Comfort Food/ Dinner/ Meat

Chili

January 1, 2018

I created my recipe years ago by messing with ingredients and also looking at the spices in Wick Fowler’s Three Alarm Chili mix. After coming up with what I thought was just the right mix of chili powder and cumin and such, I decided to try Penzey’s chili spice mixes, and now I just use theirs.

Frito Pie - chili, fritos, sour cream

Chili

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Ingredients

  • 1 lb hot sausage
  • 1.5 lbs ground or chili grind beef
  • 1.5 lbs ground turkey - or use beef stew meat, cut a little smaller for interesting texture
  • 3/4 c Penzey's Chili 9000
  • cooking oil (I use olive)
  • 2 chopped onions
  • 1 can diced green chiles, optional
  • chopped jalapenos, optional
  • 12 oz beer
  • 2 cans chopped or diced tomatoes
  • 1 large can tomato sauce (I get the same size can for both kinds of tomatoes)
  • salt
  • garlic
  • masa
  • pinto or kidney beans, optional
  • chopped cilantro, optional

Instructions

1

Brown the meats in a large skillet - I do this one batch per type of meat

2

drain the fat and set aside the meats

3

Dry roast the Chili 9000 - I do this is a dry skillet, stirring constantly until the spices smell toasty

4

Saute in oil - onions, chiles and jalapenos, until translucent - I use a big dutch oven

5

Add meat, beer, all 3 cans of tomatoes, spices, salt, garlic

6

Simmer together 1+ hours

7

Now is the time to add canned or pre-cooked beans - I made a lb of pinto beans in the Instant Pot for this batch.

8

Mix 1/2-1 cup of masa with enough water to make a flowing mix - add it to the chili and cook another 30+ minutes.

To a bowl of chili I add some or all of the following:
sour cream
shredded cheese
fritos
rice
crackers
corn bread

Chili with pinto beans

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