Chili with no beans

I usually leave them out now, though I grew up different. If you'd like to have a little fun, run the beans through the food processor, then add to the simmering chili. Creates a nice texture as a bit of a binder. You have beans...no one gets hurt.

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You have beans...no one gets hurt

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That is exactly why they made this request. No gas...

So everything stays the same just no beans??

i love beans in mine

Real Texas style chili has no beans and a lot of Texans get upset if the beans are in there.

like a PB&J with no PB

I don't use ground beef if I'm doing chili without beans. I like to use cubed beef, usually stew or soup meat that I've cut a little smaller, or a chuck roast. For some reason, having the meat be in a more substantial form seems to work better for me.

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I have never done it this way before....i feel kinda weird.

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i would feel weird putting them in..

My current favorite no bean chili.

Ingredients

2 lbs pork butt cut into 1-inch cubes
2 lbs ground beef (You'll need the fat. This isn't health food.)
1/2 cup chili powder (Your local supermarket brand tastes like cardboard.) You may not need the whole amount. It depends on the chili powder.
1 huge onion roughly chopped
1 head garlic minced or pressed
8 New Mexican green chilies roasted, peeled, seeded and chopped. (can use aneheim, serano, jalepeno, poblano, etc)
1 tablespoon hot Hungarian paprika (This is legal. Paprika is a chili.)
1 tablespoon ground cumin
4 beef bouillon cubes
1 28-oz can crushed tomatoes (Don't worry. You won't even know they are there.)
1 12-oz bottle amber Mexican beer (Dos Equis, Noche Buena, or any Oktoberfest will do.)
1/4 cup Bourbon (One of those things that just happened)
2 squares bitter baker's chocolate -- (Not as weird as it sounds.)
Salt to taste

Preparation

Sautee all of the garlic and onions until translucent. Add all of the meat, chili powder and brown. Salt the meat while cooking. Put into your chili pot. Cast iron is best. Repeat until all the meat is done. Put the rest of the ingredients in your chili pot and simmer for an hour. As in any recipe, the amount of ingredients is variable. Add more of anything you want, especially chilies.

If you are not using beans you must use the Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatenango. They are grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum.

part of the fun of eating chili is the ability to blow the house apart for the next two days with uber gas