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Beef chili
Also known as chilli con carne · beef chilli · chili with beans · beef chili con carne
Beef and beans cooked long with cumin, chilli and tomato until everything softens into everything else. Deep and warm rather than sharp.
Typical serving
540 kcal
usually 430–680 kcal
 Protein | 34 g |
|---|---|
 Carbs | 42 g |
 Fat | 25 g |
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Before you start
- about an hour and a half, most of it unattended
Ingredients
Serves 4 · dimmer marks are storecupboard
- 600gbeef mince
- 2 tinskidney beans
- 2 tinstinned tomatoes
- 2onions
- 3 tbspcumin, oregano and chilli powder
- 15gdark chocolate
- 2 tbspoil
Method
5 steps
fry · 14mBeef browned in batches in a dry hot pan and lifted out. Crowded in, it greys in its own liquid and never browns at all.
- fry · 10m
Onions softened in the fat, then the spices cooked for a full minute until they smell toasted rather than dusty.
simmer · 1 hour walk awayBeef back, tomatoes, a cup of water, lid ajar, at the barest bubble.
fold · 3mBeans in for the last twenty minutes, and the chocolate at the very end — it reads as depth rather than sweetness.
finish · 2mSalt now rather than earlier, and better still the next day. Whether it may contain beans at all remains a live argument in Texas, where the answer is no.
Worth knowing
Whether chilli may contain beans at all remains a live and genuinely heated argument in Texas, where the answer is no.
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