I just lost my chili (as in the red sloppy stuff) virginity. I usually cook with a more asian style, but tonight I thought I'd try something different. Pretty basic recipe:
500g beef
1 brown onion, chopped
1/2 red capsicum, chopped
1 carrot, diced (roughly)
3 big tsp diced garlic
2 big tsp ground cumin
2 big tsp ground coriander seed
1 big tsp hungarian paprika
1 big tsp dried oregano
1 400g tin of tomatos
1 cup beef stock
2 trinidad scorpions, diced
pinch of salt, sugar and cracked black pepper
brown the meat in olive oil, add garlic, cumin, coriander, paprika and oregano, mix through, add onion, capsicum, tomato, stock and chili, and the salt sugar and black pepper, simmer for a good hour or 2. Serve with rice.
Basically made the recipe up as I went, and it tasted pretty good, I'll make it again. Except next time, I think i'll use just the 1 scorpion,
as it was almost like eating molten lava. My scorpions are quite a bit hotter my nagas, I'm sure of it - I've cooked smaller meals just for myself with 2 nagas before (sometimes 3 if they're not fully ripe), but this stuff was hotter than them. Someone needs to do some HPLC testing on these suckers...
Oh, and I thought about adding beans, but decided for my first go I'd give them a miss. I know beans can be a bit of a hot topic with chili (pardon the pun
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edit: forgot there was 1 cup of beef stock that went in with the veggies.