[Closed] Chilli con Carne....what do you add to make it yours ?

when it's nearly done, a handful of frozen peas.

trust me.

I follow a BBC food recipe.

This one, in fact.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chilliconcarne_67875

Some more dried chillies, from a spice merchant in Goa.

Chipotles (which, slightly surprisingly, you can get in Tesco).

I was also given a block of Willie's Cacao a while back; in the absence of any better ideas we grated a bit of that into each batch of chili.

A couple of nagas and celery.

EDIT: chipotles are also awesome instead of nagas. Ancho chillies also great.

Cloves. Chipotle sauce. Mushroom ketchup.

Dark chocolate..

bulgar wheat. red wine.

Raw cacao and some lovely Pablo Ancho and Quajillo chillis

Chick peas, carrots and celery to bulk it up a bit. Sometimes a mug of coffee.

dark choccy and coriander

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A teaspoon of horseradish sauce..

jodafett - Member
Chick peas, carrots and celery

just no plain no ! this is what er indoors usually adds...no no no !

Chipotles I get that

This maybe a bit OTT but it's fantastic [url= http://m.goodfoodchannel.co.uk/recipe/514504/chilli-con-carne-recipe/ ]Best Ever Chilli[/url]

Coffee. I tried it for the first time with coffee a few weeks ago. Really works well.

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and diced chorizo. You owe me! 😉

Hendo's.

Condiment of Champions.

www.hendersonsrelish.com

I put some feta on mine the other night, it sounds so wrong, yet tasted so right.

I chop chorizo up into small pieces and fry it off with the onions at the start

I also add cocoa powder

My chilli is the bomb

I chop chorizo up into small pieces and fry it off with the onions at the start

Also a mix of pinto and kidney beans but pintos seem to be getting harder to find.

Chorizo sounds grand

Cumin, onions, coriander stalks, cinnamon sticks, balsamic vinegar, tinned toms, kidney beans, tomato purée, turkey mince, fresh chillis.

Am salivating just thinking of it.

Couple of dashes of worcestershire sauce...

My missus made me a chilli a little while back. I merely suggested that she may have forgotten the cumin.

She hated me for a little while.

A naga chilli is a must, a taste sensation.

There's one in a Delia Smith book that's pretty nice and very easy so I'm told

A few grates of nutmeg.
Some smoked paprika.

Scwartz Chilli Con Carne mix! Sorry, but it is pretty good I think. But good quality mince and as long cooking as you can makes the difference. I also add an Oxo stock cube and Worcestershire sauce and sometimes a good glug of a half decent red wine.

Coca Cola

Without duplicating what others have said,

Marmite.

Big chunks of beef instead of mince.

Tomato ketchup.

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BBQ sauce.

Mince! Sounds sillu but my missus only eats fish as a meat. So our chillis are bean only unless im in on my own, then mince gets slapped in.

Turn your back on this dark chili and try white chili. Chicken, turkey, white beans and, if you can find it, hominy.

You will thank me for this wise advice.

Beef shin rather than mince, cocoa powder, dark muscovado sugar and 1/2 a pint of coffee. Cumin, oregano, coriander and paprika with the chillies to spice it up a bit.

Then cook for hours and hours

Oh, only cook Chili sans Carne. But with bulgar wheat, a couple of red finger chillies, some dried chillies and smoked paprika.

Baked beans
Smoked paprika

Bananas and a 2B pencil.

Half shin or braising and half pork tenderlion. Dark chocolate and some dark beer to cook the meat off initially too. Nom nom 🙂

Cubed beef (like tiny 1cm cubes) nicer than mince, also and this is the biggest ingredient that really changes the dish...cumin! Not the ground stuff, but the whole cumin you get from the asian supermarkets. Grind it a smidge in mortar and pestel before adding.
Plain chocolate also good.

What's this [i]frying off[/i] and [i]cooking off[/i] bollocks? What is the OFF for?

derek_starship - Member

What's this frying off and cooking off bollocks? What is the OFF for?

My Mum would love you. 😆

Bananas and a 2B pencil.

I tried that once, ended up with lead poisoning.

Red wine .. plenty of garlic.

What's this frying off and cooking off bollocks? What is the OFF for?

Yep, i'm with you on that. If anything is going to be cooked in a sauce then it can just cook in the sauce. No need for any of this frying off nonsense.

Prefer chunks of beef rather than mince or even chicken cubed for a change.

Bourbon as well as red wine.
Pork and Beef.
Highly recommend Sheila Lukins USA Cook Book.
Still must try the venison one.
Great american pancake recipes too.

Where do you get hominy in the UK?

Red wine, double the amount of cumin recommended and fried chopped green peppers rather than vile red kidney beans.

The recipe is actually from the beeb, by a woman called Jo Pratt. I can thoroughly recommend it, but put more cumin in than she says!

Coffee and beer ftw

I use Nigella Lawson recipe which includes chorizo, coriander, cumin and chocolate but no coke. She recommends shin of beef and cooking it for at least three hours, its even better if you freeze it and reheat it again slowly a month or two later.

I meant cooking off some of the beer liquid before adding everything. Reducing it if you will 😉

As well as being a sucker for loads of cumin, I do like using a stack of flour tortillas as pseudo chappattis to scoop and scoff. Some sour cream and guacamole wouldn't go amiss either.

Oh and a nice cold lager.

Happy to help.

Chorizo and a mix of pinto and black eye beans, oh and lots of cumin

A big splash of Naga/Chipotle sauce for the adults once the children's portions are on the plates. Heat up and flavor up to change a good child friendly chilli into something a bit heftier. I know it's a little cheat but it means the whole family can share in a tasty home cooked meal.

And roasted whole chilli's on the side if other "grown ups" are present to encourage child like competitive behavior over an otherwise civilised lunch.

Where do you get hominy in the UK?

A good ethnic minority food store that serves a few nationalities should do the trick. I've found it in places like Peterborough Market and the Bristol Sweet Mart.

General onion, red beans, mince tomatoes.
Then it gets some chipotle sauce, chilli flakes depending on heat required, bit of cumin and a Star Anise. Never had any complaints yet.