It's the perfect season for making authentic Texas chili, and this award-winning chili recipe has over 100 5-star reviews on the blog, as well as 30 readers who have won their own local chili cook-offs, using this tried and true Texas recipe.
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I was reading a book of quotes a few years ago and an ex-Texas governor, I disremember who, had this recipe for chili. Get your chili started on the stove. Put a steak on the grill. Throw the chili out. Eat the steak.
ReplyDeleteI always throw in a live armadillo to keep it stirred.
ReplyDeleteLooks pretty good but it's way to hot for chill right now, maybe by Dec it'll be cool enough.
ReplyDeleteJD
Haven't tried brisket. I generally use flank or skirt steak, browned in sausage or bacon grease. Some beer, salsa, hot sauce and bacon usually goes in the pot too. I go easy on the tomatoes to avoid sweet-tasting chili.
ReplyDeleteSimmer it down to the right consistency for an hour or two, adding some corn flour if needed. Stir in some bourbon and let it cool while covered on the stove. (This is important.)
It's even better the next day.
It's good chili if a spoon will stand up in it. It's great chili if the spoon dissolves. Kinda like Cowboy Coffee. Start with good, clear water. Then throw a handful of grounds in the pot along with a horse shoe. Put it on the fire. When the horse shoe floats, it's ready.
ReplyDeleteShe forgot the beans
ReplyDeleteYou should be shot.
DeleteIf you're talking about kidney beans I agree.
DeleteA few Pinto beans is OK.
*ducks*
BEANS, Miguel? Your mom called, she disowned you...Beans? Sure, put beans in it and ITS NOT CHILI ANYMORE.
DeleteYum. Beans. And corn.
DeleteCorn??? WTF?
DeleteI use what is colorfully called (by Bush Beans Co.) chili beans...probably red beans or pintos in seasoning. I realize that would get me shot in Texas, but it's a Tennessee thing, I think...maybe.
DeleteGotta have beans if it's a bowl of chilli, and a few of these 🌶🌶🌶🌶 .....
DeleteOh and crackers
JD
I'd guess she's not making Chili con Carne...
DeleteBeans? BEANS?
DeleteHow to tell when someone just wasn't raised right. I guess it's too late to alert Child Services?
Kenny the beans vs no beans in chilli has always reminded me of the creole/cajun or red vs brown jambalaya. I like both of them. I also like chilli with and without beans.
DeleteLooks good, yes, but Texas chili doesn't have tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteEvery beans argument is dumb. Beans good, beans bad
ReplyDeleteBeans? Why?
ReplyDeleteIt's 5a. I just finished watching and I want a bowl right now. Beans? I figure bean people would want to throw in some nasty assed sour cream or a glob of avacado too.
ReplyDeleteNo, absolutely not on the sour cream or avocado
DeleteJD
I'll add sour cream or avocado on occasion, but then it's a soup and not chili.
DeleteTopping with some fresh shredded cheese and chopped green onions makes a nice finish...
DeleteJD
The old beans-no beans argument. Look: Cook up a mess of pinto beans. Use the enameled Dutch Oven for the chili, the bare one for the beans. Let them both simmer for hours, but not too long, or the chili meat will dry out. Serve them separately, and look away when the Yankee heathens choose to mix them in the same bowl. Only Progressive Democrats try to get between a man and his chili.
ReplyDeleteThe only beans I eat are navy baked beans. Soak em over night then simmer fer a spell. Then add a lb a salt pork that's been cubed and browned, brown sugar, onions, molasses and cider vinegar are the main ingredents. Course a couple cups of bean water. Then bake them. I don't like runny beans. Put some on your plate juice should not run all over the place. I know of topic but I don't put beans in chilli.
ReplyDeleteI make the best black bean and sweet potato chili in West Virginia. A bold claim, but likely true. According to the American Chili Association, this is in fact, a chili.
ReplyDeleteAs for what they eat in Texas :) I like "Sloppy Joe" too. And if they want to call it a chili, it's still a free country, and Texas is still a Republic (if they can keep it).
That tip on using Texas chili powder is a good one. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJpaul
The stuff you put on hotdogs?
ReplyDeleteYes if it doesn't have beans in it, 😂
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