Sam Sterns Chilli Con Carnie Recipes

AWARD WINNING CHILI CON CARNE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook green pepper, and onion, until softened. Add the ground beef and cook until browned. Crumble over bouillon cubes, and stir in wine; continue to cook for a few minutes. Stir in chopped tomatoes, garlic, and tomato paste. Season with paprika, chili powder, cayenne pepper, basil, oregano, and parsley. Stir in salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium low. Cover, and simmer for 90 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in kidney beans, and hot pepper sauce. You can add the reserved tomato juice if more liquid is needed. Continue to simmer for an additional 30 minutes.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, corn meal, and water until smooth. Stir into chili, and cook for a further 10 minutes, or until chili has thickened up.

JAMIES CHILLI CON CARNE

Steps:

• In a large pot, fry onions and garlic in a little olive oil until soft.
• Add chilli powder, fresh chilli, cumin and a little seasoning. Then add the meat and continue to cook, stirring, until it has browned.
• Process the sun-dried tomatoes in your food processor, with a little oil from the jar, enough to loosen into a paste.
• Add these to the beef with the tomatoes, cinnamon stick, and the water. Check the seasoning, and add more if you prefer.
• Bring to the boil, cover, turn the heat down and simmer for about 1 and a half hours.
• Add the kidney beans about 1/2 an hour before serving, they are already cooked and only need to be warmed through.
• Serving suggestions, steamed rice, crusty bread, a tossed salad, some guacamole or/and sour cream/yoghurt.

CHILLI CON CARNE RECIPE

Steps:

• Prepare your vegetables. Chop 1 large onion into small dice, about 5mm square. The easiest way to do this is to cut the onion in half from root to tip, peel it and slice each half into thick matchsticks lengthways, not quite cutting all the way to the root end so they are still held together. Slice across the matchsticks into neat dice.
• Cut 1 red pepper in half lengthways, remove stalk and wash the seeds away, then chop. Peel and finely chop 2 garlic cloves.
• Start cooking. Put your pan on the hob over a medium heat. Add 1 tbsp oil and leave it for 1-2 minutes until hot (a little longer for an electric hob).
• Add the onion and cook, stirring fairly frequently, for about 5 minutes, or until the onion is soft, squidgy and slightly translucent.
• Tip in the garlic, red pepper, 1 heaped tsp hot chilli powder or 1 level tbsp mild chilli powder, 1 tsp paprika and 1 tsp ground cumin.
• Give it a good stir, then leave it to cook for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Brown 500g lean minced beef. Turn the heat up a bit, add the meat to the pan and break it up with your spoon or spatula. The mix should sizzle a bit when you add the mince.
• Keep stirring and prodding for at least 5 minutes, until all the mince is in uniform, mince-sized lumps and there are no more pink bits. Make sure you keep the heat hot enough for the meat to fry and become brown, rather than just stew.
• Make the sauce. Crumble 1 beef stock cube into 300ml hot water. Pour this into the pan with the mince mixture.
• Add a 400g can of chopped tomatoes. Tip in ½ tsp dried marjoram, 1 tsp sugar and add a good shake of salt and pepper. Squirt in about 2 tbsp tomato purée and stir the sauce well.
• Simmer it gently. Bring the whole thing to the boil, give it a good stir and put a lid on the pan. Turn down the heat until it is gently bubbling and leave it for 20 minutes.
• Check on the pan occasionally to stir it and make sure the sauce doesn't catch on the bottom of the pan or isn't drying out. If it is, add a couple of tablespoons of water and make sure that the heat really is low enough. After simmering gently, the saucy mince mixture should look thick, moist and juicy.
• Drain and rinse a 410g can of red kidney beans in a sieve and stir them into the chilli pot. Bring to the boil again, and gently bubble without the lid for another 10 minutes, adding a little more water if it looks too dry.
• Taste a bit of the chilli and season. It will probably take a lot more seasoning than you think.
• Now replace the lid, turn off the heat and leave your chilli to stand for 10 minutes before serving. This is really important as it allows the flavours to mingle.
• Serve with soured cream and plain boiled long grain rice.

CHILI CON CARNE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink, 5-7 minutes; crumble beef. Drain and set aside. , In the same pot, heat oil; saute onions until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the green pepper, salt, chili powder, bouillon, cayenne, cinnamon, cumin and oregano. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring until combined. , Add tomatoes and browned beef. Stir in water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for about 1 hour. Add beans and heat through. If desired top with sour cream and jalapeno.

SOUTHWESTERN CHILI CON CARNE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add peppers and onions and cook until slightly tender. Add the ground beef and spices and cook until browned. Skim off excess grease. Add the diced tomatoes and soy black beans and simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• To serve, garnish chili with cilantro. If desired, top with shredded Cheddar or Jack cheese, sour cream, and sliced scallion tops.

ANTHONYS CHILLI CON CARNIE

Steps:

• Put some oil in a large frying pan or wok and heat on a medium heat. Dice the onion and crush the garlic and add to the oil until the onion is soft, don't burn the garlic as it will become bitter.
• Next add the tomato puree and cook out for about a minute to reduce the bitterness. Breakup the mince and add to the pan season and brown off the meat, don't overcook the meat or burn it.
• Whilst meat is browning empty tomatoes in to a jug and add chilli powder and crumble in the oxo cube and mix all together. Once the meat is ready pour over the tomato and chilli mix and stir in to the meat and simmer. Whilst this is cooking wash kidney beans and add to the pan. As the chilli is cooking the mixture will produce its own liquid, cut the mushrooms in to quarters and add to the mixture. Simmer until mushrooms are done and sauce is at required consistency.
• Taste and add more chilli or season to suit individual taste.
• Put Table spoon of sour cream on chilli to serve if required (will reduce chilli effect if too hot) ENJOY
• If having rice wash rice until water is clear, 2 cup of rice to four cups of water. Bring rice to the boil and reduce heat and simmer. Once water is at or below level of the rice turn heat to lowest setting and cover with lid to steam rice. Don't let rice burn, when ready drain and fluff up with a fork and serve with chilli. If not ready to serve leave rice in sieve and place over pan of hot water and put lid on top, this will keep rice moist and hot. Don't let rice sit in water!

CARROLL SHELBY'S CHILI CON CARNE

Steps:

• Cut the meat into quarter-inch cubes.
• Heat the oil in a skillet and cook the meat, stirring often, until browned.
• Transfer the meat to a kettle and add the onions and garlic. Cook briefly and add the chili powder, oregano, paprika, salt, cumin, tomato sauce and beer. Bring to the boil.
• Cover closely and cook over very low heat one hour. Add the cayenne pepper and cook two hours longer. As the chili cooks, skim the fat from the surface.
• Add the goat cheese and cumin seeds and Simmer, stirring, 30 minutes longer.