Chocolate Chilli? Yum!
Cooking, believe it or not, is a big passion of mine.
I’m surprised I don’t blog about it more often actually, maybe I should change that.
The fact of the matter is: I love it.
About a week ago I made this dark chocolate chilli con carne and tonight, I’m doing it again.
This time round, I’m going to share the recipe 
So, you will need:
Main Ingredients
- 900g of good quality braising beef
- 1 large white onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 red chillies
- Olive oil (for frying)
Seasonings
- 1 tsp hot chilli powder
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch of dried oregano
Cupboardy Stuff
- 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 20g dark chocolate
- Salt & black pepper
- 2 x 400g red kidney beans
- Beef/Vegetable Stock
So first get yourself large oven proof pan of some kind; I used a massive metal saucepan. It needs to be biggish with a tight-fitting lid. Got that? Good.
Next, preheat the oven to 150C/130C with a fan/300F/Gas 2.
Cut the beef into 1cm-2cm chunks. Peel and chop your onion and garlic; deseed and chop the chillies.
In the pan, brown off your beef on the hob in a little olive oil in batches of for 2-3minutes and put it to one side. Add a little more oil to the pan and then gently cook the onion, garlic and chillies for a few minutes, then stir in your chilli powder and cook for a couple of minutes more.
Remember your beef? You should do, you only put it down five minutes ago. Put that back in the pan and coat with the rest of your seasonings. Stir in both tins of chopped tomatoes and your two tablespoons of tomato purée and then heat through. At this point, we come to the part you’ve been waiting for:
Now stir in your chocolate :)
Season to taste; salt, pepper etc, put the lid on your pan and place in the oven for 1 hour. Yep. ONE HOUR.
Hungry yet? I know I am. Right, while that’s cooking nicely, rinse and drain your kidney beans. You need to stir these into your pan after the hour is up (adding stock if you think the consistency is too dry).
Whack it all back into the over for a further hour, yes – another hour – or until the beef is tender.
Once finished, serve on a bed of rice and enjoy!
Tags: chilli, chocolate, Cooking with Whatley, food, nom nom nom
April 8th, 2009 at 02:32
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April 8th, 2009 at 08:34
I’m so on this tonight. Thanks for blogging the recepie!
April 8th, 2009 at 10:32
Do you melt the chocolate or just drop it in and let it melt away in the mix?
Personally I’d probably just make a cuppa and eat the chocolate but that probably has something to do with me being a) lazy, b) not a big fan of chilli and c) vegetarian.
April 8th, 2009 at 10:37
@munkimatt – Cool man! Are you going to blog your results? I video’d my stuff as well y’know.. Need to edit together and post up.
I used this method – http://whatleydude.com/2008/05/doing_things_in_sequence_-_the_hidden_nokia_feature
@Helen I broke the chocolate up over the pan and let it melt as I stirred it in. Nice and easy. Vegetarian? Cool. Just do the same and take out the meat!
April 8th, 2009 at 17:26
Just give me the chocolate
Looks legendary though.. highly impressive. I’m hungry now.
April 8th, 2009 at 17:57
needs more video
April 8th, 2009 at 18:02
Stefan,
Posting video shortly.. Promise.
April 8th, 2009 at 21:12
“There’s no such word as cupboardy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4v6q1BHarY
April 9th, 2009 at 10:02
If you want to try real Mexican chocolate & chili, go for Mole Poblano. Mestizo in London I hear is not a bad choice, but I haven’t been there myself: http://www.mestizomx.com/london.html
April 9th, 2009 at 11:58
[...] on from yesterday’s Chocolate Chilli post, I thought I’d share this video that I took using images that I took with my Nokia N82 set [...]
April 11th, 2009 at 23:30
Delicious thanks! An Easter version might include chocolate eggs, and rabbit instead of beef.
April 23rd, 2009 at 09:46
[...] tribute to @Whatleydudes fantastic post where he blogged his recipe for Chocolate Chilli (which is so good I insist you cook it some time in the next week or I’ll be round your house [...]