Recipe: Lavazza Coffee Beef Chilli

Ingredients

• 2 kg beef brisket , trimmed and sliced into 2.5cm pieces
• 500 ml hot coffee made with Lavazza coffee
• 2 tablespoons muscovado sugar
• 3 large dried chillies
• 2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 onions , peeled and diced
• 4 cloves of garlic peeled and sliced
• 4 x 400 g tins of chopped tomatoes
• 3 peppers (whatever colours you like)
• 2 x 400 g tins of kidney beans
• olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Make up your coffee
2. Soak dried chillis in to re-hydrate.
3. Add oil, cumin, paprika, oregano, bay leaves and onion to a large pan on a low heat.
4. Fry until onions have softened.
5. Chop the re-hydrated chilis and add to the onion mix.
6. Add garlic to the mix
7. Place the mix into your slow cooker.
8. Add tinned tomatoes to slow cooker.
9. Add coffee to slow cooker.
10. Add sugar to slow cooker.
11. Fry the pieces of beef until lightly brown and add to slow cooker.
12. Cook for 3 hours on low.
13. Check that the meat is tender.
14. Add tinned kidney beans to slow cooker.
15. Add sliced peppers to slow cooker.
16. Mix.
17. Leave to cook for 1 hour.
18. Check that the ingredients are fully cooked.
19. Serve alongside flatbread or rice.