9 Of Your 5-a-day Chilli

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/4 cup olive oil, cut into chunks (or chilli oil if you prefer)
• 1 pepper, red or yellow
• 2 tomatoes, quartered
• 2 medium onions, in large slices
• 2 carrots, peeled and cut into chunks
• 5 -6 garlic cloves
• 2 chili peppers, mild or medium (depending on your taste)
• 1/2 cup red lentil, washed
• 2 (8 ounce) cans stewed tomatoes
• 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed
• 1 lb ground beef (or vegetarian mince)
• 2 cups beef broth
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 3 tablespoons chilli mixed spice (see below)
• 1 cup sweet corn, frozen
• 1 (8 ounce) box mushrooms, washed, stemmed and quartered
• salt and pepper

Recipe

• 1 heat oil in a heavy pan big enough to fit all of the ingredients.
• 2 add the fresh vegetables (pepper, onion, tomatoes, carrots, garlic, chilli). cover and sweat vegetables for 10 minutes.
• 3 in separate pan, brown the ground beef in a small amount of olive oil.
• 4 add chilli spice mix to vegetables and coat vegetables.
• 5 add mince, stewed tomatoes, lentils, broth, beans and tomato paste.
• 6 cover and let simmer for 1 hour, stirring occaisionally.
• 7 add the mushrooms and sweet corn and simmer an additional 20 minutes.
• 8 season with salt and pepper.
• 9 serve with pasta, rice or steak fries.
• 10 for chilli spice mix:.
• 11 4 tablespoons cumin seed, 2 tablespoon coriander seed, 1/2 tablespoon chilli powder, 1/2 tablespoon oregano, 2 tablespoon paprika, 7-10 black peppercorns, 1/2 tablespoon salt.
• 12 blend all ingredients in a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle. makes enough for several recipes. store in an airtight container.