We stayed home for Thanksgiving. It was nice weekend just the three of us and in the tradition of Thanksgiving, we needed to make something that would give us a lot of leftovers. I didn’t really want to tackle a turkey again so we went with chili. I say we because Joshua helped A LOT with this since I have never made chili before and we weren’t using a recipe. It turned out delicious! Here is our chili recipe.
Heres what we used:
- 2 28oz cans of crushed tomatoes
- 2 little cans of tomato paste
- 1lbs. ground sirlion
- 1lbs. ground mild italian sausage
- 1/2 package of bacon
- 2 poblano peppers, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 can black beans, drained
- 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
- 1/4 of a garlic bulb chopped
- 4 large basil leaves chopped
- a lot of chili powder
- a lot of oregano
- black pepper
- salt
- powered mustard
- celery salt
- tarragon
- some beer
- cheese
- put crushed tomatoes and tomato paste in a big pot, and put it on the stove to simmer
- I then cooked the meat in a skillet, I seasoned the sirloin with red and black pepper, salt and chili powder while it browned, then I cooked the sausage, followed with the bacon, and then put it all in the pot with the crushed tomatoes
- leaving a little bit of the bacon grease in the pan, I sautéed the peppers, onions, and garlic a little bit to get them to soften and sweeten just a bit but still leaving them with a crunch to them, and put it all in the pan
- add the basil to the chili and stir to combine it all
- add some beer, we used an ale, probably about 6oz, but it’s really up to the person making it, but too much, will make it runny
- then it was time to season the chili, which consisted of throwing a lot of spices in it and tasting it until we liked it
- we left it to simmer, covered, for a few hours, stirring occasionally
- when it was time to eat, we topped it with some shredded colby jack, but cheddar would be good on it too
It ended up having just a little bit of a kick to it, well in my opinion it did, but I don’t handle spicy food too well, but it was amazing! It was nice to eat chili on this chilly weekend. 🙂 It’s thick enough to make a chili dog, or what I did when it got a bit too spicy for me, scoop a cracker into it and eat it that way.
Definitely had enough leftovers to last and some to even freeze for other chilly winter days!