Chili Con Carne

Categories: Main course | Meats

Serves: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

2 lb Ground beef (patinho)
3 lg Onions; chopped
4 Cloves garlic; minced
1 cn Beer
6 Ripe tomatoes; peeled,seeded
-and, chopped or
1 cn Tomatoes
2 tb Ground cumin
2 tb Dried oregano
4 Chili peppers; chopped
1 tb Dried chili
1 pn Cayenne pepper; or to taste
2 Bell peppers seeded and;
-chopped
2 tb Canola oil
2 tb Olive oil
4 tb Corn flour
1 ts Brown sugar
1 tb Thyme
Salt and freshly ground
-pepper, to taste
1/2 lb Kidney beans cooked with 2
-Tbs brown sugar (optional)

Instructions:
1. Brown beef in 2 Tbs of the hot oils ( canola and olive), it will release
liquid before it browns.( this should take about half an hour) Set aside

2. In another pan cook onions in 2 tbs of the oil until it starts to change
color. Stir in bell pepper and cook until soft.

3. Add garlic and cook 1 minute.

4. Stir in cumin, oregano, peppers, chilis and thyme. Cook 1 minute.

5. Stir in browned beef,season with salt and pepper

6, Pour beer and cook until foam disappears

7. Stir in tomatoes and sugar and bring to a boil and simmer uncovered for
1 hour, stirring occasionally.

8. Sprinkle the corn meal and stir well. Cover pan and simmer 2 hours. Stir
a few times.

9. Add beans and some of the liquid they were cooked in. Cook 10 minutes.

10 Check seasonings. Serve topped with chopped green onions

Recipe by: Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky

Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Leon & Miriam
Posvolsky on Sep 18, 1997

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