Quick chili in bell peppers

[michiexile]

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I start out with frying chopped onions with garlic, some chili, coriander/cilantro, black and white pepper, powdered paprika, cinnamon and cocoa.
Then I add bacon, fry it crisp, and add minced meat. Fry until nicely coloured, then add baked beans.
Let it simmer until rather thick, then taste.
Turns out it was slightly too hot for our taste, so I added a generous swat of crème fraîche. To mellow out the taste.
A pair of bell peppers. Remove stems, membrane and seeds.
Fill them up with the chili.
Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
And bake until pleasantly coloured. They ended up being VERY yummy indeed, and definitely something I'd recommend.

Comments

[mnenyver.livejournal.com]

Ooh, with pics too! That looks tasty. I wouldn't have thought of using baked beans. I've always seen green bell peppers stuffed with rice and ground beef or ground turkey. It looks like it would also be good garnished with a spoonful of sour cream instead of cheese.

[michiexile]

The baked beans were from the popular swedish derivative of a good texas chili - we always add baked beans to our 'chili con carne', and so when I wanted to fill them with something more interesting than "just" rice and ground beef, up came the chili.

Red instead of green is due to what got bought. I wasn't around for that part.

And sour cream on top sounds yummy too!

[mnenyver.livejournal.com]

Just curious -- are the baked beans you used in a sweet or savory sauce? Over here, if it's labelled "baked beans" it usually comes in a sweet barbeque or brown sugar sauce and are often seasoned with pork (as opposed to British baked beans, which taste like ketchup to me). The spicy, savory kind come labelled as "chili beans", though I usually buy just plain kidney beans with no sauce for my own chili.

Sorry for the questions. I'm sort of a foodie, especially when it comes to regional or national differences. :)

[michiexile]

The precise thingie I used was what's in swedish labelled "Vita bönor i tomatsås" - comes in a tomatoish sauce, not really spicy, but not really very sweet either. I think that baked beans are probably rather close to what I used; though it'd be interesting to hear about/taste variations.