Posted: 3/10/2012 2:14:08 AM EDT
So this is the first time I attempted to make chili. I looked online at a few recipes and at the sticky at the top of the cooking forum. So I took everything and found the general same ingredients and started. I am more of the kind of cook that doesn't use measurements but uses taste, smell and looks on how I cook. So with all of that my first attempt at chili....This is going to have some updates and edits for sure. But as I call them Adam Experiments I think it will turn out just fine 
So here are the ingredients: 
And my trying to figure out my camera: 
And cooking: 
What it looks like after: 
And after 2 hours transfered everything to a crockpot: 
Ingredients: olive oil to brown beef, as much or as little as needed 1.5 lbs of beef serlion cut into 1/2" cubes or 1/4" strips 1.25 lbs of ground beef 12oz of Chorizo sausage beef 1 large red onion 5 cloves of garlic or more 3 jalepeno and 3 serano peppers and 3 random unidentifiable peppers 1 bottle of dark Mexican Beer 1 can of beef stock 2 10 oz cans of Ro-Tel tomatoes and chilies 2 cups of black beans (rinsed & drained) 2 cup of lima beans (rinsed & drained) 4 tbsp of butter Spices: 6 Tablespoons of ancho chili powder 6 chilli powder 2 tablespoon chipotle paste or sauce 1 tablespoon of ground cumin 1 tablespoon of honey Directions: Brown meats, i went with cubed beef, then sausage, then ground beef cook 1 large red onion until soft but not clear add 3 tomatos cubed 6 peppers of your choice crushed garlic times 5 add spices and liquids from here i just put it all in crockpot and its been sitting for 3 hours now. We will see how it turns out. |
| Generally Sounds good. Nice large batch. Some things that are different than what I use, like butter? like not using red kidney beans, but I am a BEANS IN CHILI person, so looks good. Let us know how it was. I am a fan of spicy, but looks like you have a good amount of peppers in there. AAR from the throne! 9/10 |
| well for my first time at chili it turned out damn awesome! I was surprised how everything blended together and it was just hot enough, not too spicy/hot but just how i like it. Many of the other guys liked it at the bbq as well. so all in all not as hard as i thought. cant wait for next time. i started a black bean soup yesterday with left over beans i had, will see how that is tomorrow. |
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IBTTP In before the Texas purists solid 9/10 OP I think it looks really good. Good job with the ingredients, especially the beer (we usually put 2-3 bottles in our chili but OK). Rotel is kind of a cheat but that's cool. My chili is pretty hot so I haven't really gone down the path of the sweet stuff like that honey. The beans? Well, they don't belong and everyone knows they don't belong, but if you put a bowl of that chili in front of me I wouldn't push it away. |