Homemade Chili
Homemade Chili Author: Rachel - A Southern Fairytale
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Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground sirloin yes, sirloin. You can use ground round but use lean
- 3 14.5 oz cans of chili style tomatoes
- 1 32 oz can of tomato sauce
- 5 Tbsp chili powder
- 1 Tbsp cumin
- dash salt
- 4 cloves of garlic chopped
- 1/2 of an onion chopped (optional)
- couple of dashes of red pepper flakes
- 1 bag of those little vine ripened tomatoes quartered or halved
Instructions
- Brown the meat with a few dashes of cumin, chili powder and red pepper
- Saute the onion and garlic in about 1 Tbsp olive oil until the onions are translucent.
- Drain any fat from the meat
- Combine all ingredients into your pot.
- Bring to a boil for 10 minutes, stirring frequently
- Turn down to a low simmer and leave for 6+ hours. (Like any stew or sauce… this gets better the longer it simmers) stirring occasionally.
- After 4 hours it’s okay to taste and then adjust seasonings to your palate. If you like it spicy: add some cayenne pepper, red pepper and more chili powder. You can even add dried, chopped chili peppers.
- Add more garlic or cumin. This is one of those take and run with it recipes.
Notes
I LOVE spicy chili but this is my basic (don’t know the guest’s palate well) recipes. It pleases all palates and is fabulous the following ways.
~ Frito Pie
~ topped with cheese and onions
~ served over crumbled cornbread and topped with cheese.
There are tons of different ways to serve this. (but we don’t serve it over noodles here) ;-)
(you can add kidney beans, but Chili is the official dish of Texas and officially there damn well not better be beans in there) LOL.
~ Frito Pie
~ topped with cheese and onions
~ served over crumbled cornbread and topped with cheese.
There are tons of different ways to serve this. (but we don’t serve it over noodles here) ;-)
(you can add kidney beans, but Chili is the official dish of Texas and officially there damn well not better be beans in there) LOL.