Carole's Chilli

Carole's Chilli part cooked

This is the way I did chilli.  A made up dish so no doubt many of you great cooks out there will have suggestions as to how it could be improved.  And they are all most welcome.  Isn't that one of the great things about cooking – there are always new things to learn and try out!

So I prepared a bunch of stuff – I like to do all the prep I can first before starting cooking.  I usually store the prepared ingredients in little plastic food containers:

Onion roughly chopped

2 dried red chillies, soaked in hot water for a while and then chopped

Small piece of pumpkin, peeled and cubed

Garlic – lots chopped

Zucchini – chopped

Capsicum (bell pepper) chopped

Tin of red kidney beans drained and rinsed

Then I also used:

Packet of taco spice mix

Soy sauce

Worcestershire sauce

Tomato paste

Tomato sauce

Maple syrup

Small amount of water

I browned the ground beef (mince) and added the onion, fried it up for say 5 minutes then added everything else and let it simmer for say 5 to 10 minutes.

I then transferred it to the oven (at moderate heat only) and let it slowly cook for about 45 minutes.  This lets the flavours meld together.  Before serving taste it to see if it needs salt (possibly not because of the taco mix) and any more heat – in which case add chilli powder or cayenne pepper.

Chilli served with rice

Carole's Chilli got the thumbs up from the better half so all was well.