This dish is very popular in North America. It has a pronounced pungent taste and excellent aroma, stimulating appetite and turning food into a real cult, where the king is chili pepper. Recipes using it are selected in accordance with the personal preferences of the cook or client. This is due to the fact that each individual variety of this product has its own pungency and taste. For gourmets - lovers of burning food - add jalapeno peppers, and to give the usual spicy taste they use the simplest kind of chili. Therefore, you have to decide which ingredient to use, because it all depends on personal preferences.
Ingredients
To prepare the dish you will need:
- beef - 2 kg;
- celery root - 1 pc.;
- chilli;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- bell pepper - 2 pcs.;
- ground paprika ;
- garlic - 6 cloves;
- pickled tomatoes - 2 kg;
- canned beans - 1 kg;
- tomato paste;
- salt;
- spices.
Product Preparation
First of all, you need to understand that chili - a dish whose recipe is so popular in Texas - is a rather spicy meat-based food with various vegetables and spices. That is why you should not turn beef into minced meat, but you need to rinse it well and chop it into small pieces.
The same should be done with celery, onions and bell peppers. Canned tomatoes must be removed from the can, peeled and poured with a small amount of juice.
Cooking
Real Texas chili is prepared in several steps. First, bell peppers, celery and onions are fried in a pan with a lot of vegetable oil. In this case, all vegetables should be covered with a golden crust. Next, in this pan, fry the meat over high heat.
When the beef is covered with a golden brown crust, prepared vegetables, garlic, spices, salt, tomatoes with juice and ground hot pepper are added to the chili in Texas style. After that, the fire is reduced and the dish is extinguished under a closed lid for two hours. At the same time, all products boil a little and begin to resemble a homogeneous mass. It is this effect that must be achieved.
After two hours, tomato paste and canned beans are put in chile in Texas style. At the same time, it is better that the beans are red - so they do not violate the general appearance of the whole dish. After that, the chili is again covered and stewed for another ten minutes. At the end of the allotted time, the fire is turned off and the dish is left to brew a little.
Innings
To the table, chilli is served in Texas in a separate plate or on tartlets. At the same time, it can be decorated with fresh herbs. It is worth noting that all drinks for chili must be selected very carefully. The fact is that hot peppers when interacting with water only increase their burning properties, and only milk can reduce this effect. Therefore, everyone chooses a drink based on personal preference. This dish, with some addition of spices and herbs, often won prizes in the US spicy food contest. That is why it is worth using carefully so as not to get burns of the mucous membrane.