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BEAN CHILI WITH MEAT

Recipe of the month | BEAN CHILI WITH MEAT

Ingredients for 4 persons:

250 g dark red kidney beans, soaked overnight

250 g rice

250 g minced meat

300 g tomato chopped tomatoes

250 g grated cheddar cheese

1 green pepper

5 onions

4 large garlic cloves

1 chili pepper

1 pinch of cumin powder

Drain the beans. Peel the onions and the garlic, wash the pepper and remove its seeds and whitish veins.

Place the beans in a pot, together with the bouquet garnish, one clove of garlic and one onion. Cover with water, bring to the boil and simmer for one and a half to two hours.

Chop the remaining onions and garlic and the pepper. Brown the meat in a little oil in a frying pan.

Add the chopped garlic, onion and pepper and cook for 10 minutes. Then add the tomatoes and chilli pepper and continue cooking for another five minutes. Meanwhile, cook the rice in salted water. Drain. Layer the ingredients on a plate, starting with the rice and finishing with the beans on top. Sprinkle with cheese before serving.

Recipe of the month | BEAN CHILI WITH MEAT

Don’t allow fear of gas to keep from enjoying beans’ versatility and nutritional advantages. Some cooking techniques and Beano, an over-the-counter product, may also help. The unwanted vapor comes from sugars and starches not completely digested by enzymes in the small intestine. Once these carbohydrates travel into the large intestine, normal, harmless bacteria make a meal out of them and produce gas in the process. Beano provides a digestive enzyme the body lacks, so take it when you sit down to your meal. Draining canned or soaked beans also helps, as it rids your meal of some of the hard-to-digest carbohydrate.

Also it may be helpful as well as tasty to season your beans with herbs and spices. To reduce flatulence and intestinal symptoms associated with eating beans, cook with herbs and spices such as fennel, anise, turmeric, lemongrass, dill, oregano, rosemary, cilantro, bay leaf, ginger, cinnamon, and cumin. Experience shows that the body gradually adapts to increased bean consumption.

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