How to Cook Chocolaty Beef Chili
Serves: 6-8
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 2 ½ hours
Ingredients needed to make Chocolaty Beef Chili:
- 1 lb minced beef
- 1 lb beef steak
- 14 oz black-eyed beans, drained and washed
- 14 oz kidney beans, drained and washed
- 3 oz plain chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 14 oz chopped tomatoes
- 1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 white onion, peeled and finely chopped
- Bunch of fresh cilantro, leaves picked and finely chopped
- 1 dried chitpotle chili
- 2 celery stalks, trimmed and chopped
- 17 fl oz beef stock
- 3 tbsp light brown sugar
- ½ tbsp chili powder
- 1 tbsp dried chili flakes
- 2 tsp oregano
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 8 tbsp sour cream, for serving
Cooking instructions for Chocolaty Beef Chili:
- Drizzle a couple of tbsp oil in a heavy- bottomed pan and heat it over high flame.
- Throw in the beef cubes and stir fry until they are browned on all sides; brown them in batches to avoid overcrowding.
- Drain them out onto a paper-towel lined plate, using a slotted spoon and set aside.
- Pour another tbsp of oil into the same pan and dump the ground beef into it.
- Brown them for 3-4 minutes and drain them out, using the slotted spoon, into another plate.
- Pour rest of the oil into the frying pan and throw in the celery, white as well as red onion and sauté for about 3-4 minutes, stirring at times, until the onions soften and turn lucid.
- Drop the chitpotle chili into the pan, followed by dashes of chili powder, crushed chili flakes as well as oregano.
- Stir them all together until mixed properly and continue to sauté for another couple of minutes, stirring often.
- Dump the meat back to the pan and empty the cans of beans into it, followed by chopped tomatoes and sugar.
- Pour in the beef stock, give it a good stir to mix well and bring it to a boil.
- Reduce it to a simmer, fasten a tight-fitted lid on top and continue to cook likewise for a couple of hours.
- To serve, stir in a dash of seasonings and drop in the chocolate chunks.
- Whisk them together until the chocolate melts and fold in the chopped cilantro.
- Turn off the heat and pour it into a large serving bowl.
- Add a large splodge of sour cream on top and serve alongside steamed rice.
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