Your favorite Chili Recipe

[HonoluluBrew]

What are some of your recipes for making chili? I love making it in the fall. This one below I usually do in a slow cooker for 12 hours.

-2 cans diced tomatoes (large 16oz cans)

-1 can black beans

-I can kidney beans

-2 large vidalia onions (or any other sweet onion)

-1 1/2 pound meat (lean beef or venison)

-4 or 5 fresh jalapeno peppers (grill them or roast them over gas flame if possible)

-3 tablespoons sriracha hot chili sauce

-2 tablespoons dried oregano

-1 tablespoon dried basil

-1/4 cup vinegar (i used white balsamic, you can probably substitute any mild vinegar)

-1 tablespoon dried chili powder

-1 1/2 tablespoons cumin powder

-1 1/2 cups frozen sweet corn

-1/2 can beer

-1/2 cup ketchup

-2 stalks celery

-salt to taste (1TBSP or less)

[homer]

I use a grain called Quinoa (keen wa) as a kind of thickening agent. It's really really healthy for you and doesn't really get in the way of the overall taste.

 

Other than that, the only special thing I use Tapatio Salsa Picante sauce. It's da bomb.

[dadofandrew]

Where do you buy a can of ketchup?

 

I use tomato juice, beef, onions, and chili powder.

 

I add garlic powder, salt and pepper to the beef, and brown it, then fry up the onions as well. I put the rest in the crock pot and add the beef/onions, let it go for 4-10 hours. Excellent served with cheese bread.

 

Never measured anything, so I'm sorry. I just fill the crock pot up with juice.

[And That]

A little bit of chocolate, about 3 Harps and a fair amount lentils are the only special things I use. I didn't see cilantro above, and I use that too. I've never had corn in chili - I might have to try that next time.

[Patrick425]

I don't really care for traditional chili. I'm not a big fan of tomato based foods. Bean, vegetables, and meat in tomato juice just doesn't do it for me.

 

However, I LOVE Real Chili. It's not at all like traditional chili. For those of you not familiar..Real Chili is a Milwaukee legend with two locations on Wells street. They have been featured on the Food Network. I sound like an advertisement. I eat there once or twice a week.

 

I believe Real Chili is much like Cincinnati style chili. Although I'm not that familiar with Cincinnati style chili, so I'm not sure.

[homer]

Patrick,

Real Chili is great and the closest thing to Cincy style that Milwaukee has. I think the one difference between traditional and Cincy style is the use of cinnamon in the ground beef - and the lack of tomato paste/sauce as you mentioned.

 

If you ever road trip to Cincy, head to one of their Skyline Chili restaurants (they're all over the place) and try the original. It's awesome. You can actually buy the meat in cans over the internet if you want to try and make it at home.

[MHgb]

I was expecting great things went I went to a Skyline in Cincy last year. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with their chili. I think Wisconsin should be more famous for chili if that stuff is considered some of the best.

[BrewCrewForever]

I love chili. I will eat anykind anywhere. It is one of my favorite meals to have, a bowl of chili with a couple pieces of bread is pure joy.

[homer]

Sometimes i think the buildup makes something more incredible than it is. In n Out burgers are great but the way some people talk about them you'd think that eating one grants you access to the pearly gates.

[Bring Back the Stein]

I went to the Texas Men's State Chili and Barbecue championship this year in Johnson City, Texas, and had an epiphany as if though I was struck off my horse. I'm from the south side and never believed in the Texas chili primacy until that day. This means meat, stock, no beans, no onions, spices. Really, I am sold.

 

The techniques were all very simple, and, so, too were the recipes, but that doesn't mean anything: One of the aphorisms there was that, "You can cook my recipe, but you can't cook my chili." However, one common denominator among the champions was the spices that they used for the two or three spice dumps were from "Mild Bill's." No lie. I've not got a financial stake in any of it, but I've tried the spices and it's changed my life:

 

http://www.mildbills.com/

[strawbossisevil]

The Cinci-chili recipe on this website is awesome. Just be sure to use Tomato Paste instead of tomato sauce, so the chili is extra thick. And be sure to pile high the onions and cheese.

 

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Beef/CincinnatiChili.htm