[Closed] Who's got a good Chilli Recipe?

the one you're describing sounds like the jamie oliver one - and it's bloody tasty

Coffee could be good. I usu. add powdered cumin, coriander and a decent pile of grated 100% cacao to make it nice & rich.

Heston Blumenthal did a good one, but I´d leave out the marmite and add a few jalapeños for a little extra heat:
http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/h/heston_s_rich_chilli_con_carne_with_spiced_butter.html

Not quite chill but I've been making a batch of [url= http://allrecipes.com/cook/10362834/blogentry.aspx?postid=243811 ] Charro Beans [/url]weekly, the meat version with pork, and have to say it tastes utterly fantastic. I was always someone who thought a chilli was a chilli, only differentiated by hotness, but there's a lot of different flavours in this.
Ancho and arbol chillis, and epazote leaves came from [url= http://www.mexgrocer.co.uk/ ]Mex-grocer[/url].

http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/gordon-ramsay/chilli-con-carne-recipe

this was a good one, even better with wallaby mince

Everyone always bangs on that a good chilli doesn't have tomato in it... but can I find a non-tomato chilli recipe....?

I think non-chilli tomato is known as 'white chilli' in the US. It's lovely.

Anyway - the best chilli I've had is this:

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As long as you cook the spices first (heat them for about 30s in a dry pan). Mmmm 🙂

Just throw in whatever is in the cupboard, always seems to be tasty.

Apart form the obvious ingredients these few things make a chilli extra special:

Chipotle Chillies (smoked Jalapenos)
Dark Chocolate - 70% Cocoa
Ground Coffee

Never use mince either, just use stewing steak cut into thin pieces and cook it for 8 hours.

I´d leave out the marmite

Heresy. That's a critical ingredient in chilli.

onion - chopped and fried
mince - browned
add tomatoes (tinned) and tomato puree
add minced garlic, chopped ginger and chilli (skins only, scotch bonnet are best imho)
simmer 30-40 mins, lid on, same again lid off
scotch bonet chilli seems to benefit from being left overnight in the fridge

wash hands before picking nose, going for a pee or getting intimate with lady friends

Never use mince either, just use stewing steak cut into thin pieces and cook it for 8 hours.

Nah, it's not chilli if it isn't mince based.

I tried the chocolate thing after reading it on here, and made a pan full of inedible stuff. It tasted exactly like it sounds; like chocolate in chilli, disgusting..

How much chocolate did you add? You need like one square.

Ok, you lot win.

Chilli for tea, then.

Nutella works.

can you use easter eggs? got a fridgeful.

Really? I put a whole Mars Bar in..... Not.

I just didn't like the chocolatey aftertaste, maybe its me, but I prefer my chilli to be savoury?

Chilli and chocolate = awesome.

I usually add a teaspoon of cocoa powder to mine. Yum.

I put in a teaspoon of cocoa as above, but also a teaspoon of sugar sometimes. It just adds a tiny bit of depth to the flavour, you're not supposed to actually be able to taste chocolate.

Dirty buggers; you wouldn't put mince in hot chocolate for that meaty kick would you? 🙂

I tried the chocolate thing after reading it on here, and made a pan full of inedible stuff. It tasted exactly like it sounds; like chocolate in chilli, disgusting..

Yeah, I love both but together - no ta.

Don't get the pepper on strawberries thing either, just tastes like you accidentally put pepper on a strawberry - doesn't compliment it at all.

This one: http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-precise-texas-chili-recipe.html

Uses 5 kinds of chile, as much bacon as beef (chunks of it, not minced) as well as coffee, beer and a little chocolate (as high a cocoa content as you can get, min 60%). For extra enjoyment, serve it with cornbread and just serve the chili on its own in a bowl with a little raw onion and cheese.

Many supermarket jars have a bit of cocoa in.

