Spiced Mexican Beef Chili
- 2 pounds beef diced
- 1 clove garlic chopped
- 1 tablespoon flour, all-purpose
- 1 teaspoon oregano ground
- 1 teaspoon cumin ground
- 1 teaspoon coriander ground
- Take lean beef and cut in small dice, put to cook with a little oil.
- When well braised, add some onions, a clove of garlic chopped fine and one tables poon flour.
- Mix and cover with water or stock and two tablespoons espagnole, 1 teaspoon each of ground oregano, camino, and coriander.
- The latter can be purch ased at any drug store .
- Take dried whole peppers and remove the seeds, cover w ith water and put to boil and when thoroughly cooked pass through a fine strainer.
- Add sufficient puree to the stew to make it good and hot, and salt to taste .
- To be served with a border of Mexican beans (frijoles), well cooked in salted water.
- Boil beans in an earthen vessel until soft (four to eight hours).
- Mash and put them into a frying pan of very hot lard and fry until comparatively dry and light brown.
- Sometimes chopped onions are put int o the lard before the beans are added and sometimes pods of red pepper or grated cheese.
beef, garlic, flour, oregano ground, cumin ground, coriander ground
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/spiced-mexican-beef-chili-46472 (may not work)