For GFIAFP

[cgod 0]

Brown the following ingredients in a pan:

 

1.3 lbs lean ground turkey

1 cup diced onion

1.2 cup diced green bell pepper

2 sliced red chilis

2 cloves of garlic

 

Combine the mixture with the following in a crock pot:

 

15 oz sliced tomoatoes

8 oz tomatoe sauce

14.5 oz dark red kidney beans

1/4 tsp black pepper

2-3 tsp chili pepper

1/2 tsp crushed basil

1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp baking cocoa

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

3 drops Tabasco pepper sauce

 

Cook on High for 4 hours.

[Giants Fan 85]

My recipe ... it's like 48 hours minimum. You gotta clean and soak your own pinto beans. They are cheap too. Green onion, white onion, garlic, cilantro ... browned chuck with salt and pepper, diced fresh jalapenos (de-seeded) ... some smoked bacon, or smoked turkey neck or hamhock, bay leaf, whole milk ... and you cook the whole thing ... for like a day ... until it's creamy .. add stock as needed. Of course remove the bones and bay leaf.

 

Could add a tobasco type sauce if you want it hotter. Eat with hot tortillas. Mix with eggs for breakfast.

 

Yeah ... you could use food processor and canned beans ... but it's just not the same.

[Vince44 205]

My recipe ... it's like 48 hours minimum. You gotta clean and soak your own pinto beans. They are cheap too. Green onion, white onion, garlic, cilantro ... browned chuck with salt and pepper, diced fresh jalapenos (de-seeded) ... some smoked bacon, or smoked turkey neck or hamhock, bay leaf, whole milk ... and you cook the whole thing ... for like a day ... until it's creamy .. add stock as needed. Of course remove the bones and bay leaf.

 

Could add a tobasco type sauce if you want it hotter. Eat with hot tortillas. Mix with eggs for breakfast.

 

Yeah ... you could use food processor and canned beans ... but it's just not the same.

 

I just may pass this recipe on, of course if you don't mind.

[Giants Fan 85]

Sure.

 

It's all what you like ... but if you use fresh jalapenos, do deseed them. The white area, around the seeds ... that's where the hot is ... the capsaicin. I like that stuff. I like mine hot, but the seeds are worthless. When I say chuck, I mean ground chuck, but a finely chopped chuck would even be better. Cook with salt and pepper, and drain before adding to beans and sauce. Also, might want to add some tomato sauce, paste, crushed tomatoes, chicken or beef stock (standard stuff).

 

Cleaning and soaking dry pinto beans ... is what makes it art. You can boil them to speed up the process, but you never want to undercook your beans. Hard beans ruin it, every time.

 

Some people ... I don't get it .... but some people say good chili ... has no beans.

 

I say good chili ... has no chili powder.

[texasmouth 1]

Sure.

 

It's all what you like ... but if you use fresh jalapenos, do deseed them. The white area, around the seeds ... that's where the hot is ... the capsaicin. I like that stuff. I like mine hot, but the seeds are worthless. When I say chuck, I mean ground chuck, but a finely chopped chuck would even be better. Cook with salt and pepper, and drain before adding to beans and sauce. Also, might want to add some tomato sauce, paste, crushed tomatoes, chicken or beef stock (standard stuff).

 

Cleaning and soaking dry pinto beans ... is what makes it art. You can boil them to speed up the process, but you never want to undercook your beans. Hard beans ruin it, every time.

How can you be so weird all of the time and then so normal sometimes? Makes no sense.

[Giants Fan 85]

Psycho?

[texasmouth 1]

Psycho?

Good call.

[D_House 0]

[Bert 1,128]

Brown the following ingredients in a pan:

 

1.3 lbs lean ground turkey

1 cup diced onion

1.2 cup diced green bell pepper

2 sliced red chilis

2 cloves of garlic

 

Combine the mixture with the following in a crock pot:

 

15 oz sliced tomoatoes

8 oz tomatoe sauce

14.5 oz dark red kidney beans

1/4 tsp black pepper

2-3 tsp chili pepper

1/2 tsp crushed basil

1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp baking cocoa

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

3 drops Tabasco pepper sauce

 

Cook on High for 4 hours.

 

cgod I apologize for what I am about to say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS CRAP IS NOT CHILI

 

Turkey????

Cinnamon????

Baking Cocoa???

 

Are you fockin' kidding me?

How many times do we have to go over this...cinnamon belongs in cookies and cakes not in chili.

[Big_Pete 0]

I love my dad's chili... cant really remember what the exact ingredients are, but if this is still 1st page or even 2nd page at 9pm MT when I get home, I'll post it.

I know it has the typical browned chuck, with sauteed onions, browned bacon, chili powder, japs, pinto/kidney beans etc....

the problem with me cooking it is that I only get it to taste like his about 50% of the time.. I do everything exactly the same every time, but only about 1/2 the time does it ever turn out like his

I may have to try GFIAFP's though... not sure about the milk though. I could think of maybe making a roux out of the fat from the bacon/beef to thicken it up and make it creamy... but i'll give it a shot when it isn't 80degrees in Denver like today

 

cgod I apologize for what I am about to say.

THIS CRAP IS NOT CHILI

 

Turkey????

Cinnamon????

Baking Cocoa???

 

Are you fockin' kidding me?

