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- From: bandy@lll-crg (Andrew Scott Beals)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Chili
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- Date: 4 Jul 86 03:36:36 GMT
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- Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHILI-3 M "13 Mar 86" 1986
- .RZ "ANDY BEALS' CHILI" "Andy's own recipe for meat/bean chili"
- This is the descendant of the chili that I've been making since 1974.
- .IH "12 cups" "3 liters"
- .IG "5 cups" "canned beans" "1.3 kg"
- (drained)
- .IG "6 cups" "stewed tomatoes" "1.5 kg"
- .IG "2 lbs" "beef," "1 kg"
- cut into bite-sized pieces and browned. Don't use ground beef.
- .IG "2" "garlic cloves,"
- chopped
- .IG "3" "medium jalapeno peppers,"
- cut up
- .IG "2" "green bell peppers,"
- diced
- .IG "1 or 2" "medium onions,"
- diced
- .IG "1 bottle" "flavorful beer"
- .IG "2 Tbsp" "cumin" "30 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "paprika" "10 ml"
- .IG "1 tsp" "cayenne pepper" "5 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Saut\z\(aae the meat and onions. You may do it in the same pan that you
- are going to put the chili in. The meat should be brown on the
- outside, but you don't have to cook it much at this time.
- .SK 2
- Drain the fat from the beef.
- .SK 3
- Put everything in a big pot over low heat (a slow cooker is handy)
- and stir together.
- .SK 4
- Wait half an hour to an hour and check the flavor of the soupy base.
- Adjust as you see fit. Perhaps add more beer, hot peppers, or
- spices. Repeat as necessary.
- .SK 5
- Wait as long as you can, stirring occasionally. You may eat it when
- the beans and beef are soft. Serve with bread, fresh-baked
- biscuits or cornbread.
- .NX
- This is best if it has cooked at least overnight. Generally it's
- ready for consumption after about three hours. If you can't turn
- your stove down to a very low heat, you're bound to burn the bottom
- of the chili a little, but as long as you don't scrape it off, it
- will taste okay. Slow-cookers are great in this regard!
- .PP
- At the three
- hour mark, the chili is somewhat soupy. If you want it to thicken
- up, turn up the heat a bit and let it boil off the excess water.
- While doing this, stir every few minutes or you may burn the bottom!
- .PP
- I change the proportions of ingredients (double the beef,
- drop the beans, add LOTS more cumin) all the time; this recipe is
- just a general guideline.
- The amount of garlic given in the recipe is very conservative.
- Garbanzo beans (chick peas) are nice, but they take a lot longer
- to cook. Making it with
- lamb or Italian sausage instead of beef is also interesting. Cherry
- peppers instead of jalapeno peppers are very nice also.
- .PP
- Do not use wimpy American beer! I have found
- that Moosehead adds a good flavor, and I bet that Anchor Steam will
- too.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes preparation, 3 hours cooking.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Andrew Scott Beals
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore Ca
- bandy@lll-crg.arpa, {ihnp4,pyramid,seismo,topaz,ll-xn}!lll-crg!bandy
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