Chilli Con Carne

Ingredients for Chilli Con Carne:

1. Rajma (Kidney beans) – 50 gram

2. Minced meat – 200 gram

3. Tomato – 200 gram

4. Oil – 2 big spoons

5. Onion – 1, chopped fine

    Garlic chopped – 1 small spoon

    Red chillies – 2, broken into 2 halves

6. Maida – 1 big spoon

7. Tomato sauce – Quarter cup

8. Salt – For taste

    Cumin powder – 2 small spoons

How to prepare Chilli Con Carne?

1. Soak rajma (Kidney beans) overnight, and next day cook it in pressure cooker adding sufficient salt and water.

2. Cook minced meat in a pressure cooker adding sufficient salt and water.

3. Cook it for 1 whistle, and when it cools, strain meat from stock. Keep both separate.

4. Put tomatoes in boiling water and then in cool water.

5. Remove the skin of tomatoes and make a fine paste.

6. Heat oil and saute ingredients five.

7. When raw smell of onion goes out and it’s fried, add minced meat.

8. Continue frying until it turns brown.

9. Sprinkle a big spoon of maida and mix it well.

10. Add tomato paste followed by tomato sauce and stir the contents.

11. Add the stock and boil it for 2 minutes in low flame.

12. Add cooked rajma and ingredients 8, mix well and cook for a few minutes till it’s done.

Note: You can serve it as full meal or curry/side dish. You can also substitute meat with paneer or vegetables.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, February 17 – March 1st, 2024

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