Easy Chilli Con Carne

That famous dish of the American South made easy!

Ingredients

• Half a kilo mince meat (ideally beef)

• 1 cup Rajma soaked overnight

• 1 onion chopped finely

• 2-3 garlic cloves crushed

• 2 red peppers

• 2 teaspoons chilli powder

• 1 heaped teaspoon cumin powder

• 1 heaped teaspoon coriander powder

• 250 gm tomatoes chopped fine

• Soy sauce

• Beef stock or water

• Oil

• 2 tablespoons coriander chopped

Method

Cook the rajma with 3 cups of water in the pressure cooker.

Heat oil in a wok or pan and add the onion. Fry till it turns golden brown. Add the crushed garlic and fry for one more minute.  Now add red peppers and fry till soft.

Now add the mince meat and fry till the meat turns brown. Add the chilli, coriander and cumin powder.

Add tomatoes and stir in soya sauce. Now add the meat stock, the kidney beans and salt. Let it simmer so that the kidney beans absorb the spices.

Garnish with coriander and serve with long-grained rice and a garden salad.

Kidney beans are low in fat so if you are conscious of calories, these are great to add to your diet. And since they are loaded with fibre, they also fill you up.  One cup of cooked kidney beans provides 45.3% of the recommended daily intake for fibre. Fibre is known to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease