Beef is used to make a wide variety of dishes with Chillies. It works particularly well with tougher cuts where long slow cooking is needed to make the meat tender and infuse flavour. Cuts that lend themselves to this type of cooking include oxtail, ox cheeks, and short ribs
Some great tasting curries and spicy stews can be made with these cuts; but don’t exclude stewing steak ( chuck and blade , skirt, leg and flank) from the equation
. These cuts are delicious, as long as they cook slowly and for long enough. Besides using these cuts in curries, they are also used to make beef Chili and spicy goulashes
Other uses of beef with Chillies include making spicy sausages like Boerewors ( South African spicy sausage), Frikadellen ( meatballs from Germany with Chillies), Biltong (dried meat from South Africa similar to Jerky) and Indian style roast beef with spices and cHillies
One of the most popular uses for tender beef is for steaks. Creamy chilli sauce made with cream, Chillies and Worcester sauce is fantastic with steaks.
Another great use of Chillies is to make dishes with minced beef like Babotie, spicy burger patties and koftas. It is also terrific when used to make meatloaf and to stuff into Bell peppers
A final note
An excellent thing to remember in long and slow cooking with beef is that it is always good to use a cut with some bone in it. A cut with bone will add extra flavour to the dish during cooking