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Heston Blumenthal's rich chilli con carne with spiced butter recipe
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Heston Blumenthal's rich chilli con carne with spiced butter recipe

23 ingredients 20 min + 1 hr 10 min 4 people openrecipes

Adding the spiced butter to the chilli just before you serve it will make it rich and unctuous.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

764
Calories
38g
Protein
56g
Fat
24g
Carbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Beef 100g cooked 250
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Cheddar Cheese 1 oz (28g) 113
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Cumin 1 tsp ground (2.1g) 8
Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Star Anise not in our table 0
Red Kidney Bean not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 6 olive oil
  • tbsp minced beef (10% fat)
  • 450 large onion, diced
  • g whole star anise
  • 1 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
  • 2 green chilli, deseeded and diced
  • 3 tomato purée
  • 1 a bottle red wine (37.5cl)
  • 2 can chopped tomatoes
  • tbsp beef stock
  • 0.5 can red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
  • 400 jar Fragata Pimiento Piquillo peppers, drained and roughly chopped
  • g olive oil
  • 500 ground cumin
  • ml chilli powder
  • 400 smoked paprika
  • g tomato ketchup
  • 230 Worcestershire sauce
  • g Marmite
  • 2 butter, softened to room temperature
  • tbsp soured cream
  • 1.5 Cheddar cheese, grated
  • tsp limes, grated zest and juice

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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