New Years Chili Recipes

Steps:

• Fry bacon in a heavy pot.
• Remove and reserve bacon.
• Brown the meat and garlic in the bacon fat. For best results, move to a cast iron skillet.
• Saute onions in stock pot until soft.
• Add the meat, bacon, chilis, spices, sauces, jalapenos, beer, tomatoes and paste.
• Simmer for two hours.
• Add remaining ingredients during cooking, as you check and stir.
• Make sure last ingredients are added with at least one hour of cooking time remaining.
• For best results, allow chili to sit in the refrigerator for 24 hours to give the spices a chance to intensify. It is ok to serve off the stove (suggest a bread bowl!), but it is almost always better as leftovers.
• Caution: freezing and reheating will effect the quality. It will still be good, but not the same.

Steps:

• 1. Brown the sausage and ground beef together. Rinse in hot water to remove excess fat. If you like your meat to be finer, process in food processor. Otherwise, place in crock pot.
• 2. Add chili beans with liquid to crock pot. Rinse black eye peas and place in crock pot with tomato sauce. Add chili powder to taste.
• 3. Heat in crock pot until thoroughly hot. Serve over cooked pasta(we use angel hair pasta), Fritos or with crackers. Have grated cheddar cheese, sour cream, sliced black olives, and jalapeno peppers to dress your pasta up! Enjoy for good luck in the New Year!

Steps:

• Brown ground pork and bratwurst until cooked through. Remove from pan.
• Cook onion, red pepper, garlic and jalapeno until softened, about 3 minutes.
• Place pork, bratwurst, vegetables, black-eyed peas, tomatoes, beer, chicken broth and spices into slow cooker.
• Cook on low for 7-8 hours, or on high for 3-4 hours.
• Add tomato paste if chili seems thin.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat; cook and stir onion, bell pepper, Anaheim pepper, jalapeno peppers, and garlic in the hot oil until softened.
• Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir beef in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; add Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder. Crumble bouillon cubes over beef and add beer. Continue to cook , scraping any browned bits from the bottom of the skillet, until liquid is hot, about 3 minutes. Stir beef mixture into pepper mixture.
• Stir crushed tomatoes, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and wine to the beef mixture. Season with chili powder, 2 tablespoons cumin, brown sugar, pepper sauce, basil, paprika, salt, oregano, and black pepper. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer until meat and vegetables are very tender and flavors have developed in the chili, about 90 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Mix kidney beans into beef and vegetables. Continue to simmer until beans are hot, about 30 minutes more.
• Blend sour cream, cilantro, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon cumin in a food processor until smooth. Serve sour cream mixture with chili.