Chili con Carne
Shopping: serves 4, 3 onions, olive oil, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 large green pepper, 400 g beef mince, a packet of tomato puree, chili powder (1½ tsp), flour, 1½ tbsp (brown) sugar, a tin of chopped tomatoes or even better 4 fresh tomatoes, a tin of kidney beans, 2 spring onions, a chicken stock cube.
Method: brown the mince in the oil until it is brown, then add the chopped onion, garlic and pepper. Let it cook for a while, and meanwhile make the sauce with: brown sugar, tomato puree and chili powder or sambal (a pinch of pepper?). Sprinkle flour over the meat mixture and add the sauce and the chopped tomatoes. A chicken stock cube for extra flavour. Thin the sauce with a glass of red wine and add the kidney beans. Simmer gently for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring now and then, and thinning it with a little more wine if it needs it. And if everything is going well, you have probably started tasting that wine too? Add the chopped spring onions for the last 5 minutes.
Nice served with cucumber salad, see the sides.