Friday, February 15, 2013

This Chili Is A Symbol Of Texas

By Kevin Lindsay


I was provided the following recipe long ago while touring El Paso and I have recently been focusing on mastering it into the greatest Texas Chili that You'll ever consume. True Texas Chili isn't made together with beans however, you can add beans in case you must. If you add beans use canned kidney beans and clean them off nicely just before You add them to the pot in the last 30 minutes or so of cooking time. If I would add beans to this chili I'd clean four, fourteen to fifteen ounces of kidney beans and add them to the chili in the last 30 mins of cooking time.

This is a really rich chili and it makes a chili that can be enjoyed with corn bread or you can put this chii on hamburgers or hotdogs. It also goes really well on homemade chili cheese fries.

The very first chili was probably made around 1800 or a little later somewhere out on Texas cattle drive. Chili was first made to use up the tougher cuts of beef and then before you knew it chili spread all over the United States and then all over the world.

In this chili recipe We're going to use dried chili peppers, chili powder, and cumin for a delicious flavor combination that you won't soon forget. You want to take Your dried chili peppers and remove the steams as you don't want them in your chili. Wear plastic kitchen gloves and crumble your chili peppers up once you have removed the steams.

West Texas Chili Ingredients:

1. 10 Small dried chili peppers with stems removed and crumbled up.

2. Two pounds beef brisket cut into once inch cubes.

3. One pound ground beef.

4. One pound ground pork.

5. Two tablespoons minced fresh garlic.

6. One half cup chili powder.

7. One fourth cup ground cumin.

8. One tablespoon ground sea salt.

9. One tablespoon ground black pepper.

10. Two twenty eight once cand diced tomatoes.

11. Two six ounce cans tomato paste.

12. One large red sweet onion diced

13. One teaspoon dried oregano.

14. Six cups apple juice.

You will want to start out by browning all your meat, onions, and garlic until the meat is all very brown. Don't let your meat or veggies burn. Start out with the meat in a little vegetable oil and get it almost brown before you add onions and garlic. Once the onions and garlic are done drain the meat well and then pour everything in the skillet into a large stock pot.

Add in all the rest of your ingredients and start the heat off on medium. You want to cook the chili slow never letting it boil. Stir the pot of chili often being sure that you stir up from the bottom of the pot so the chili doesn't get the chance to stick.

You want to cook this chili for three to four hours on medium and you want it to cook down and thicken slightly. This is one of the most important steps when making chili. Especially really good chili like this West Texas Chili. Just a reminder again - if you're going to add the beans add the in the last thirty minutes of cooking time.

Enjoy the meal!




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