Chili

[Blarg]

I'm not with Diplomat on the corn in the chili, but definitely recommend having more than one texture in the meat. I like to combine hamburger with pork roast. The extra chew goes really well in a savory dish like chili and provides variety bite to bite. Diplo puts sausage in the mix, too, and I guess that could be good too. Truth is, chili is pretty easy to make interesting with almost any kind of meat. I've had chicken and turkey chili, and they were great too.

[BigD226]

1/4 cup olive oil
2 large onions, chopped
2 lb ground beef (shoulder or chuck)
2 lb ground pork
2 tablespoons salt
1/2 - 2/3 cup chili powder (start with 1/2 and add more to taste)
3 tablespoons ground cumin (from toasted seeds)
3 1/2 tablespoons dried oregano
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
3 teaspoons cayenne pepper (I like it hot, but 2 teaspoons might be enough)
4 cups tomato juice
3 cups beef stock
8 medium garlic cloves, peeled and minced
2-3 tablespoons yellow cornmeal to thicken (more/less as needed)
32 oz dark red kidney beans

Brown the meat with 1/2 the oregano, cumin, and chili powder mixed in...throw it in the crock pot with everything else, slowly adding the rest of the spices every 1/2 hour or so until its to your liking...let it simmer all day.

[Blarg]

I've also found a bottle of dark beer poured into the chili does wonders for the taste.

I also like to get almost all the liquid in the chili from a lot of onions and tomatoes cooking down. Onions practically disappear, so you just get a flavorful broth, not a feeling of "what the hell are all these onions in here for?"

[bugstud]

2-3 lbs ground beef
1 of the large cans of tomato juice, I forget how many oz it is.
a decent amount of beans, pick your style
I prefer fresh onion on top of the bowl rather than cooked in
a full head of garlic, if not 2
a combo of 4 parts chili powder, 2 parts cumin 1 part paprika, 1 part cayenne powder, plus a pinch of flour.

brown the beef w/the garlic. get all the spices mixed together in a bowl, get enough to covered all the beef. drain the beef, get all the grease out, then dump all the spices on the beef and heat for like 1 min. add the beans and then the tomato juice, add chili powder on top for some color. cook until it starts bubbling.

[Blarg]

Paprika in chili? That's a new one on me.

[midas]

This recipe is the real deal. Keep ground beef, beans, tomatoes and other crap away from your chili. Also, that junk they serve in Cincinnatti is not chili.

The only things that should be in chili are the following:

2 lbs Chuck roast - cubed and browned
4 cloves Garlic - chopped and fried in oil
4 Dried Chipotle Chilies - soaked then chopped - save water
4 Dried Ancho Chilies - soaked then chopped - save water
2 or 3 Jalepeno Chilies - seeded, chopped then fried in oil
1 tbl each cumin and oregano - toasted until fragrant

Dump above in a heavy bottomed pot and just cover with chili soaking water. Simmmer above for 2 hrs, add 1 tbl Masa Harina (corn flour-for thickness) simmer for one more hr. Add salt n peppa and hot sauce to taste. Chill overnite and reheat for best flavor.