Chili - Beans or no beans?

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tboo

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I love those liquid chili sauce packets Wendy's gives you when you order chili. I always ask for a bunch & empty them in the chili. Tasty stuff!
 

ElFenix

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Men are from Earth, women are from Venus. Go back to Venus, bitch. And make me a sammich while you're at it.

a bunch of midwesterners are claiming that chili is required to have things like beans, tomatoes, corn, and spinach, and i'm the one from venus?

chili has 3 required ingredients:
dried chile peppers
meat
cumin

that's it.
 

KeithTalent

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a bunch of midwesterners are claiming that chili is required to have things like beans, tomatoes, corn, and spinach, and i'm the one from venus?

chili has 3 required ingredients:
dried chile peppers
meat
cumin

that's it.

That just sounds like you are cooking meat with a rub on it. How is that chili?

KT
 

ElFenix

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That just sounds like you are cooking meat with a rub on it. How is that chili?

KT

it needs liquid, much of which you get from reconstituting the chiles. you'll also want salt. if you want more liquid, add some of that beer you should be drinking.
 

SMOGZINN

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Beans were added to chili because people were too poor to use meat.

The original chili is made by taking the cheapest cuts of beef you can find and boiling them all day with chili peppers, preferably Pequins, until the meat and chili combination is reduced to a paste. Serve with cornbread.
 

DestinyKnight

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The "Chili" most people eat is just beef stew with beans, tomatoes and spices like cumin, cinnamon, and chocolate (the "secret ingredient").

Chile con Carne is simply meat cooked in a soup base of dried red chiles, stock and then thickened with corn flour (masa). Here's how I make it:

Cube 2lbs beef chuck. brown the beef cubes in oil or rendered beef fat then then remove from the pot and set aside.

Take your dried chile pods, remove the stems and grind them into a powder. I like to use a mix of chile negro, pasilla/poblano, ancho, and new mexico red. I use about a dozen chile pods. Grind the pods into a powder with a coffee grinder, mortar & pestle, blender, whatever you have handy. use something with a glass container. if your blender/grinder is plastic it may be difficult to remove the chile flavor from it, so unless you like chile flavored coffee, you might want to avoid using your favorite coffee grinder. I have one dedicated to making chile powder.

heat a large pot with oil or rendered fat, quickly toast the chile powder in the hot oil along with cumin seed if you desire. Don't burn it. add beef and cover with stock. simmer on low heat until the meat is tender. To thicken the liquid, mix a couple tablespoons of masa harina with cold water, then add to the pot, cook for a few more minutes and it should thicken up. Salt and pepper to taste. serve with diced onion, cilantro, avacado, sour cream, etc.
 

QueBert

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The "Chili" most people eat is just beef stew with beans, tomatoes and spices like cumin, cinnamon, and chocolate (the "secret ingredient").

Chile con Carne is simply meat cooked in a soup base of dried red chiles, stock and then thickened with corn flour (masa). Here's how I make it:

Cube 2lbs beef chuck. brown the beef cubes in oil or rendered beef fat then then remove from the pot and set aside.

Take your dried chile pods, remove the stems and grind them into a powder. I like to use a mix of chile negro, pasilla/poblano, ancho, and new mexico red. I use about a dozen chile pods. Grind the pods into a powder with a coffee grinder, mortar & pestle, blender, whatever you have handy. use something with a glass container. if your blender/grinder is plastic it may be difficult to remove the chile flavor from it, so unless you like chile flavored coffee, you might want to avoid using your favorite coffee grinder. I have one dedicated to making chile powder.

heat a large pot with oil or rendered fat, quickly toast the chile powder in the hot oil along with cumin seed if you desire. Don't burn it. add beef and cover with stock. simmer on low heat until the meat is tender. To thicken the liquid, mix a couple tablespoons of masa harina with cold water, then add to the pot, cook for a few more minutes and it should thicken up. Salt and pepper to taste. serve with diced onion, cilantro, avacado, sour cream, etc.

This is Chili!

/thread
 

nageov3t

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why get angry over this? who cares what other people like to eat?

my usual chili recipe contains beans, onions, tomatoes, lime zest, and tequila.
 

QueBert

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why get angry over this? who cares what other people like to eat?

my usual chili recipe contains beans, onions, tomatoes, lime zest, and tequila.

I don't give 2 shits what other people like to eat, but when I order Chili Fries and get beans I want to stab someone. There should be a law passed that anywhere that serves chili should have to include "with beans" I can't count how many times I've asked, was told "no beans" and the shit ended up having beans.
 

ElFenix

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Chile con Carne is simply meat cooked in a soup base of dried red chiles, stock and then thickened with corn flour (masa). Here's how I make it:

Cube 2lbs beef chuck. brown the beef cubes in oil or rendered beef fat then then remove from the pot and set aside.

Take your dried chile pods, remove the stems and grind them into a powder. I like to use a mix of chile negro, pasilla/poblano, ancho, and new mexico red. I use about a dozen chile pods. Grind the pods into a powder with a coffee grinder, mortar & pestle, blender, whatever you have handy. use something with a glass container. if your blender/grinder is plastic it may be difficult to remove the chile flavor from it, so unless you like chile flavored coffee, you might want to avoid using your favorite coffee grinder. I have one dedicated to making chile powder.

heat a large pot with oil or rendered fat, quickly toast the chile powder in the hot oil along with cumin seed if you desire. Don't burn it. add beef and cover with stock. simmer on low heat until the meat is tender. To thicken the liquid, mix a couple tablespoons of masa harina with cold water, then add to the pot, cook for a few more minutes and it should thicken up. Salt and pepper to taste. serve with diced onion, cilantro, avacado, sour cream, etc.

needs cumin. cumin is an essential tex mex spice. and fritos for garnish. otherwise, pretty much this.
 
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