over load the pan... it needs to fry not boil at this stage.
Take out fried mince (and repeat until all cooked if you are doing loads)
in the same pan
chuck in all remaining chopped onion and garlic and fry off
chuck in a few handfulls of whatever chilli you have and fry off

You should now have:
A load of browned off mince
A load of softly fried onion, garlic tinged with chilli

chuck it all into the pan on a lowish heat.

Chuck in as much chilli as you want
chuck in some worcester sauce, extra chilli sause etc
chuck in a load of the tomato (tins, puree etc etc)

increase heat and bring to a boil
turn down heat and let is simmer
then let is simmer some more
then let is simmer some more
taste and add more chilli if needed
then let is simmer some more
add more liquid if needed (water or more tomato)
chuck in some red wine if you have some knocking about
then let is simmer some more
switch it off, cover pan with a lid
goto bed and forget about it
next day (or evening - it doesn't need to be immediately)
get it going again
then let is simmer some more

finally when you want to eat it

chuck in whatever kidney beans you want
then let is simmer some more
taste it and add more chilli or liquid as required

dish it up (with rice, jacket potato, nacho, slice of bread or whatever)

anything you don't eat - chuck into portion sized containers and freeze

defrost and reheat as required.

Jobs a goodun!!

**stek** · 2 March 2016, 18:27

I just brown the mince, chuck the lot in a casserole dish, stick it in the oven, 90 mins, scoff it

**PurpleGorilla** · 2 March 2016, 18:51

Lots of oregano - that is my secret ingredient.

**sasguru** · 2 March 2016, 19:16

Classic and simple

Ingredients:

One Onion
Garlic fresh and crushed as much as you like
One or two chillies
Mince (one standard pack is that 400g?)
Tin of chopped tomatoes
Overnight soaked kidney beans
Salt and pepper

Fry the onion and garlic and chillies without burning.
Add mince, keep stirring so it's not lumpy.
When browned, Add tomatoes and kidney beans
Stir
Simmer adding salt and pepper to taste, keep stirring

**clearedforlanding** · 2 March 2016, 19:25

Chipotle are the magic ingredient.

**FrontEnder** · 2 March 2016, 19:32

get a variety of proper dried mexican chillis from here:

Welcome – Cool Chile

Use a lot of the milder ones like ancho, pasilla and a few hotter ones (Chipotle are great). Break them up and soak them in boiling water for 10 mins or so and then blitz them with a hand blender (with the soaking water).

Fry a good amount of onion (a couple of medium sized ones for 500g mince) on low/medium until just turning golden. Add some ground spices - I use a small amount of cumin and coriander, not too much as you don't want it to taste like curry.

Add your chilli paste and fry for a minute or two. Brown your mince on a very high heat in a separate pan, then throw that in. Add some herbs, dried oregano is good.

Add some beef stock (cubes are fine) and simmer on a low heat for as long as you can, uncovered so it reduces down.

melt in some good dark chocolate at the end before serving (just a few cubes).

Note there's no tomato or beans. What you want its a rich, beefy, spicy sauce, tomato does add anything to this. Beens have no place in a chilli, but it's acceptable to serve your chilli with beans as a side dish.

**AtW** · 2 March 2016, 19:32

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Raw

**clearedforlanding** · 2 March 2016, 19:39

Originally posted by FrontEnder View Post

melt in some good dark chocolate at the end before serving (just a few cubes).

Hold on there! You in Mole territory there!

What's your best chilli recipe?