Tuesday, January 25, 2011

January 9, 2011 Chili with Beans!

Uh oh. I've been so vocal and demonstrative about my views of beans in chili, I'm really in for some teasing from everyone. I love  El Cid chili; but I read an article in the January 2011 Cook's Illustrated that looked delicious; beans or no beans.  My take on the recipe can be found here.

The ingredients; oh yeah. Notice this also has beer!


The intriguing part was that I would make my own chili powder by toasting some chilies and grinding them up in the food processor; then turn it into a paste with some garlic, chicken broth and other stuff. Here the dried chilies are toasting


Yes, it's Ol' Blue again. I love this pot. It gets a big workout in the winter. Here I've made the chili paste and have cooked it down with a lot of pureed onion.


We sautee the meat; add some more liquid (including the beer) and stick it in the oven for a couple of hours until it looks like this:


 This chili is sooooo tender and delicous. I'm still a fan of El Cid more than this but everyone else who tried it loved it. So, I'll make it again.