My recipe - meat (usually minced turkey because my wife isn't keen on beef), onion, garlic, packet of Old ElPaso chili powder then whatever else I find (chili sauces, tommy k, vinegar, lemon juice, jalapeños, kidney beans, sweetcorn etc - no recipe, just keep adding till the pan is full 🙂

http://stovies.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/chilli-very-con-carne/

om nom nom

Mine's a regularly evolving thing and takes on different variations. Here's what I just made for lunch, pretty quick and easy and very healthy. Non-tomato special for you clubber. If I'm going for a more typical chili con carne then I use minced beef and a can of tomatoes.

fry off some diced onion and garlic.
add chunks of chicken breast - seal them off
fresh chili, bit of chicken stock, cumin, coriander, chipotle paste all go in.
frozen black beans and aduki beans (I prepare big batches of these from dried and then keep them in single portion bags in the freezer to use as needed - much nicer and cheaper than tinned beans) and some halved fresh green beans go in. bring to boil and simmer for about 5 minutes.
add a shot of espresso and a bit of grated dark chocolate and 1 tsp of brown sugar. remove chicken pieces (especially if breast, they'll just dry out) then reduce the sauce to the desired consistency. Salt and pepper to taste and some more chili powder or tabasco if it's not hot enough for you.
garnish with some chopped fresh coriander. serve with rice or as I just had with a few corn chips on the side.

You can experiment with different meats (minced beef and pork also work well) or you can do without meat altogether if you like.

You're all freaks!

Steak mince, onions, kidley beans, tomatoes, garlic, chilli.

That's it.
Them mexican aztec fellas would cut out your hearts if they knew you were putting Mars Bars in their tea!

Coffee? Bloody coffee?

It's a DRINK, for drinking!

Them mexican aztec fellas would cut out your hearts if they knew you were putting Mars Bars in their tea!

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Aztecs INVENTED Chocolate, and they had it with Chilli in it.

Rubbish.
Cadburys invented chocolate, and at no point in recorded history have they produced a bar with 'Add to meat based meals' as one of the serving suggestions. Wrong, that's what it is, wrong.

...they did invent human sacrifice, and rubbish pyramids, bit still..

You have probably already eaten plenty of chili with chocolate in it.

the one you're describing sounds like the jamie oliver one - and it's bloody tasty

It is indeed, the missus has bought both of his latest books and cooked almost bugger all from both...

I'm fancying a proper Chilli cooking session next weekend and Jolivers recipe is a current contended, but thought I'd see what the STW Hive might have to offer first...

Marmite FFS! I want to make a tasty Chilli not one that tastes like a tramps anus! No we'll have none of that Cheston Hestonthal shite thankyou, that baldy toss-bandit is second only to Delia for churning out Culinary cobblers (interestingly both now pimp Waitrose products)...

Anyway thanks all for the suggestions thus far, I'm happy to invest some time if it's a long recipe with marinades or lots of simmering, and keep an open mind on ingredients (appart from Bloody Marmite!)... So keep em' coming...

Lloyd Grossman thinks beer is essential. Not so much a Aztec thing as a Tex-Mex thing.

I doubt that very much. Fancy foreign food hasn't been here long enough for folk to start mucking about with it; Heinz beans took a while to catch on after WWII...

the coffee works well - I was very sceptical when I first tried it but it definitely adds a nice rounded dimension to the flavour.

Kidney beans are also horrible flavourless little pieces of dung. I'll go head to head in a taste test with your chili any day crikey.

crikey - Member
You're all freaks!

Steak mince, onions, kidley beans, [s]tomatoes[/s], garlic, chilli.

That's it.
Them mexican aztec fellas would cut out your hearts if they knew you were putting [s]Mars Bars[/s] Tomatoes in their tea!

FTFY...

The other thing to keep in mind before you go getting all worried about authenticity is that chili con carne is not a mexican dish at all - it's tex/us-mex, so anything goes really. I've tried beer in chili before, didn't really like it.

Fry chopped onion til soft
Add garlic, mince, fresh chillis and brown
Can of tomatoes, dry lentils, kidney beans, bit of water, stock cube, square of v. dark chocolate, pepper, and any other crap you find that you can be bothered to chuck in. I've added marmite, worcestershire sauce, oregano, bay leaves, red wine, stout, whatever. Haven't failed yet 🙂

Most important: cook for at least two hours and leave overnight.

Try a bit of smoked paprika in your chilli, lovely for a slightly deeper smokey flavour and it also gives it a nice dark colour.

