What do you put on your chili?
Are you anti chili?
Are you a hardliner for any style or orthodox? No beans in chili, noodles (wtf), etc?
I prefer cornbread, sour cream, cheese, and onions. When I make a white chicken chili, I sub tortilla chips for the cornbread.
My wife makes our chili. I think that she uses a couple of different kinds of beans, maybe black beans and red beans and diced tomatoes. I don’t know, I just take four or five Omeprazole and eat it.
She does bake cornbread when we have it. I love the cornbread more than the chili. We usually put shredded cheddar cheese in the chili after we serve it, sometimes an avocado.
Chili toppings, depends. I am not a hardliner, hell I have a can of Hormel in my pantry waiting to be eaten.
If I make chili, I prefer bison and no beans. It I don’t mind adding beans.
If someone else make a chili I’ll usually throw on any and all toppings they offer as I like to try new stuff.
Why would anyone be anti-chili?
I love homemade chili. I have never had anyone’s homemade that wasn’t superior to canned.
I have a simple recipe I got off the webs and it makes a great chili.
of course beans, a mix of pinto and red or black. Ground beef or ground turkey. A little chipotle, if you want a little spice.
toppings? A little grated cheddar and Tabasco and crushed saltines.
You put cornbread in the chili? That’s an interesting choice
I put cheese sour cream hot sauce and oyster crackers
My go to recipe is:
1 lb. of ground turkey (with some kind of spicy seasoning)
30 oz. of tomato sauce
Red chili beans
Black beans
Peppers
Onions
Mushrooms
Crap ton of some kind of hot sauce
I put the mushrooms in for texture. Sprinkle a little cheese on top. About every other week I will make a batch and eat it for dinner 3-4 days straight.
1 1/3 pound ground beef
14 ounces smoked sausage diced I use andouille
Small to medium sweet onion diced
1 large Shallot diced
Two bell peppers diced
6 cloves garlic minced
2 TBSP each
Cumin
Cinnamon
Chili powder
Half a Hershey bar.
Couple of bay leaves
2 cans tomato paste
28 ounce can crushed tomatoes
28 ounce can tomato puree
Quart of beef broth
Salt
Cayenne
Spray the pot
Brown the sausage to render fat.
Add onions shallots and garlic peppers until colored some and peppers are soft
Add beef brown
Add seasoning stir well
Add chocolate
Make a hole and fry the tomato paste for a minute or four
Stir well
Add both types of tomatoes
Bring to simmer
Add broth
Simmer two hours minimum until thick consistency
Salt and cayenne to taste
reseason with cumin cinnamon and chili powder as needed
Cook another half hour
Is this to check people are reading? do you eat the other half during the cooking process?
It adds a depth of flavor
Very interesting.
I may have to give most of this a try. The depth of flavour can be a bit hit or miss for me and I don’t follow a recipe, just chuck a few bits together. Thanks.
Also, question remains, what happens the other half?
Make a s’more, eat it, toss it?
Yep chocolate is a real thing for chili. I’ve done it a few times.
Well I’ll give it a lash.
Honey says it’s called a “molé.”
She was not surprised when I read it to her.
The key is to take your time and build the layers if flavor in each ingredient
I had to look this up just now. Makes total sense now to be honest.
Should it be a higher % cocoa chocolate? or a lower percent, milkier one? I’m not a big chocolate fan generally. But the recipe does sound interesting to try.
Personally I’d go higher cocoa…I frequently use dark chocolate since I am much more likely to have that at home than milk chocolate
You could also try a little bit of Guinness in it.
Unsweetened cocoa powder is the best. It helps to cut the acidity from the tomatoes.