One pan Chilli con Carne - Chef Dave's family Recipe

Every now and then my sister likes to “test” me with a surprise bag of ingredients and “let” me cook dinner for her and the spoglings.

Yesterday, was one of these impromptu occasions – and sis arrived with sproglings in tow and a bag of ingredients.

As a family we buy our meat from a local butcher called ABC Butchers – 1. Because they give us good value for money and 2. The quality of the meat is top notch.  We also quite like the customer service.

So in my sisters’ bag was

·         400g of mince – bought from the butcher a tray of lean mince 1650grams is £10.00 which we split into portions of 400g so each portion costs around £2.50 (cheaper than the local supermarket)

·         2 small onions – 0.18p

·         1 400g can of tomatoes – 0.25p

·         1 400g can of baked beans – 0.23p

·         500g pre sliced mushrooms – 0.79p

·         1 red pepper – 0.25p

·         1 green pepper – 0.25p

·         1 bottle of red wine – optional for the chef

The ingredients all came from Aldi (my sister is on a budget week) and I used additional ingredients found in my store cupboard

·         Garlic

·         Worchester Sauce

·         Knorr Beef Stock pot

·         Colman’s Chilli con Carne mix (because this we have

found is the best for the sproglings)

·         Long Grain Rice

So concluding this meal served 5 adults 2 children and we had a portion to freeze so I would average this method serves 7 people making this 0.60p per portion

We cook our chilli in a one pot, so with all the ingredients sliced and chopped we are ready to go.

Method

·         Heat a little oil in the pan

·         Fry the mince in the oil until it is browning in colour add a dash of Worchester sauce and a sprinkle of garlic – give it a good mix.

·         Add the onions – in our chilli we use two small onions one we chopped in to chunks and the other finely diced but how you cut or even if you add the onion is best to be done to your own taste and style

·         Fry the mince and onions for about 6minutes then add the concentrate Knorr stock pot.  Stir the mix together dissolving the stock pot.

·         Again a family hack we do is we mix the chilli mix powder into the Can of chopped tomatoes, this is because it reduces the heat of the mix but actually intensifies the taste at the same time.  Thus making it perfect to for two 21month old boys.

·         Stir the mixed up tomatoes and chilli mix into the mince and onions, pour a little water (approximately 50ml) into the can to rinse it and add this to your pan also.

·         Add the baked beans and chopped peppers (you can slice your peppers but tonight we rough chopped them)

·         Leave to cook on a low light for about 20minutes, until cooked through

We served our dish with rice, however, you don’t need to serve it with anything just a bowl of chilli but alternatives are:

·         Nacho’s

·         Baked Potatoes

·         Stand and stuff tortilla’s

·         Chips

·         Or even on hot dogs (a.k.a. the chilli dog)

The main advice I can offer is to try it, mix it up add or remove make it your own

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