Posted: 10/31/2011 2:34:05 PM EDT
| First of all, I've never made chili, I just eat it whenever the opportunity arrises. Living in Illinois, chili without beans is unheard of and possibly even against the law. Still, for all the arguments I've seen on arfcom over chili with or without beans, I've never tried it without. Tonight, I want to try chili made "the right way", so I think I'm going to have to make it myself. Does anyone have a good chili recipe they would be willing to share; maybe something to use with antelope or venison? I want to see what all the hype is about. |
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Rotel makes a canned chili fixings. All you need to do is pick two up (recipe on the back is for 1lb of meat) and follow the recipe x2. Instead of ground beef get one pound of steak (you can get stew meat or a regular cut if you want to cube it yourself) and one pound of spicy pork sausage. Brown both over medium high heat and then add in the rest of the recipe. Bring to boil, reduce heat, and simmer with lid on for a few hours. Then take the lid off and let it reduce a little. You can add a little corn starch/water slurry to it when you get ready to eat if it's still too thin for your liking. Take a little corn starch, add enough water to make a thin paste, and then stir it into the chili. Bring chili back up to boil, stir well, and remove from heat.
This is a beginner's recipe, but it's good. You can spice it up by adding red chili powder or chilis of your choice. Like all chili, it's better the second day. |
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All of you who think beans go in chili, I don't get it. Beans add:
Thickness. Beans don't add: Flavor An alternative to beans is meat.
Mead adds: Thickness Flavor Manliness Sometimes I think arfcom is really filled with a bunch of vegetarian ninnies. Beans are cheaper than meat and some people are on a budget. |
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All of you who think beans go in chili, I don't get it. Beans add:
Thickness. Beans don't add: Flavor An alternative to beans is meat.
Mead adds: Thickness Flavor Manliness Sometimes I think arfcom is really filled with a bunch of vegetarian ninnies. Beans are cheaper than meat and some people are on a budget. I'm using venison. With tags being about 25 bucks, it works out to about 50 cents a pound. Should I just add more meat since beans cost more? |
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All of you who think beans go in chili, I don't get it. Beans add:
Thickness. Beans don't add: Flavor An alternative to beans is meat.
Mead adds: Thickness Flavor Manliness Sometimes I think arfcom is really filled with a bunch of vegetarian ninnies. Beans are cheaper than meat and some people are on a budget. Beans do add flavor, as I am sure that Mead does. I have never had chili with Mead though. Chili deer, chili antalope, hamburger, yes but never mead. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: All of you who think beans go in chili, I don't get it. Beans add: Thickness. Beans don't add: Flavor An alternative to beans is meat. Mead adds: Thickness Flavor Manliness Sometimes I think arfcom is really filled with a bunch of vegetarian ninnies. Beans are cheaper than meat and some people are on a budget. Beans do add flavor, as I am sure that Mead does. I have never had chili with Mead though. Chili deer, chili antalope, hamburger, yes but never mead. Everything I've ever had with beans in it simply soaked up the flavor of everything else in the pot. Mead and meat is fantastic in chili, btw.
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I'm from IL and I grew up eating chili with beans, but I've since learned the error of my ways. Just search for chili cook-off websites, many of them post the winning recipes. Quoted: "Chili" without beans is just spiced meat.  AV1611 out..... Exactly!  And chili with beans is spiced meat with cheap filler.  |
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First of all, I've never made chili, I just eat it whenever the opportunity arrises. Living in Illinois, chili without beans is unheard of and possibly even against the law. Still, for all the arguments I've seen on arfcom over chili with or without beans, I've never tried it without. Tonight, I want to try chili made "the right way", so I think I'm going to have to make it myself. Does anyone have a good chili recipe they would be willing to share; maybe something to use with antelope or venison? I want to see what all the hype is about. You've been eating chili the 'right' way. It sounds like you want to eat hot dog sauce. |