Ok, here's a basic chilli con carne recepie
2 onions
1 garlic clove
about 2 tspns of chilli powder (depending on how you like it, I tend to just pile it on)
1 tspn ground cumin (keep it half the cumin to the chilli powder)
1 red chilli, finely chopped
pack of steak mince
2 tins of chopped tomatoes, use the cheap ones you'll not notice the difference
1/2 a cinnamon stick
1 beef stock cube
splash of Worcestershire sauce
blitz up some sun dried tomatoes or use some tomato pure
I like to add a splash of real ale
tin of kidney beans, again use the cheapest ones, there is absolutely no difference!
salt and pepper
Chop the onions and garlic and fry until soft, add the chilli powder and cumin.
Add the mince and season. Fry until the meat is browned.
Add the tinned tomatoes, the cinnamon stick, crumble in the stock cube, the sundried tomatoes or the pure, the chopped chilli and the beer (or just use water if needed instead). splash in some worcestershire sauce. Simmer for about 1 hour then add the kidney beans (rinse them in water unless you like farting the next day), continue simmering for another 30mins or so and thats about it. Serve with rice. Tastes even better if you do it the day before and stick it in the fridge then reheat. (obviously dont do the rice the day before!) Don't worry too much about the timing, you can cook this forever and it still works, you can rush it a bit too, but it wont taste so good.#
You can be really lax with this, its really a lazy dish, chop and change it around, add extras if you want, I sometimes chuck in something like sweetcorn if I have some (I'm sure this will shock some!) It's really easy.
