More Man Food: CB?s Chili

cobraboy

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I?ve posted killer recipes for Ribs and Wings on DR1 in the past.

Gather around, kiddies, I?m about to show how to make some excellent chili. This chili is chunky, not like a soup. It has great flavor and spice without being ?hot?, although you can definitely spice it up.

I served this in my restaurant and sold it out whenever we made it. We?d post a board 2 days in advance and sell all 5 gallons of it.

This recipe is a single batch. I usually make a double batch to have plenty to save. It gets better after some time in the fridge.

First, the ingredients:

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  • 1lb. COARSE ground beef, the 80% lean type. NOTE: You may have to ask the butcher for a special grind. Regular 95% lean grind will just fall apart after cooking and leave you disappointed.
  • 1 medium onion, coarse chopped
  • 1 medium green pepper, coarse chopped
  • 1/2cup beer (I use flat beer since the carbonation goes away anyway; I look for flavor, not fizz)
  • 1 tbs. cider vinegar
  • 1 15oz. can diced or stewed tomatoes (I?ve used fresh tomatoes and still prefer the prepared canned ones)
  • 1 15oz. can large red kidney beans (fresh, cooked beans are !great!, but canned much easier)
  • 2 tbs prepared garlic (you can use the equivalent in finely chopped fresh garlic)
  • 3/8 tsp Allspice
  • 3/8 tsp Coriander Seed
  • 1 ? tsp Cumin (this is the ?chili? flavor)
  • ? tsp salt
  • 5 tbs chili powder (this is the heat; want hotter? Use more.)

Let's start!

Chop the onion:
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Chop the green pepper:
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Put the beef in a pot over high heat:
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Add the onion, green pepper and garlic:
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Cook and stir/chop/mix until the beef is no longer pink and the veggies are soft. While it?s cooking, get the spices:
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And remaining ingredients together (remember, this is a double batch):
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Add them to the pot:
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Stir:
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Cook, stirring often, until the pot boils:
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Turn down heat to low, cover and simmer for at least an hour, stirring often, and serve:
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Mmmm?mmmmm

Excellent served covered with finely chopped onions and shredded cheddar cheese. Also use it in a chili salad, over a bed of lettuce, tomatoes and onions on top of Doritos, topped with shredded cheddar cheese, a big dollop of sour cream and dash of Tabasco!

If you like hotter chili, add more chili powder. If you like more ?chili? flavor, add more cumin. If you like it thicker, add some corn meal a little at a time.

Try it and tell me what you think!
 
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windeguy

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Looks very good. Not far off from my own personal recipe.
When I make it for myself alone it is MUCH MUCH MUCH hotter.
 
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yummy... will try this tomorrow! It doesn't look it needs a graduate chef to prepare, 10+

CB: an 80% lean ground beef, in the DR would that be "molida de primera" or "molida de segunda"?
 

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wish we had smellvision....

I am an ex-Dunedin-ite - and will prepare this AFTER acquiring ingredients this week and absolutely cannot wait for this adventure, thanks so much.
 

jrjrth

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My mouth is watering again...last week Buffalo wings this week Chili to die for...keep them coming...
 

cobraboy

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yummy... will try this tomorrow! It doesn't look it needs a graduate chef to prepare, 10+

CB: an 80% lean ground beef, in the DR would that be "molida de primera" or "molida de segunda"?
I think segunda. It's the cheaper of the two and more flavorful. PLUS it doesn't disintegrate like the really lean does.
 

CoreyH

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where can I buy the chili powder? Also, stew meat works great! Where is the chicken wing recipe?
 
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Anastacio

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I hope he almighty is going to get these recipes into some kind of easy find and search order, so we can reference them when needed without trying to use thus redic search function. We need a separate menu forum for this lot.
 

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I hope he almighty is going to get these recipes into some kind of easy find and search order, so we can reference them when needed without trying to use thus redic search function. We need a separate menu forum for this lot.

I book marked this thread under a bookmark folder I named 'recipes'. I don't want to lose track of it.

I have Internet Explorer. I save some Web pages to my hard drive as 'Web Archive, single file (*.mht)'

The search function doesn't recognize words of less than 4 letters which can be limiting.

I'm a spicy-holic when it comes to food. I grew up with white bread, American cheese, French's mustard and Uncle Ben's rice and didn't have a clue about food until I spent two and a half years in Thailand.

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If it's not spicy it's not tasty
 
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ExtremeR

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Results from Sunday's effort. Although we used 80% lean meat I think we should have gone with a fatter one as this one kind of disintegrated. Recipe was delicious Cobra.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53194477@N05/5571919853/" title="Chili by MarcosVargas, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5258/5571919853_a18373f041_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Chili" /></a>
 

bob saunders

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Results from Sunday's effort. Although we used 80% lean meat I think we should have gone with a fatter one as this one kind of disintegrated. Recipe was delicious Cobra.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53194477@N05/5571919853/" title="Chili by MarcosVargas, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5258/5571919853_a18373f041_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Chili" /></a>

Looks good Extreme, did you have presidente for flavor.
 

cobraboy

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Results from Sunday's effort. Although we used 80% lean meat I think we should have gone with a fatter one as this one kind of disintegrated. Recipe was delicious Cobra.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53194477@N05/5571919853/" title="Chili by MarcosVargas, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5258/5571919853_a18373f041_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Chili" /></a>
Wow! That looks awesome!

IMO, the ground beef thing goes along with the basic quality of the beef in the country. That is why I get a very course grind.

Will you adopt the recipe for future use?