How many times do we have to go over this...cinnamon belongs in cookies and cakes not in chili.

supposidly alot of chili cookoff champs win cause they add chocolate/cinnamon to their stuff.... I do agree with the turkey though. If you want chili, eat it like a man.

But I will never flame on anyone for adding cinn/cocoa to it.

[Bert 1,128]

supposidly alot of chili cookoff champs win cause they add chocolate/cinnamon to their stuff.... I

 

These "cookoffs" are probably all held in Ohio or some other place up north.

 

The cocoa I might be able to deal with because I do like good chicken mole. But cinnamon and nutmeg no focking way that belongs in chili.

 

Be interested to see your dad's recipe sounds good so far.

[wiffleball 4,789]

The best thing I learned about chili is this:

 

 

The Meat Matters.

 

 

Cook up a good brisket, get some sirloins on the cheap, - even roast works. But being able to bite into a nice chunk of beef in your chili makes all the difference in the world. Ground beef (let alone ground turkey) breaks up too much in the cooking process. Sure, you can incude it too - more as a thickener than anything else.

 

As for beans / no beans - That's a regional thing. That'll never be settled.

 

The key to chili is to remember why it got its name: Fresh roasted chilis matter. In the Southwest, we learned that fresh out of the womb. The shiit in a can can't come close. You might as well put in pickle relish.

 

 

As for the other debate: Let's put it this way: There's not a single incredient that you would find in say - strudel - that belongs in chili.

[texasmouth 1]

I made the chili from the recip in the first post. Sounded pretty good to me. IT was pretty good, nothing special. I actually thought it was a little bland. No offense of course.

 

I would like to hear the entire step by step recipe of GFIAFP's chili, sounds good as well.

 

I have to argue about the cinnamon/cocoa argument. I judged a chili cook off in Whicita Falls, Tx. One of the professional chili cook offs. Really awesome event. Anyway, the best chili I tasted was a guy from Memphis. He put brown sugar and cocoa in his chili. He has won so many chili cookoffs that he said he lost count. He had an old water truck from a fire department that he turned into a driving smoker. It was awesome. He was retired and drove across the country pulling this thing behind his motor home attending these chili cook offs.

 

He gave me some really great ideas. The main one he told me was exactly what wiffleball said, the meat matters. I put steak in my chili and sometimes bratwurst too. Every person that has my chili always says it is one of the best they have ever had and I have even won a few chili cook offs, nothing major of course.

 

I am interested in new ideas though, would like to hear other ideas for making different chili.

[cgod 0]

No offense to anyone's post taken. You certainly can sub in or out anything you want. I never claimed this recipie was going to win a chili cookoff. I liked it and had just cooked some earlier in the day and saw GFIAFP on so in honor of his food posts I put it up. Everyone has their own preference. I use turkey rather than beef for the health aspect of it and since with all the other seasoning in there I can honestly not really taste that much of a difference. I am sure if I were to heed wiffle's advice about the ground meat I would notice a difference in substance. The small amount of cinnamon and cocoa in there are barely noticeable, matter of fact you could probably lighten up the cinnamon a bit to make it even more inconspicuous but I have noticed they help take the acidity out of the chili. You still get the kick but the next day you aren't dealing with the other end burnage. Just my $0.02.

 

For those who had some input I would love for you to post your recipies as I would love to try them out and tweak what I am already working with. TIA

[Big_Pete 0]

As Promised, my dad's chili recipe:

 

1 - 1 1/2 lbs Beef (we use smoked brisket, smoke it ourselves, got my own rub recipe at home, we use to bbq every friday,sat,sun till we perfected the rub)

1 Med-Large Onion

4 Slices smoked bacon

Kidney beans

Flour

Freshly ground chili powder

Freshly ground cumin

Garlic salt

Fresh cracked pepper

Jalapenoes

Whole tomoatoes

Tomatoe paste

Water

 

in an iron skillet, dry sweat the onions. always stir or else they will stick, you want to take them just past a sweat (translucent) and almost to a sautee (golden brown), so somewhere inbetween.

Chop up the bacon into 1/4" squares, so a nice medium chop, and add it to the onions. cook till it's medium/medium rare.

Add the Beef (either smoked brisket, chopped up cube steak/sirloin, or ground beef). Cook till done unless you use the smoked brisket.

Remove skillet from heat.

In a big bowl, add:

3 heaping tbsp. flour

3 heaping tbsp. freshly ground chili powder (from fresh chilies that you put in a coffee grinder)

1 heaping tbsp. freshly ground cumin (from cumin seeds. if not possible, just get the pre-ground stuff)

1 tsp garlic salt & cracked pepper

1 finely diced japaleno (seeds taken out)

Stir it all together and then sprinkle it on the meat in the pan and stir together.

Put that into your pot, over med-low heat.

Take a 28oz can of whole tomatoes, and chop them up and add them to the pot (tastes better this way than just getting the diced tomatoes or crushed tomatoes, trust me)

Add one of those small cans of tomatoe paste.

Drain and wash thoroughly a can of kidney beans (normal size can is what, 16oz?) and add to that.

Add minimum of 28oz filtered water.(could use beef broth/consomme instead) Stir together.

Let cook for a few hours. Add more water if needed, and cook till desired thickness. Usually takes 1 1/2 hours for me.

 

naturally put cheese ontop when you have it in the bowl and crackers.

Enjoy people! tell me how you like it.

It's nothing fancy, but DAMN does it get the job done!

[Big_Pete 0]

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