Who's got a good Chilli Recipe?

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 correct 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?

i have, thanks

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?

Bastard.

Au contraire!

Sobriety is eminently improved by the addition of beer.

Chilli!!

nom

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… Blairs 16 Million Reserve. Even comes with a warning that it’s not for eating.

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.