Last year some punk from Texas derided my chili because I had beans in it. To prove I can make a real Texas style chili with no fillers, I have developed the following recipe:
1 lb steak chopped
1 lb pork sausage
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp kosher salt*
4 tsp chili powder*
4 roasted jalapeño peppers
2 roasted habanero peppers (if you want)
One finely chopped onion
2 cloves of garlic
29 oz beef broth
15 oz tomato sauce
1 tbsp cocoa
2 tsp Cholula hot sauce*
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp garlic powder*
*add to taste, a variance of plus or minus a tsp is allowed.
Cook steak under low heat adding half the chili powder and salt. In a hot pan with the oil, sauté onions and garlic add the other half of the salt and chili powder. In a separate pan cook your sausage. Using a food processor purée the onion, garlic and peppers, add some beef broth to make it smooth. Add the puréed mix to the steak, also add the tomato and the rest of the broth, and all the other ingredients. Cook for another 40 min.
Here is my original recipe; also Rich Tatum has one that looks good.
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3 comments:
As a chili cook for some thirty-odd years, and a chilihead on top of that; and having competed coast to coast and border to border in a variety of chili cookoffs, including Terlingua and many other national and world championships, I must say that your new recipe might be pretty tasty, but don't try it in a chili cookoff: the pork sausage and steak combination, plus the Cholula, would have you eliminated quickly! (hint....get some chuck tender at Wal-Mart, or some tri-tip at Reasor's and give them a try....and maybe some powder from Leona's)
Well I never said it was competition style...I was going for a chili that wasn't sacreligious.
I know that chili is a sacred thang, but the only sacrilegious part of it might be No Chili At All!! That is, it's all good, but some of it is better. And, one time while judging chili, I came across one that tasted as if it had been flavored with a greasy, charred, paper bag. That's one of the few I have had to turn down!
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