The Slow Cooker Club

This is my adapation of a normal chili receipe that seems to work really well in a slow cooker, this is by far and away my favourite recipe I've discovered so far!

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp Olive Oil
• 2 large onions or 4 banana shallots, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1 green pepper, deseeded and chopped
• 500g of minced beef
• 1 can of chopped tomatoes
• 2 fresh tomatoes, chopped
• 1 1/2 tsp Chili Powder
• 1 1/2 tbsp Flour
• 1 1/2 tsp Brown Sugar
• 4 tbsp Tomato Puree
• Sea Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper
• 1 Can of Red Kidney Beans, drained
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked and roughly chopped
• Handful of chives, chopped
• 200ml soured cream
  

Preparation

Fry the onions, garlic and green pepper in a pan until soft, then Add the minced beef and fry until lightly browned. Blend together the chili powder, flour, brown sugar, and tomato puree to make a paste. Stir the paste, canned and fresh tomatoes, thyme and seasoning into the pan. Stick all the ingredients into the slow cooker and cook for 3 - 7 hours dependant on heat setting. One hour before serving add the kidney beans.

Mix the chopped chives into the soured cream to give to the panzies that don't enjoy a hot chili! :-)

Notes

Serve with rice, jacket potatoes or tortilla chips (my favourite!).

Comments

dave

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Added a teaspoon of dried chili flakes as a test and it was just a touch too hot...perhaps wil ltry 1/2 tsp next time.

Friday 03 April 2009, 01:42

freckleface

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tried this last night for firework party, it is the best chilli i've ever made and went down very well with everyone. I added a pinch of dried chilli flakes and it was just right.

Friday 06 November 2009, 11:50

Jules

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Why not put whole hot chillies in? That way the people that like very hot chilli (like me) can have their hit as well as those that prefer a mild mix. I also put a couple of hot chillies into the rice cooker, with the rice. I makes plain boiled rice a bit more interesting

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 14:50

villafan

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im new to this slow cooking but im definatly gonna try the chilli let you know how i get on

Sunday 07 February 2010, 22:54

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