“We’re having tea soon…”
And the chilli is still at the chopping onions stage. Now, in my books that means the chilli is still at least a four hour simmer away from “tea” time. At worst an hour away. Not to mention the fact the person making said chilli was nowhere to be seen (heard).
Well, it is conceptually a stew, after all, and (except in fantasy novels) stews take time.
One might have thought that Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti (for it is she) would know this. I dunno what her cultural food background is (she is after all a British Sikh), but for example a curry is also conceptually a stew…
A good quality steak chilli is a stew but most would use mince, in a frying pan, and it would take around 30 to 40 minutes.
If I were making a mince fryup I might well add chilli to it, but I wouldn’t call it a chilli…
With tinned beans that don’t need to be soaked overnight, I assume.
Fryup being the operative word, Dunnock
I think that most stews, meat curries & goulash-type meals involve quite a bit of preparation, benefit from long, slow cooking anna night in the 'fridge to ‘ripen’.
Gawds
I have a sudden desire fer oxtail , which won’t be happening, as I haven’t got any
Adds to The List
Carinthia.xx
You’re Southern, aren’t you.
Of course.
Beans in a chilli? Well, I don’t feel as religious about it as some people, but mostly I’m not in favour.
Haven’t eaten red kidney beans since hallucinating after eating them
Mr C too
1997
Tinned
I may need an Medicinal to wipe that memory
Carinthia.xx
Beware PHA…
A big problem with slow cookers - best to pre-cook the beans before adding them. Cannellini / butter beans can have the same issue. Normally tinned beans are OK (they’re cooked) but still best to boil them for about ten minutes.
All stoos from wherever they are need slow long cooking
Pulses need very slow cooking too
Only after being boiled vigorously - as per the above.
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid? Well, yes, but…
In the Fishly Kitchen, rejected with contumely…
I hurl my steeped pulses at a pan with water and once they have had a good boil they are drained and put in their sauce in a bean pot in the oven for a burble all day in a slow oven
Quite right too, Twellsy. Although I find that the burbling then continues into the night
Surely you’re not expecting me to be able to spell “phytohaemagglutinin”?
“Recovery occurs within four or five hours of onset, usually without the need for any medical intervention”
Well that’s no fun.
Only because they make me ill even when they have been properly boiled.
Who knew that beans and children had so much in common?
Gus dear I cook on a range so burbling is an all day and all night affair
Yup I am a true country woman or WI type of substantial old besom who does resemble a clipper ship under full sail…