Some friends at
work put together a little chili contest. I made the chili I learned from my Dad. This is such a versatile recipe. In its basic form, it is stewed tomatoes, kidney beans, ground meat and chili seasoning package. I inherited this base class to build the public Chile Chili. The name is to highlight the extra chilies used in the recipe. (
Alton Brown had a terrific
Good Eats episode on chiles).
Here is the recipe I used for the contest
2 cans kidney beans, not drained
1 can garbanzo beans, drained because the beans were soaked in some yucky looking oil
1 can black beans, drained because I didn’t want the black to discolor my beautiful red
5 cans stewed tomatoes, but I could have added two more. Add more to make it soupier.
2 packages chili seasoning
1 lb ground turkey
Black pepper, coarse
Olive oil
1 chopped small onion
4 sausage links. I cut two links into very thin disc. The other two I removed the skin and chopped it up. We bought "Habanero & Green Chile" from
Aidells
3 cloves pressed garlic
1 can green chilies
Peanut butter
Saltine crackers
Add all the cans to the crock pot. Stir in the seasoning packages.
Cook the turkey with the pepper and chop it into little yummy pieces. Drain any remaining fat, but since it is turkey there probably won’t be very much. I actually let the fat boil out. Stir the turkey into the crock.
Use some olive oil and cook the onion until clear (about 4 minutes). Add the sausage and cook through. Make sure the sausage is cooked before continuing. Add the garlic and chilies. Cook through. I let it go for quite awhile to work out the water from the chilies, also letting some of the chilies darken. Stir the sausage mix into the crock.
Last step: cook it! As you can see, I use a crock pot to slow cook this object. I started it Wednesday morning on low and turned it off after work. Now you can eat it. I recommend sampling it through out the day because you taste the flavor change. When I eat my chili, I put peanut butter on a bunch of crackers and then mix it into my bowl of chili. Mmmmm. That is good eats.
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