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Originally Posted by mineistaken
No beans? I thought beans are mandatory in chilli 
Also - why ketchup + tomato sauce and not just one of them (whichever you like more)? |
Yeah, I'd shy away from any recipe for anything that says to add ketchup.
Here is my recipe, for what it's worth:
1/2 lb of chuck steak ground (get your butcher to grind it for you)
1 large white onion
4/5 cloves of garlic
3 chipotle chillies (or chipotle sauce) - adds essential smokey taste
some fresh chillies (I grow my own so just use whatever is around), add according to taste
tom puree
1 tin plum tomatoes
Worcestershire sauce (pronounced WOOSTER, just FYI)
1 bottle of ale/beer
dry chilli flakes
1 tin red kidney beans
2 squares of dark chocolate
salt, pepper and dark sugar
cumin
hot smoked paprika
chili powder
Add a tablespoon of a flavourless oil to the pan and heat it up. Add the paprika, cumin and chili powder. Heating the spices like this is essential to open up their flavours. After 1-2 minutes add in the diced onion. Stir around and cook for 5 minutes. Add the garlic and chopped chillies (fresh and chipotle) Lower the heat and simmer on the lowest heat for around 15 minutes, makes the onions nice and sweet.
Remove all of that from the pan, and set aside in a bowl.
Turn the heat up, add mince, fews good splashes of the worcestershire sauce and brown meat. When brown all over, add the bottle of beer and turn heat down. Cook until all the beer has evaporated. About 15 mins or so.
Add back in the spices, onion, chillis and garlic. Add tom puree, tin of toms, seasoning and a little sugar. (Like a teaspoon). Add the 2 big squares of good dark chocolate. Stir up.
Cook like this on the lowest heat possible with a lid on the pan for an hour. Stir. Cook for another hour. Taste. If not hot enough, add some dried chili flakes. Stir. Add in the kidney beans and cook for another hour.
Serve. Fucking nice.