Wednesday, 13 October 2010

• Homemade Chili with Homemade Chili Powder

  

  We made some excellent chili tonight! However, we didn't have a pressure cooker, so we made everything from scratch. Enjoy!

  Ingredients

  • 3 pounds stew meat (beef, pork, and/or lamb)
  • 2 teaspoons peanut oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1 (12-ounce) bottle of beer, preferably a medium ale
  • 1 (16-ounce) container salsa
  • 30 tortilla chips
  • 2 Chipotle peppers canned in Adobo sauce, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon Adobo sauce (from the Chipotle peppers in Adobo)
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 1 tablespoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin

   

  Directions
  Place the meat in a large mixing bowl and toss with the peanut oil and salt. Set aside.

  Heat a 6-quart heavy-bottomed pressure cooker over high heat until hot. Add the meat in 3 or 4 batches and brown on all sides, approximately 2 minutes per batch. Once each batch is browned, place the meat in a clean large bowl.

  Once all of the meat is browned, add the beer to the cooker to de-glaze the pot.

  Scrape the browned bits from the bottom of the pot. Add the meat back to the pressure cooker along with the salsa, tortilla chips, chipotle peppers, adobo sauce, tomato paste, chili powder, and ground cumin and stir to combine. Lock the lid in place according to the manufacturer's instructions. When the steam begins to hiss out of the cooker, reduce the heat to low, just enough to maintain a very weak whistle. Cook for 25 minutes. Remove from the heat and carefully release the steam. Serve immediately.

  EXCEPT no Cooker AHEM here we go, we then made the chili powder from scratch!

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  Smells already......

  

  Pork...

  

  

  Lamb, yeah lamb is more bloody, any cook should know this.
  

  

  

  

  Homemade chili powder.
  

   

  

   

  

  Chili powder.
  

  Yum!

  

  ButterBeer! Just kidding, it's actually a glaze to get all the meat off of the pan because its loaded with flavor, no drinking involved, you know me silly gooses.

  

  See, butter beer used to glaze!!!

  

  

  Tomatoes.

  

  In go the beans.

  

  All coming together!

  Talk about homemade CHILI POWDER!

  

  Let it Cook....

  

  Cook, cook, cook, cook.

  

  Looking good, its getting darker...

  

  FIN! CHILI with amazing real peppers inside, not too spicy at all either!!!

  We added Chipotle as well.

  
  

  Do you prefer your chili spicy or mild and with or without beans?
  

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