Beef in chilli and chocolate sauce

Name: Beef in chilli and chocolate sauce
Yield: Serves 4-5
Cuisine: Peruvian
Ingredients: sea salt; bunch of spring onions; finely grated rind and juice of 1 orange; 1 medium onion; 600 ml beef or vegetable stock; 2 large cloves garlic; 3-4 fresh green or red chillies; 25 g seedless raisins; 75 g pecan pieces; 4-5 cloves; 750 g lean stewing steak; 400 g tin tomatoes; 1 rounded tablespoon cocoa powder; 20 g butter; 2 tablespoons sunflower oil; 1 rounded teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation info

Serves
4-5

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Orchards in the Oasis

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2010

About

Several Peruvian savoury dishes include a small amount of chocolate, which enriches the taste and texture. The chocolate used in Peru was far more bitter than any available here, and I find this sauce works best with unsweetened cocoa powder.

Ingredients

1 medium onion
2 large cloves garlic
3-4 fresh green

Americas
Peru
Main course
Stew
Gluten-free

Method

Peel and roughly chop the onion and garlic. Cut open the chillies under running water, discard the seeds and stem and then chop the chillies roughly. Put these ingredients into a food processor and add the pecans, raisins, cloves, tomatoes and cocoa powder. Whiz thoroughly until as smooth as possible.

Heat 1