However if we were are trying agree the [i]correct[/i] recipe for chilli, rather than just a nice option, I suspect this thread may go for longer that that god one.

beer is essential

This is true, but not in the food ffs, you'll ruin the chocolate.

Who's got a good Chilli Recipe?

sorry cant share, it's a secret.

crikey - Member

Rubbish.
Cadburys invented chocolate

Incidentally,

Did you know, if you get a YORKIE bar, break it into its component chunks, scrape a bit off the 'O' with a sharp knife, you can then rearrange the pieces to make your very own CRIKEY bar.

Yorkie, " It's not for girls" probably the finest piece of advertising copy ever written...

and here's the spice mix for the one i posted, seeing as it has a dead link... http://stovies.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/feeling-hot-hot-hot/

80g Dried onion
40g Chilli powder
40g Cocoa powder
40g Mild curry powder
20g Cumin powder
5g Smoked paprika
5g Dried oregano
2g Salt
2g White pepper
2g Coriander powder
1g Cinnamon
A pinch of caraway seed
A pinch of allspice
1 Dried ancho chilli
2 Dried chipotle chillies

Yorkie, " It's not for girls" probably the finest piece of advertising copy ever written.

Well it certainly allowed me to stop the thieving harpies at my last workplace nicking it. Although that might have had something to do with me shouting "IT SAYS IT'S NOT FOR YOU, CAN'T YOU READ" whenever they approached.

Also, a proper Texan chili has neither beans nor tomato in it, isn't served with rice and won't be made from mince.

I always add a twice as many tins of chopped tomatoes as I would normally use in a dish of that size. Cook is long and slow until it reduces down. Secret ingredients have included the a fore mention cocoa powder, beer, tequila and lime juice.

Has anyone mentioned star anise yet?
Superb addition to anything involving beef. Especially chilli.

I despair. You're all hopeless cases, chilli has to have kidney beans in it or its just mince and onions, and it has to have mince in or its just stew.
I bet you all have beer with fruit in too.

Chilli should be served with rice, although half rice half chips is acceptable if you're on a diet.

As always; the answer is beer.
http://aspicyperspective.com/2011/10/everyones-favorite-chili-recipe.html

Sausages? Carrots? Beer?

In a chilli? More like a bloody cocktail...

fussy bugger...

I'd rather not get bogged down in notions of the "Correct" or "True" Definition of chilli or for that matter which social/ethnic/national group(s) lay claim to it...

Just gimmie recipe suggestions, and explain why you feel your recipe is more awsome than any other...

Marmite is wrong (in every possible way) but Coffee/Beer/Cocoa/chocolate are all viable ingredients unless proven otherwise...

Oxo is an acceptable ingredient, if the desire for fannying about with food cannot be resisted, but coffee, beer, cocoa and chocolate are not. In my stunted parochial ignorant and devoutly simple opinion.

crikey, I defy you to tell me anything which is not improved by the addition of beer somehow.

Sobriety?

Beer is acceptable, but only by application to the digestive system of the chillimeister.
Beer is for drinking, not coooooking!

You'll be telling me about coq au vin next, which is chicken and mushroom with the wine in the wrong place!

Or steak and ale pie.... Just have steak pie and a pint!

paprika yes.
chorizo hell yes
cubed meat instead of mince. hell hell yes.

but chocolate? no no no

Sobriety?

Au contraire!

Sobriety is eminently improved by the addition of beer.

Chilli!!

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Tonight I had my homemade chilli with spicy wedges and topped with more jalapeños.

I forgot to add my fave ingredient to my recipe - Dave's Insanity Sauce - two drops per portion or it just gets silly.

Dave's Insanity Sauce

Not that insane. This stuff is just stupid... [url= http://extremefood.com/shop/product.php?productid=52&cat=0&page=1 ]Blairs 16 Million Reserve[/url]. Even comes with a warning that it's not for eating.

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Just looked at my bottle and it has a 'best before' of 2007 and there is still about 1/3rd of a bottle left despite using it once or twice a week 🙂 Not exactly a good business model but gorgeous nonetheless.

I have some habanero paste that I got 10 years ago. Still lurks in the back of the fridge looking threatening... almost inedibly hot.