I need a good chili recipe

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I use Cajunate’s. It’s pretty solid - just search it. I found online.

Buy Chuck roast and have it chili ground. Buy flat steaks and cube them.

Brown off your meat with salt only.

The seasoning I leave to you. Good chili starts with good meat.

Get a bottle of mexene chili powder. Follow the recipe on that bottle. /thread.

Get off this board with that.

Use suet. It makes a big difference.

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rolled sausage-Jimmy Dean

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Eh..

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3-cans of pinto beans

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No.

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3-Canned Tomatoes

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1-Chopped bell pepper,green

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Stick of margarine

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I enjoyed trolling and wouldn’t take it back for a second. Not thrilled with the game but to have bama sec rant posters making serious responses to a question like that just makes life a little better. Good game. You guys left no doubt.

Kenji has a great one on serous eats.

I make a huge batch of chili and freeze it, so you might want to adjust the amounts. This will make 18-20 servings.

It's a milder chili, I've made batches in the past that would make your eyebrows sweat. You can make it as hot as you want by adding more hot peppers or just some Cayenne.

Main ingredients:

5 lbs chuck - coarsely ground
3 lbs ground pork
3 boxes Pomi strained tomatoes (26.4 oz each) or 6 lbs fresh tomatoes (diced)
3-4 tbsp tomato paste
4 medium onions diced
2 heads (not cloves, the whole bulb) of garlic diced
1 bell pepper, diced
1 head of celery, diced
1 32 oz box Beef stock
2 32 oz boxes chicken stock
8 Bay leaves
3 small cans hot peppers (4 oz eah) or 5 fresh jalapeños
3 small cans mild peppers (4 oz each) or 5 frseh anaheims/Hatch peppers (roasted if you want to get fancy)
32-36 oz of beer - use whatever you want. I've done it with ales, IPAs and just good old Bud Light.
4 16 oz cans Kidney beans - optional

seasonings

(really you can do do this to taste). do these in the spice dumps, these are the total amounts for the entire recipe

2 cups chili powder
lots of fresh oregano or about 1/4 cup dried
1/2 cup paprika
6 tbsp cumin
onion powder - as much as you like
garlic powder - as much as you like
salt and pepper to taste

Brown meat, strain fat and set aside. Remove fat from chili pot.

Put diced Green peppers (also fresh jalapeños and anaheims if using instead of canned) , onions, garlic, celery and bay leaves in chili pot with some olive oil (enough to cover the bottom of the pot about 1/4 of an inch) and cook until soft and most of the liquid has evaporated.

Add canned peppers, tomatoes/paste to vegetables cook 15 minutes

Add seasonings

Add back meat

Add beef and chicken stock

Add first beer

cook for 4-5 hours.

Spice dumps each hour

Add last beer and beans 1 hour before chili is done

serve with fresh chives, cheese, chili cheese Fritos, limes, avocado, and sour cream.

really very easy and hard to screw up. freezes great and it's so easy to toss some back on the stove when you don't feel like cooking anything or going out. Also cheap, if you do it right it's under $2 per serving.