MINCE!

This can be a taco filling or something you eat with bread or with rice or even noodles.

I make this at home frequently because everyone loves it. Mince is warm, mince reminds me of when I was in school. Every time my Dad had to make dinner, he'd make mince but it was super special because he'd add tiny cubed potatoes in it and we'd eat it with rice. He spent years trying to perfect his mince recipe. It's called "kheema" in Hindi/Marathi and now I perfected mine.

Ingredients

1. Chicken mince (because it's easier for me to give instructions)

2. 1 tomato

3. 1 onion

4. Oil

5. 3 cloves of garlic

6. Chilli flakes or chilli powder, or chilli paste (I'd recommend powder)

7. 2 teaspoons black pepper, plus more to taste

8. 2 lemons (we need the juice)

9. Salt to taste

Directions

1. Chop the onion

2. Chop the tomato

3. Heat the oil in a pan on medium low

4. When it's hot (you'll see tiny bubbles) ; add the onion and 1/2 tsp salt

5. Add the garlic

6. Keep stirring, and when the onions and garlic are golden yellow-ish, add the tomato

7. Keep stirring till the tomatoes turn to mush.

8. Add pepper, red chilli powder

9. When oil starts to bubble out of the mixture add the mince.

10. Stir and keep breaking so there are no lumps. The mince sticks together in this super annoying way.

11. One you think you can't de-clump anymore, cover it.

12. Check after 10-15 mins, de-clump again. The mixture maybe slightly watery. That's cool. If it's not, add like 5 tbsps of water.

13. Cover it, cook for 10.

14. Uncover and taste. The chicken should be cooked by now.

15. Squeeze 2 lemons directly onto the mince when it's in the pan

16. Stir

17. Serve!