Hearty Chili with Cannellini Beans (was unable to post to Recipe Center)
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 chopped onions 1 green bell pepper, chopped fine (added later) 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin 2 pounds ground beef 1/4 cup chili powder 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder 1 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes 4 cups beef stock 2 cans cannellini beans, drained cayenne pepper to taste if more heat is desired
How to make it: Heat olive oil in a large pot and saute onions until soft and tender. Add oregano and cumin and stir. Add ground beef and cook until no longer pink. Stir in chili powder, salt, cocoa, bay leaves and cinnamon. Add crushed tomatoes, broth and chopped green bell pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer about 45 minutes. Add the beans and simmer until heated through.
*Note--if the beef is fatty, I skim off the fat as it cooks. It is spicy enough for us with the 1/4 cup chili powder but if you like a lot of heat, add cayenne. You can add toppings be we like it just as is. Great leftovers, freezes well.
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Sounds great. Chili powder is a black dot avoid for me in Swami. I assume if I dry and grind my own compliant peppers, I can make my own compliant chili powder, no? Does anyone know if there's something specifically in commercially prepared "chili powder" that's problematic?
*Note--if the beef is fatty, I skim off the fat as it cooks. It is spicy enough for us with the 1/4 cup chili powder but if you like a lot of heat, add cayenne. You can add toppings be we like it just as is. Great leftovers, freezes well.
One cooking option, to avoid having to skim off excess fat, is to cook the meat first and then drain it in a colander or other strainer/sieve. Saute vegetables next and add cooked meat to veggies once they're done enough for your taste.
...if I dry and grind my own compliant peppers, I can make my own compliant chili powder, no? Does anyone know if there's something specifically in commercially prepared "chili powder" that's problematic?
If you have compliant peppers, you can use them... All peppers are avoid for me, so I would have to stick with Cumin and Cilantro for the "Chili" flavor... Not perfect, but I'll take it...
I also need to use turkey, rather than beef and beet/carrot rather than tomato... Now that I've totally remade the recipe, enjoy...
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Any good chili recipes that are good for both Os and Bs? My SWAMI is a combo of O and Gatherer, and Gatherers can be Os or Bs, so pretty much anything I can't eat is already an avoid for either Os or Bs.
Or should I just play around with what I can find in my kitchen and then post my recipe when I'm done?
Maybe I'll make meatloaf tonight and try chili another time.
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