Recipe: Appetizing Beefed up Chilli Con Carne, with fresh chillies

Beefed up Chilli Con Carne, with fresh chillies.

You can have Beefed up Chilli Con Carne, with fresh chillies using 12 ingredients and 30 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Beefed up Chilli Con Carne, with fresh chillies

1. It's 1 Kilogram of Best beef steak mince.
2. You need 4 of Onions (medium).
3. It's 1 of Green pepper.
4. You need 3 Sticks of celery.
5. It's 1 of Scotch bonnet chilli.
6. You need 6 of Green chillies.
7. You need 4 Cloves of garlic.
8. It's 3 of X 400 grams cans chopped tomatoes.
9. Prepare 3 of X 400 grams cans red kidney beans.
10. It's 5 of Beef stock cubes.
11. It's of Olive oil.
12. It's of Basmati rice.

Beefed up Chilli Con Carne, with fresh chillies instructions

1. Peel, slice and finely chop the onion..
2. Finely slice and chop the green pepper..
3. Wash and then finely slice the celery length wise..
4. Slice the lengths of celery into very thin pieces..
5. Tip, freeze your fresh chillies straight after purchase to keep fresh and to prepare more easily..
6. Holding the frozen chillies by the stalk snip with scissors very finely keeping all the seeds..
7. Choose nice plump garlic Cloves..
8. Slice and using a knife finely chop the Cloves of garlic..
9. Drain the kidney beans and put to one side..
10. Open the chopped tomatoes and put to one side..
11. In a large heavy based pan, gently brown off the mince in its own fat.
12. Once browned, you will need to drain the fat off, making this dish nice and healthy. Put the mince to one side..
13. Clean the pan and add 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Turn on the heat and add chopped onion..
14. Add chopped pepper..
15. Add chopped celery..
16. Saute with the lid on untill vegetables are a little softer..
17. Now add the drained kidney beans..
18. Add browned mince..
19. Add chillies and garlic..
20. .
21. Stir through thoroughly then add the chopped tomatoes..
22. .
23. Stir then add the five crumbled beef stock cubes. (Salt and pepper are not needed in this recipe because of the richness of all the ingredients, celery and the stock cubes)..
24. Stir through really well..
25. Keep heat low, place lid over chilli and simmer gently for about 90 minutes..
26. Every 20 minutes or so check, stir, turn heat down to very low and replace lid..
27. When chilli ready, turn heat off but keep covered. Tip, a chillies flavour will improve over time, so can be made the day before and then stored once cool in the fridge..
28. Tip, always make the rice fresh for your chilli when needed..
29. Take 2 cups of washed basmati rice and place in a large heavy based saucepan together with 2 level teaspoons of salt and 4 cups of cold water. Bring to boil, turn heat down to absolute minimum, put lid on and time for 15 minutes. Do Not during this time, open, stir or turn heat up. You should have perfect rice enough for 8 Servings..
30. Place rice around dish and ladle a generous portion of beautiful chilli in the centre. Serve with a well-deserved glass of red wine and Enjoy!.