5 Bean Chilli

I love a chilli, it's easy, it can feed lots of people for a dinner party or round a campfire! You can have it with jacket potatos or rice, salad or everlything. It also freezes really well, so perfect as a mid-week meal! 

There are lots of ways to cook it, from on the hob, oven or in the slow cooker. No matter which way you are cooking it, fry up the celery, pepper and onion first then slow cook from then on. Be that in the oven or slow cooker. (Depending on how much time you have.)

Ingredients:

1 tin of the following-

Hariot Beans

Butter Beans

Black Eyed Beans

Cannelloni Beans

Chickpeas 

2x tins of tomatoes (and one refilled tin of cold water.)

1x red onion

1x celery stick

1/2 a green pepper

Chilli powder and black pepper. 

This is a very simple dish, you can add herbs and spices too. I often use a glass of red wine when frying the onion but I've run out ! ;)

Fry up the pepper, onion and celery. Add depending on taste, 2-4 teaspoons of chilli powder. (With a little oil.)

Fry!

Make sure you keep stiring it so it doesn't stick and that its all coated in the chilli. 

Rince all the beans in cold water and add to the pot-once the onions have started to brown. 

Add the tomoato and refill one can once with cold water and add. 

I heated this up on hob in an ovenproof cooking pot. 

 

Cook in the oven till reduced, I cooked at 180-200 for about 30-45mins. Yum! 

Cheap Chilli

Here is a mega basic cheap dish for the lean weeks.

Ingredients:

1x tin of chickpeas

1x tin tomatoes (refill tin with water once)

1x small courgette

1x red onion

I had the following in the fridge, they are not needed but a good way of using up a little left over veg. 

1x spring onion 

Half a green pepper

Black pepper and chilli powder (I used about 2 tablespoons but add to your taste.)

A little fresh mint and rosemary from the garden, if you don't have this, don't worry.

Chop up onions and courgette into very small chunks, about 1-2cm. Fry, add the tin of chickpeas (after removing the juice, I have frozen mine in an ive cube tray for cakes.) Add the chill powder, pepper and herbs. Fry till starting to brown.

Add a tin of tomatoes, refill the empty can with water and add. Cook till source thickens.

Perfect with RICE!  

Slow Cooked Packed Out Chilli

Ingredient;

1x large red onion

2x sticks of celery 

2x handfuls of brown mushrooms

2x carrots

1x small leek

1x tin of Black eyed peas, chic peas (I used dryed) butter beans and cannelloni beans

1/2-1 tin full of Red lentils

3x tins of tomatoes 

3-4 tin fulls of water (so it covers it all)

Glass to two of red wine

(Can add soya mince.)

Rosemary, thyme, black pepper, 2 bits of garlic and chilli powder.

Seeds; sesame seeds, chia seeds and linseeds

Fry the onion, celery, leek and carrot. Once it's started to brown add mushrooms. 

Then when they start to brown, throw it all in! 

Keep mixing it (I use a large wooden spoon) till it all comes up to a gentle boil. I then cooked it on the hob for about 20 minutes on a gentle low boil. Then about 40 minutes on low heat. 

It's now in the oven at 100c. (The longer you cook it for the stronger the flavours and chilli becomes.) Am hoping to cook it for about 3-4hrs I may turn the oven down a little. I thought I should write this up before I forgot what I put in it! Will write it up better later :) 

It came out looking dry but just needed to be mixed. It was not as stronger flavour as I wanted, will add more chilli powder next time ;) 

I added some soya mince. It was so filling and yummy, with rice! Note to self:don't used dryed chickpeas! Use a can or sock over night ;)