A very simple recipe for chili con carne

I'm not terribly competent in the kitchen, and cooking every night isn't high on my list. This is one dish I make quite frequently though; my Mum's recipe for chili con carne, which I grew up eating; have fond memories of buying the ingredients as a child! Seeing as I had to apply thumb screws to get the recipe out of her, I thought I should save it for posterity by putting it up on the web. Maybe there are better chilis out there, but the one thing this has going for it is that it's almost impossible to screw up. No matter how bad a cook you are, this will still taste pretty good.

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 1 pepper (red/green)
• 1lb minced beef
• 1 large tablespoon of tomato puree
• 1.5 teaspoons of chili flakes
• 1 tin of chopped tomatoes
• 1 tin of baked beans
• 1 tin of red kidney beans in chili source (just use ordinary kidney beans if you can't get them)

Find a nice big saucepan, because everything's going to cook in it. Fry the onion and pepper with the chili flakes for a few minutes. Add the mince and wait for it to brown, then add the tomato puree, the 3 tins of beans. Leave to simmer for one hour and it's ready! You can spice it up a little by adding fresh chilis if you want, but I like it like this -- it has a rich tomatoey flavour and it's not too hot. Don't skimp on the minced beef! Cheap frozen mince will always taste crap, and it will probably be full of water. You can obviously add more peppers/beans and replace the mince if you're a veggie, although I've never tried that so I don't know what it would taste like. As it stands, this dish will feed 4 very hungry people.