Easy Texas Chili

[Camper John]

1 lb. of 90/10 hamburger
1 lb. of unseasoned sausage
1 box of Carroll Shelby Chili spice mix
1 medium size jar of Pace Chunky Salsa
1 8 oz. can of tomato paste
1 14 oz. can of diced tomatoes
Brown the meat
Add the spice packets
Stir while browning
Add the Salsa and Tomato products
Bring to a boil, then reduce to simmer for 20-30 min.
Use the Masa packet to thicken to taste.
Use the Dark red spice packet sparingly to taste
Kidney beans can be added but don't tell anybody from Texas

Makes enough for 4-6 and freezes for reheat if any leftover

[hydrope]

If you add the beans, don't cross the line into Texas! What a sin!!


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[Mrs Evans]

I keep hearing about what a no-no it is in Texas to add beans to chili but gosh darn I was born here and I love adding beans to my chili. I suppose maybe I wasn't raised right, lol! 😜

[Mrs Evans]

My recipe is similar but I use Rotel instead of Pace and I prefer black beans instead of kidney beans, I add green chilies and mix my own spices. 😊

[CSMRetired]

Two things you can't / don't do

1) Live in Oklahoma and make Texas chili (unless you were born in Texas and moved to Oklahoma)

2) The "Cardinal" sin of making chili is putting beans in it

[Mrs Evans]

I'm definitely a sinner 😛

[steelpony5555]

Nope, no beans allowed.....use any kind of meat known to man from snakes to buffalo but no beans.....

[Mrs Evans]

And I placed second at my company chili cookoff

To be fair I do live in Houston, maybe that's not considered true Texas? I don't know, all I know is what I like to eat

[WFD]

But chili without beans just simply is not chili!!!! Then it just becomes some sort of thick hamburger soup!!

[lesptr]

Originally Posted by WFD

But chili without beans just simply is not chili!!!! Then it just becomes some sort of thick hamburger soup!!

+1

[mud yapster]

I put beans in my chili guess I haven't heard that about my Texas chili. No one has ever complained about my chili except make more next time. LOL

[daveclark]

Ok for a true bowl of Texas Red I use this recipe and make variations of it. It's called Bad Attitude Chili from a BBQ and/or chilehead list I was on in the last century.

• 2 lbs pork roast -- cut into 1" pieces
• 2 lbs cheap ground beef -- (You'll need the fat. This isn't health food.)
• 1/2 cup GOOD chile powder -- (Your local supermarket brand tastes like cardboard.)
• 1 HUGE onion -- roughly chopped
• 1 head garlic -- minced
• 8 New Mexican green chiles -- roasted, peeled, seeded, chopped.
• 1 Tbl hot Hungarian paprika -- (This is legal. Paprika is a chile.)
• 1 Tbl ground cumin
• 4 beef bouillon cubes
• 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes -- (Don't worry. You won't even know they are there.)
• 1 bottle amber Mexican beer -- (Dos Equiis, Noche Buena, or any Oktoberfest will do.)
• 1/4 cup bourbon -- (This is one of those things that just happened.)
• 2 squares bitter baker's chocolate -- (Not as weird as it sounds.)
• salt to taste

Saute 1/4 of the garlic and onions until translucent.
Add 1/4 of the meat, chile powder and brown.
Salt the meat while cooking. Put into your chili pot. Cast iron is best.
Repeat until all the meat is done.
Put the rest of the ingredients in your chili pot and simmer for an hour.
As in any recipe, the amount of ingredients is variable. Add more of anything you want, especially chiles.

Most of the time I use Penzeys chili seasoning and canned Hatch diced green chiles. It's a lot of labor to peel those things and I like a lot in mine.

[Mrs Evans]

Originally Posted by daveclark

Ok for a true bowl of Texas Red I use this recipe and make variations of it. It's called Bad Attitude Chili from a BBQ and/or chilehead list I was on in the last century.

• 2 lbs pork roast -- cut into 1" pieces
• 2 lbs cheap ground beef -- (You'll need the fat. This isn't health food.)
• 1/2 cup GOOD chile powder -- (Your local supermarket brand tastes like cardboard.)
• 1 HUGE onion -- roughly chopped
• 1 head garlic -- minced
• 8 New Mexican green chiles -- roasted, peeled, seeded, chopped.
• 1 Tbl hot Hungarian paprika -- (This is legal. Paprika is a chile.)
• 1 Tbl ground cumin
• 4 beef bouillon cubes
• 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes -- (Don't worry. You won't even know they are there.)
• 1 bottle amber Mexican beer -- (Dos Equiis, Noche Buena, or any Oktoberfest will do.)
• 1/4 cup bourbon -- (This is one of those things that just happened.)
• 2 squares bitter baker's chocolate -- (Not as weird as it sounds.)
• salt to taste

Saute 1/4 of the garlic and onions until translucent.
Add 1/4 of the meat, chile powder and brown.
Salt the meat while cooking. Put into your chili pot. Cast iron is best.
Repeat until all the meat is done.
Put the rest of the ingredients in your chili pot and simmer for an hour.
As in any recipe, the amount of ingredients is variable. Add more of anything you want, especially chiles.

Most of the time I use Penzeys chili seasoning and canned Hatch diced green chiles. It's a lot of labor to peel those things and I like a lot in mine.

Awesome recipe! I would just add black beans, LOL!!!

In all seriousness, this recipe is inspiring me to make a few mods to my own :thumbup:

[grayfox]

Got to have onions and green pepper and just a little bay leaf ???

[daveclark]

Originally Posted by Mrs Evans

Awesome recipe! I would just add black beans, LOL!!!

In all seriousness, this recipe is inspiring me to make a few mods to my own :thumbup:

At the end of the page I linked it says:

"To bean or not to bean? That is the question for people that like to discuss things like the meaning of life. Or how many angels can do the Cotton Eyed Joe on the head of a pin. Or is there a limit to Deion $anders' ego. If you are going to bean, pintos and black are good. Kidney beans are a sin."

i don't bean but I don't look down at those that do, I just avoid the downwind side of those that do!

I get a lot of comments about tasting chocolate in it, i never do but some folks do. As most chili and stews go, the longer it simmers the better it gets!

[BamaBob]

Originally Posted by Mrs Evans

My recipe is similar but I use Rotel instead of Pace and I prefer black beans instead of kidney beans, I add green chilies and mix my own spices. ��

GREEN CHILIE?! Now you're talking! You're my kind of lady!


Come to think of it, I'll post my Green Chilie Stew recipe.

[Mrs Evans]

Originally Posted by daveclark

At the end of the page I linked it says:

"To bean or not to bean? That is the question for people that like to discuss things like the meaning of life. Or how many angels can do the Cotton Eyed Joe on the head of a pin. Or is there a limit to Deion $anders' ego. If you are going to bean, pintos and black are good. Kidney beans are a sin."

i don't bean but I don't look down at those that do, I just avoid the downwind side of those that do!

I get a lot of comments about tasting chocolate in it, i never do but some folks do. As most chili and stews go, the longer it simmers the better it gets!

Haha! Beans or no beans, there will be gas, lol! But I'm glad to know that since I do use beans, that at least black beans are acceptable

I still say use whatever floats your boat and when it comes to chili, you very well might be able to, hehehe

Can't wait to try out the chocolate idea

[Mrs Evans]

Originally Posted by BamaBob

GREEN CHILIE?! Now you're talking! You're my kind of lady!


Come to think of it, I'll post my Green Chilie Stew recipe.

I saw your recipe, it sounds fantastic! Love me some green chilies, yum yum! :thumbup: