SCIENCE! (fewd)
Take one packet of chicken mince that was on special.
Add two onions, finely chopped, cook.
Add mixed veg, 1/3 packet.
Eye fruit bowl, add three apples.
Add can of chopped tomatos, simmer.
Decide that this is thus a sweet chilli con carne, add large puddle of mango chilli sauce.
Decide this is a sweet chill con carne, add puddle green chili sauce ( Read more... )
Add two onions, finely chopped, cook.
Add mixed veg, 1/3 packet.
Eye fruit bowl, add three apples.
Add can of chopped tomatos, simmer.
Decide that this is thus a sweet chilli con carne, add large puddle of mango chilli sauce.
Decide this is a sweet chill con carne, add puddle green chili sauce ( Read more... )
I'm not sure what you're asking but you make very interesting culinary decisions...
1) Chili con carne has beans and red meatby definition, this more like spicy chicken and fruit mash. Call it a different thing and your taste buds expect a different thing and you can be pleasently surprised.
2) Please don't make a rice recipe that requires draining... it hurts us Asians. Making rice is really easy: 1 part rice to 1 3/4 parts cold water, cover, bring to boil, reduce heat to lowest setting, wait until water is absorbed (15 minutes).
3) When you cook stews/chilis etc, there's a general formula: brown your meat, salt, remove, brown your onions and aromatics and powdered spices, salt, (add flour here to make a roux if using) add liquids and partly cooked meat and herbs, simmer on low for hours, adjust seasonings add non-aromatic vegetables, simmer for a little longer, take it off the heat, add dairy, serve.
4) Chicken goes great with cheese, it's the yogurt+tomatos I worry about (acid + dairy + heat = curdling) and the apple stewing for so very long, I'm guessing it totally disintegrated.
5) Honey cuts heat very well and without curdling, ditto coconut milk.
6) Rice is really forgiving and very few things go truly badly with rice, so I encourage you to try again.
7) My friend makes a fantastic spicy mango/apricot prok that's a lot like this (just minus the yogurt and vanilla and the mixed veg and with more herbs and spices and with pork) so other people have put similar ingredients together and it's worked for them.
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2) Yeah, I actually screwed up on the rice. It wasn't meant to need draining, I just ended up with less rice than I thought I owned, and given I added rice-to-water, it was a bit late by then.
3) I did all but removing the onion before doing the meat, and simmer-for-hours. Bear in mind I started this at 2AM as my first meal of, um, the day before technically, so shortcuts were liable to be made...
4) Oooh. Of course. Yogurt + chicken = ok, chicken + cheese = awesome! Thanks! (And no, I waited till it was off the heat before adding yogurt, so it doesn't curdle.) And the apple was meant to disintegrate - thickening agent and sweetener, see?
5) I'll have to remember the honey... never thought of that.
6) Yus! I intend to try it again too!
7) Good to know I wasn't completely insane, any chance of nicking the recipie? I can arrange pork if I think to, er, actually buy it some day.
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