Turkey and black-eyed bean chilli with cheese-stuffed patacones

Name: Turkey and black-eyed bean chilli with cheese-stuffed patacones
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 3 h
Cuisine: American, Mexican, Latin American
Ingredients: 1 litre chicken stock; 2 large onions, 1½ finely chopped, remaining ½ roughly chopped; 1 chipotle chilli, stalk removed; 1 small scotch bonnet chilli; 7 tbsp olive oil; 750g turkey mince; 3 celery sticks, finely chopped; 1 green pepper, finely chopped; 6 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1 bay leaf; 3 tsp smoked paprika; 1 tsp cayenne pepper; 3 tsp ground cumin; 4 tbsp sundried tomato paste; 400g tin black-eyed beans, drained and rinsed; 2 tsp white miso paste; 10g dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids; 2-3 green jalapeños, roughly chopped; 250g mozzarella, roughly chopped; 200g taleggio, roughly chopped; 15g oregano leaves; 15g coriander leaves; ½ tsp salt; Vegetable oil to deep-fry; 6 large green plantain

Instructions

Prep:1hCook:2h

Fatti Tarkleman shared this chilli recipe with us in celebration of Pride month, and it’s knock-your-socks off delicious. One for spice-heads, we think you’ll be coming back to this time and again! Fatti says: “My wonderful ex-housemate Denholm mostly hates cooking. He is usually working his buns off in at least three different jobs at a time (including the wonderfully inclusive drag show @disnaysnatch) so rarely has time to dedicate to it. But every now and then he would make a humungous vat of turkey chilli to see him through the next millennia which he’d serve with tasty patacones (twice-fried plantain), reminiscent of his travels in Colombia. This chilli is a tribute to his. Though I don’t know whether he realised, Denholm’s own fiercely proud queerness helped encourage me to embody my own more fully. We lived through two long lockdowns in the same home, and as a wonderfully emotionally generous human he helped provide love and fun and board games to get through it.” Find more of our chilli recipes here.

Updated at: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:00:34 GMT