I need your best chili recipe

[Jase]

Every time I make it, it comes out blander and more acidic than I want.

 

Help me out plz.  Slow cooker preferred.  Open to vegetarian.

[Guest]

Bland you say...may I suggest...

 

[Jase]

I have children.  One of which complains that pepperoni is sometimes "too spicy, daddy".

[Guest]

I have children.  One of which complains that pepperoni is sometimes "too spicy, daddy".

I have a wife that says the same thing.  

[Jase]

your wife calls you daddy?

 

weird.

[Guest]

your wife calls you daddy?

 

weird.

 

Only on Fridays. 

[Johnny Rockets]

Only Chili I ever ate came from a Texas Pete can. I am not even sure it was real chili, I think it was called chili sauce.

 

That's all I got.

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

To answer your question though, I use just a tiny bit of ancho chili pepper and chipotle chili pepper, just enough so you can tell it's different than spaghetti sauce.  I add tobasco or texas pete to my bowl for the heat. 

 

 

[Inimicus]

Made this just this past weekend.  Just kind of made it up as I went and it turned out really good.

 

1 lb lean ground beef
1/2 lb chorizo
1 large pablano pepper
1 red pepper
1 med onion
4 cloves of garlic
1 lg can crushed tomatoes
1 lg can tom sauce
1 15oz can dark red kidneys
1 15oz can black beans
1 15oz can pintos
1 small can of corn (white & sweet kernels)

To taste and in order of importance & proportion  Start with tablespoons and go up/down to suit
4 parts Chili powder
2 parts Oregano
1 part Cumin
1 part Paprika

Dice the onion and peppers and mince the garlic.
Saute them in a little olive oil until the onions start to turn translucent
Add the meat and brown - add in a bit of the chili powder, oregano, and cumin to the mix once the meat starts to brown.
Drain the mix.

Return the mix to the pot and add all of the cans (drain the beans first) except the corn.

Add spices to taste

Cover and bring up the heat until is near boiling.

Take off the heat and let it sit covered for a couple of hours

Return to a low heat and once its back up to a serving temp add the corn

Give it another 5 minutes and your good to go.

Add some cubed queso to the chili in the bowl and have some blue tortilla chips on hand.

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

Neeses sausage.

/thread.

[Panthro]

Depends if you want to make texas chili or something else.

 

Buy a can off chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. add one pepper (washed) early on in the process. At the end add 2 tablespoons of the left over adobo sauce. it will add a smokey flavor and some heat.

 

 

[Hotsauce]

[Doyle]

The key to good chili is to use no receipe.  Just make that sh*t up as you go along.

[Panthro]

If you go with veggies in your chili reduce some bacon and cook then in that.

 

Zod and I were discussing pumpkin chilis...you can add a can of pumpkin pie filling and it adds a subtle sweetness to le chili too.