Finally a Good Chilli Recipe!

I Love Chilli!! I have been looking for a great recipe and finally i have found it!! Thank you Gourmet Traveller!

In this recipe i substituted the chirozo for about 150g of bacon and i didn't use pork shoulder so the rest of the ingredients a used a little less than suggested, and cooking time was MUCH less!! One day i might dare the 2 hour slow cook, the end result would probably be very worth it.
I didn't use jalepenos, i just used red chillies from our tree out the back. Any-hoo this turned out really yummy and my American friend who we had for dinner said it was very good too!!! Note: the chocolate make soooo much different so dont omit it!! Mmmmm.....chillli!!!

Chilli con carne

Serves 6
Cooking Time Prep time 30 mins, cook 2 hours 20 mins

Ingredients

Chilli
180 gm (1 cup)	dried kidney beans, soaked overnight
60 ml (¼ cup)	olive oil
1 kg	minced beef
2	chorizo, cut into 1cm pieces
500 gm	pork shoulder, cut into 1cm pieces
1	onion, finely chopped
2 cloves	garlic, finely chopped
1-2	fresh green jalapeños, thinly sliced (see note)
500 ml (2 cups)	beef stock
400 gm	canned tomatoes
50 gm	dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), coarsely chopped
60 ml (¼ cup)	malt vinegar
2 tbsp	dried oregano
1	cinnamon quill
1 tbsp	coriander seeds, toasted and finely ground
3 tsp	cumin seeds, toasted and finely ground
1 tsp	cayenne pepper
To taste:	ground chilli powder
½ cup (loosely packed)	coriander leaves
To serve:	soft tortillas, warmed
To serve:	sour cream and lime wedges
Guacamole
3	avocados, coarsely mashed
½	red onion, finely chopped
1	vine-ripened tomato, seeds removed and finely chopped
1	small green chilli, finely chopped
1 clove	garlic, finely chopped
2 tbsp	coriander, thinly sliced
1 tbsp	lime juice

Method

1	Place kidney beans in a saucepan, cover with cold water, bring to the boil and cook for 20 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside.
2	Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large heavy-based saucepan over medium heat and cook mince, breaking up with the back of a spoon, for 5 minutes or until brown, transfer to a plate. Add 1 tbsp oil to saucepan, add chorizo and cook for 2 minutes or until starting to brown, add pork shoulder and cook for another 5 minutes or until brown, then add to mince. Add remaining olive oil to pan, add onions, garlic and jalapeños and cook for 5 minutes or until soft. Return meat to pan with stock, tomatoes, chocolate, vinegar, oregano and spices, season to taste with sea salt, freshly ground black pepper and ground chilli. Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours stirring occasionally until pork is tender. Add beans and cook for another 20 minutes or until sauce is thick. Adjust seasoning and chilli heat to taste.
3	Just before serving, make guacamole by combining all ingredients and season to taste. Scatter chilli con carne with coriander, and serve with guacamole, tortillas, sour cream and lime wedges to the side.

Quick and Easy Lemon Chicken

This is a great recipe! It really is quick and easy! You can marinade the chicken and make the sauce ahead of time, so that when you are ready to cook, just fry the chicken and then cook the sauce. I prepared the meal at lunch so when family was ready to eat, dinner was on the table in 10 mins!! I served with steamed rice and some asian greens. YUM!

Lemon chicken

Recipe thanks to AWW
INGREDIENTS

8 small chicken breast fillets
1 egg white
½ teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated green ginger
flour
2 tablespoons oil
30g butter
3 shallots
1 lemon
Lemon sauce
125ml (½ cup) lemon juice
1 chicken stock cube
2 tablespoons cornflour
2 tablespoons honey
2½ tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon grated green ginger
1¾ cups water

METHOD

Combine egg white, sugar, salt and ginger, mix well, add fillets, turn in mixture, stand 10 minutes. Coat lightly with flour. Heat oil and butter in pan, add half the fillets, fry until golden brown on both sides and until tender, remove from pan, keep warm. Repeat with remaining fillets. Spoon Lemon Sauce over fillets. Garnish with chopped shallots and thinly sliced lemon.
Lemon sauce: Combine lemon juice, crumbled stock cube, cornflour, honey, brown sugar, ginger and water in saucepan, stir over low heat until sauce boils and thickens.

Best Chocolate Brownies!

So i have been looking for a good chocolate brownie recipe for a long time and at last i have found it!!! I thought that it would be very appropriate to share with you for my first post.

For the ultimate result use only 70% dark chocolate or even better use couveture chocolate! These are so good it was the first thing i ate when i got up this morning! I know so bad, but they are so good!!!!


Ultimate Triple Choc Fudge Brownies

185g (6 oz) butter
185g (6 oz) dark chocolate, chopped
3 eggs
1 1/4 cups castor sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
2/3 cup plain flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
¾ cup white chocolate chips or roughly chopped
¾ cup milk chocolate chips or roughly chopped


Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place butter and dark chocolate in a
metal bowl over a pot of simmering water and stir until smooth.
Allow to cool.
Place the eggs and sugar in a bowl and beat with a electric
mixer(or wire wisk) until light and creamy. Add vanillia. Fold through chocolate and butter mixture. Sift the flour and cocoa over the mixture and mix to combine.
Add white and milk chocolate and pour into a 23 cm(9 inch) square pan that has been lined with cooking paper and sprayed with cooking spray.
Bake for 35-40 mins or until set. Insert skewer and if comes out clean, they're done! Allow to cool and then cut into squares.
Serve with icecream for a impressive dessert!