Spicy Chocolate Beef

Last weekend I saw Jonathan Phang's Caribbean Cookbook in Travel channel. He cooked Spiced beef in a chocolate sauce with cook up rice. I got really curious how chocolate taste like if mix in a savory meal that's why I asked Pieter if he would like to try it as well.

Ingredients - recipe adapted from Allrecipes.com
4 teaspoons olive oil
2 onions, chopped
150g bacon, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 fresh chilli peppers, chopped
1.5kg beef (ideally braising steak)
2 tablespoons flour
600ml beef stock
1 (400g) tin peeled chopped tomatoes
1 teaspoon brown sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon chilli powder
50g plain chocolate

Preheat oven to 160 C / Gas 2 1/2. (I cooked it on stove) Heat oil in the pan, cook onion and bacon, add garlic and chilli pepper and cook for another couple of minutes. Move into a large casserole pot.

Dice the beef, coat with flour and cook until brown. Add more oil if necessary. Move into a casserole pot.

Stir stock into a pan, simmer for a minute and add to the pot together with tomatoes, sugar, cinnamon stick and chilli powder. Bring to boil.

Move into the preheated oven and braise for 1 1/2 hours until soft.

Remove from the oven, stir in the chocolate, let it melt and serve with rice or mashed potatoes.

Pieter liked it. He brought some to the office and shared with his colleague because he got curious when he saw the photo I posted in my facebook page.