Janes Chili Recipes

Steps:

• In a large pot, fry onions and garlic in a little olive oil until soft.
• Add chilli powder, fresh chilli, cumin and a little seasoning. Then add the meat and continue to cook, stirring, until it has browned.
• Process the sun-dried tomatoes in your food processor, with a little oil from the jar, enough to loosen into a paste.
• Add these to the beef with the tomatoes, cinnamon stick, and the water. Check the seasoning, and add more if you prefer.
• Bring to the boil, cover, turn the heat down and simmer for about 1 and a half hours.
• Add the kidney beans about 1/2 an hour before serving, they are already cooked and only need to be warmed through.
• Serving suggestions, steamed rice, crusty bread, a tossed salad, some guacamole or/and sour cream/yoghurt.

Steps:

• Ground the beef in a pan until cooked through. Drain and add to the crock pot.
• Add the pinto beans, kidney beans, beef broth and diced tomatoes to the crock pot.
• Dice the onion, green pepper, jalapeno.
• Heat a pan with the olive oil and add the onion, green pepper and jalapeno until the onion started to caramelize/brown.
• Add the chili powder, oregano and cumin. Mix. Next add the tomato paste and mix. Add to the crock pot.
• Cook for 4 hours on high, 6-7 hours on low.

Steps:

• -Saute onions & garlic in the butter & oil (use a heavy dutch oven if you've got it, otherwise you can transfer to a casserole after stovetop dirctions --
• -Mix flour, Salt & Pepper in a bowl. Dredge meat in seasoned flour and add to onions. Turn meat occsionally until browned evenly.
• -Add rest of ingredients up to (including) wine and bring to a boil.
• Bake at 300 for 1 1/2 hours.
• -Add remaining ingredients and continue baking another 1/2 hour.
• Serve with rice and steamed broccoli.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix the cream cheese and refried beans together well and spread with a spatula into a 9X13 baking pan.
• Spread the 2 cans of chili over the bean mixture.
• Pour the jar of salsa over the chili.
• Sprinkle the diced green chilies over the salsa.
• Sprinkle the onions over the green chilies.
• Sprinkle both cheeses over the onions.
• Bake in oven for 30 minutes or until cheese is bubbly.
• NOTE: Janet uses the microwave for 15 minutes or until the cheese is just melted.
• I used the oven.

Steps:

• fry the onions until golden
• add the mince until brownws
• add the peppers & fry for a further 2 minutes
• then add the rest of the ingredients into the pan
• simmer for mins-1 hours
• you can have this ticking over on the stove all day, as with a curry the longer you cook it the better it is

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté 3 minutes or until tender.
• Add 3 cups water and next 8 ingredients (through cannellini beans), stirring to combine.
• Combine remaining cup of water and tomato paste in a bowl, stirring with a whisk until blended. Stir tomato paste mixture into bean mixture.
• Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
• Ladle soup into bowls.
• Top with cheese, if desired.
• The prep time is estimated from how long it takes to chop 1-2 onions, open all those cans and mix up the tomato paste & water mixture.